Winter Sun and Cloud-Pruned Hedges
Outstanding Gardens Hobart spends most weeks in the usual Hobart suburbs, but every so often a job takes us further out — like this recent hedge trimming and pruning day on a hillside property in the Coal River Valley, near Richmond, with the vines rolling away below and the water catching the light beyond them.
I love these winter days in Hobart where the sun is shining, it is still and clear. It almost makes the cold worth it! The last of the season's gold still clinging to the vine rows in the valley made it a spectacular day at the office.
Winter is the right time for structural hedge work
It's easy to assume garden work stops in winter. For hedges, it's close to the opposite:
Plants are dormant, so a harder structural cut causes far less stress than the same cut mid-growing-season.
True shape is easier to see without a flush of new growth blurring the lines — important on rounded, cloud-pruned forms like these, where the whole point is a clean, uniform silhouette rather than a straight edge.
It gets the garden ahead of spring, so the hedges are already in shape when growth picks up again, rather than playing catch-up later.
The job
This one was rounded hedge and shrub shaping. The kind of organic, cloud-pruned form that takes a steadier hand than a straight hedge line, since there's no fence or string line to cut to. Each shrub gets shaped by eye, working around the group as a whole so the overall line stays even rather than each piece being trimmed in isolation.
Are you located just outside of Hobart?
Outstanding Gardens Hobart provides garden maintenance, hedge trimming and pruning, mulching, landscaping and garden refresh across Sandy Bay, Kingston, Blackmans Bay, Taroona, Mount Nelson, West Hobart and greater Hobart. For larger properties or specialty work like this — including out toward the Coal River Valley — get in touch and we'll let you know if it's a good fit.
Got a hedge that needs shape before spring?Get a free quote — no job too small, and no property too far out to ask.
