Winter dormancy - where a plant stops growing and barely ticks over - does not seem to have set in properly in certain parts of the country this season. Nonetheless, certain climbers - honeysuckle, late-flowering clematis, solanum, clianthus, campsis and parthenocissus - should be pruned now or they may get too unwieldy by next year. Use a sharp secateurs and make a clean cut a few millimetres above a bud that is pointing in the direction you want a new shoot to grow.
Indoors in the conservatory, you can prune back bougainvillea and plumbago.
