Help needed from all green fingered MNers!

[LilRedWG]

When we bought our house we inherited lots of ever-greens, which we niavely thought were miniatures. Three years later and it damned obvious that they're not.

What's the best time to prune them and how far back can I go without totally killing them?

TIA

to be honest you need to identify what they are. there are several ways of pruning and you need to know what something is in order to know how and when to prune it. you might be able to identify it through some good googling, and then do some more googling and you should be able to find out how to prune it, otherwise you could be really old-fashioned and buy a book. sorry not to be more helpful

you could take a picture and post it on your profile and see if mners can help you with identification

LOL - I know one is a blue spruce but think I need to get a book for the others, or post pictures on here.

Thank you!