Getting my star jasmine to grow, should I be pruning it now?

[Towcester]

Been in the ground at the back of my border for a year and a bit now. Want it to get bigger and bushier. It's flowering now which is lovely but is there anything I should do after it flowers to help get it to grow more?

I heard something about pinching the flowers but don't know what that means? Does it mean cutting the flowers off with secateurs?

Any advice?

Now’s the time it’s making new growth, if you prune it you will cut off this years flowers. They do take a while to get established. Maybe a fan of trellis behind that you could tie the whisky bit to.
I feed mine at this time of year, with liquid Tomato feed.

just bought one to hide a few meters of ugly fence but it sounds like that's going to take quite some time!

You can prune it when it finishes flowering.

”Pinching” is literally that. Use your thumb and finger to pinch off flowers

Thanks, it is behind some shrubs right now so not too bothered about this year's flowers since I cannot see them much. When it rises above them, hopefully next summer, I will be excited. There is a galvanised wire set up a bit higher up but could create some support lower down. I do use tomatoes feed also.

Have a Jasmine beesium in another part of the garden. Been 'pinching'some of those spent flowers just now. Think I get the idea now. There are so many tiny flowers on a beesium though so just got what I could see over 20 minutes or so. Will try the same with the star jasmine when the flowers die.

I'm about to go and trim my jasmine with a hedge cutter - it took a few years to get its feet down but is now rampant. As with anything I do the cutting back/shaping etc just after flowering.