How to Prune Evergreen Magnolias - Part 1

good day welcome to I cultivate my name's Steve today we're going to be looking at pruning this [Music] Magnolia this Magnolia is a magnolia that prunes very well and very easily it's an evergreen Magnolia and it's known for its very uh quite leathery type leaves and beautiful waxy um flowers it's very closely related to the um Double Gum Magnolia which is also known as the port wine Magnolia and you will get a nice beautiful scent from this flower as well despite the fact that it is quite small now ultimately the shape that we want from this Magnolia will be quite a round um shape not as high because as you can see it's currently covering some windows and from these windows we would have a beautiful view if the Magnolia was not covering them so what we want to achieve is this beautiful Magnolia being just above the bottom part of the windows for this job I'm going to use loppers and I'm going to start by selecting the main leaders and taking them out to the height that we want once I've got them out I can then step back have a look at it and see how I might then be able to form the shape that we're looking for so with the main stems removed what I'm now going to do is to start shaping it into the shape um that ultimately we want to achieve and I'm only going to use a plain old pair of secur for this task um because what's left is really not big enough to Warrant using the loppers so let's get this done we now have this Magnolia pruned to roughly the shape and size um that ultimately we are going to want as the month's progress we're going to find that it will thicken up we'll get new growth and the way in which it looks currently is going to improve even more so we're going to come back and have a look at this Magnolia in the months ahead so that you can see the way it is progressed as a result of this pruning now I hope you've enjoyed this video can I ask you you please to go down to the thumbs up and give us a thumbs up subscribe to this Channel and go to our website I cultivate Donnet and become a member of the community thanks for watching [Music]