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The Garden Shop offers Professional Tips & Advice on how to Prune & Care for your Garden Trees & Fruit Trees. Apr 20, A vigorous and easy-to-grow shrub, the pheasant berry (Leycesteria formosa) should be kept in check by hard pruning it in spring. Reduce all of the previous year’s growth to a framework of branches, close to the base of the plant.

This will encourage strong new growth and produce a more attractive shape. Birds will love the berries, bushfelling.bar: BBC Gardeners' World Magazine. The Pheasant Bush, Leycesteria formosa, is usually pruned in the spring. Remove any old, thick shoots, cutting them back to ground level. Also cut out any thin, weak shoots and congested stems to prevent overcrowding.

Feed with a general fertiliser such as Growmore or Pelleted Chicken Manure after pruning.

J Do not Prune in July.

The flowers are a magnet for bees and the berries attract many species of bird, including blackbird and pheasant. Grow Leycesteria formosa in moist but well-drained soil in full sun to partial shade.

It can be pruned back hard if desired. How to grow Leycesteria formosaEstimated Reading Time: 50 secs. Forsythia is pruned directly after flowering by cutting out flowered shoots to just above a healthy bud or side shoot, whilst pruning remove approx 1/3 of old woody stems to just above ground level. Cutting Forsythia back hard to keep it in a confined space can result in a mass of leaf and very little flower.

Red stem, berry and leaf. You can cut back lightly each time after the blooming in order to induce branching out. Reduce and balance out the branches at the end of winter or at the very beginning of spring to promote flowering. Leycesteria is resistant to most diseases and thus shouldn’t cause you any issues from that point of bushfelling.barted Reading Time: 1 min.