Which ones and how does it make sense?

What are the advantages of pruning in autumn?

If you cut back evergreen shrubs in autumn, you will reduce the risk of branches or twigs breaking under the load in heavy snowfall. If the branches of large bushes hang over a path so that you can brush against them when walking, this is certainly not a pleasure in wet weather. If you prune these shrubs in good time, you will save yourself some involuntary shower.

Which bushes should be cut back in autumn?

In autumn, cut back your berry bushes, such as currants and gooseberries, but also blackberries and summer raspberries. This will prevent any mites that may be present on the bushes from overwintering and from spreading and multiplying again in the next spring. Autumn raspberries on the other hand are only cut in winter.

Hedge bushes are usually pruned in autumn, often again in spring. Unrestricted pruning is only permitted by law from the 1st October and before 1. March.

In summer a radical cut to protect breeding birds is prohibited. Then you are only allowed to make light shape and care cuts.

Shrubs to cut in autumn:

• Soft fruit
• Hedge shrubs, exception: early bloomers
• evergreen shrubs
• Finger bush
• Forest or snowball hydrangeas
• Panicle hydrangeas

Are all hydrangeas pruned in the fall?

Similar names suggest similar care, but you shouldn't all be in the fall Pruning hydrangeas. Varieties that already sprout the new buds in autumn should no longer be cut back. Most species fall into this category, for example the farmer's hydrangeas, climbing hydrangeas, giant leaf hydrangeas and plate hydrangeas.

Few species like the forest or snowball hydrangea and the Panicle hydrangea are an exception. The new flower buds do not form on these bushes until spring. Therefore, they can be pruned either in autumn or early spring.