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Old 07-30-2016, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by UpNorth View Post
Looking for a skilled person to do some light shrub pruning around my Gardenia. Not a big job, but DO NOT WANT someone to just come over with a power hedge clipper and do a horizontal amputation into square shapes (which will eventually kill your shrubs). Looking for a more "natural", controlled appearance. Does anyone know of someone that uses true pruning skills rather than a fast haircut?
Dear UpNorth: for what it worth when we first moved here my better half reprimanded me because I wanted to use hedge clippers and not prune our shrubs as we did Up North. Well it took almost three years when she finally realized that Florida has a 12 month growing season which has prompted her laments of "clip those suckers bare" and we have them cut low and shaped them and they keeping growing and growing and growing and ..........