Whether you have evergreen, deciduous, or conifer hedges as part of your backyard ideas, there are simple guidelines to ensure you prune them at the right time of year. Let us help clear things up ...

With the days getting warmer and spring now here, it's the last chance to complete certain gardening jobs, including pruning.

However all shrubs benefit from shortening any excessively long shoots and cutting out weak or damaged growth. Deciduous shrubs are more likely to need pruning into shape; this is known as ...

Where possible, choose shrubs that hold their own during hot summers and cold winters. Chubby sprays of lilac-purple blooms float over the deciduous foliage from early summer to mid-autumn.

We test each hedge trimmer on conifers, deciduous, laurel and privet hedges, seeing how long it takes and how easy it is to use. With cordless hedge trimmers, we also check how long the battery lasts ...