5 plants to prune in June for bigger, better blooms next year

Purple clematis flower growing in front of wooden fence.

There are key times of the year to prune, and when your spring plants have flowered and gone over, now's the time to give them a spruce-up.

'June is the perfect time to give spring-flowering shrubs a tidy; it helps them stay in shape and flower well again next year,' says Julian Palphramand, head of plants at British Garden Centres.