How do I prune a fatsia japonica?

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Beautiful but rather vigorous fatsia right by my shed, I have to fight it to get in and out. Crocus says to prune lightly in mid-late spring but need to be more drastic. Will I kill it or are they fairly invincible?

Now, I'm no expert so don't quote me, but I just tend to get right into them and cut out a couple or more of the chunkier stems as low down as possible, so that there's more air getting through them, which seems to make mine happier (the leaves can go a bit manky otherwise). There's a few new shoots low down which I've kept and I trim off the "flowers" cos I don't like them and basically take off anything that's getting out of hand. In my experience they're fairly invincible and I just enjoy a bit of a hack.
Hope that helps!

Thanks Peaches - I actually took DH's bow saw to it (and half the garden I am a fellow hacker and I've not killed anything - yet!) and cut off a huge stem the was grwoing across the shed door and then took out any manky leaves and dead bits. It looks much better, a little more symmetrical and I can now get in and out the shed without being attacked.

Which is always useful I find!

And there's nothing more satisfying than a good hack...

I massacred a huge fuschia which the frost had ruined. It is little more than a stump but it always comes back.