i am bit of a gardening novice, but enthusiastic, we moved to a new house in december, and i have been wtching garden with excitment to see what pops up before i did too much, its quite a new house, and there are quite a few 'developers' bushes, by which i mean things that are green year round, hard to kill but not terribly exciting, i would quite like to remove these long term as think they are a bit bland, but in short term i would like to trim them back a bit to make them a bit tidier, but just wanted some thoughts on timing, would it be a disaster to do it now? I also have a tree, as yet unidentified, no blossom and has just come out in small bright lime green leaves which look a little like hawthorn, again can i trim off untidy lower branches so it looks more like a tree rather than a tall run away bush?