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Pruning advice is always a top question for the RHS Members’ Advice Service.  Few people have plants that look like those in books and if plants have been pruned heavily in the past or have been neglected or both, it is easy to understand why gardeners should be unsure what to do.
 
Before digital cameras, pruning advice was a tad frustrating. Describing both plants and pruning in words is difficult and informative pictures were harder to take.  But now that members can easily take good pictures that can be emailed to the advice office, pruning advice is pleasure for us and, we hope, gardeners.

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We answered 371 questions from 233 people last week, by letter, email, phone and visitors to the Members’ Advisory Centre in the plant centre at Wisley.  This a very quiet week by our standards, even for January, but we often find that better weather is needed to spark people's interest in gardening.

Top Ten Enquiries were: 

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Although the Wisley-based  RHS gardening advice service receives relatively few enquiries in January there is still much to do.  By April we will be very busy indeed and to get ready for the rush we are updating and extending our advisory problem profiles and checking suppliers, particularly of pesticides as these tend to change frequently, and gardeners are unsure what insecticides, fungicides or weedkillers are available. 

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