Can I prune a 20ft Ceoanothus tree ?
By Daisyboots
United Kingdom 
My Ceoanothus is 20 years old, I think it was called skylark and was damaged losing a branch in the heavy snow, can I tey to re-shape it?
26 May, 2009
Answers
It is normal to trim back after flowering to keep it in shape. They are tempremental plants and who knows what a heavy cut-back might do but it sounds like you have no choice , so good luck.
27 May, 2009
They say not to cut into old wood, If the one branch has broken off with the snow I would just shape the rest after flowering, if that is successful do the whole thing gradually. If I were you I would hate to lose it.
27 May, 2009
I have seen pictures of these when they have been cloud pruned they look great.
I had one years ago and I used to cut it to keep it in shape after flowering.
My book says cut back hard in Apr.
26 May, 2009