After winter – before budding: The right time to cut many trees is the forsythia blossom. Basically, all winter flowers are only after flowering, so cut in early spring. The then growing in the next growing season branches carry the flower buds for the next year. The winter jasmine should be regularly lighted by removing too close shoots. A slight pruning in the spring, every two to three years, promotes flowering. Even in the snow heather (Erica carnea), a slight pruning after flowering stimulates the formation of new flowering flowers.

Even shrubs that still bear the old foliage, are now cut back. Roses, fruit trees and ornamental shrubs, but also hedges, which are cut back before sprouting, drive harder, bloom more beautiful and bear more fruit. Attention: In the spring flowering shrubs may not be cut now but after flowering.