Different types of pruning are suitable for different purposes and plants. Here are some tips for shaping landscape bushes.
The prerequisite for getting the best performance from your landscaping shrubs and bushes is to be clear about their precise design role they are to play in the garden. Are they to serve as a screen, a backdrop to some special feature, are they to be grown to provide color and fruit, or is a particular specimen to be given a special role such as being limbed up into a small tree, or perhaps grown horizontally on a wall, in the espalier fashion?