Lauri - with a hard haircut in the spring, do you still get flowers in late spring? Mine are already done blooming here so now is when I would prune hard. As overgrown as Jen's seem to be, removing so much biomass should be a consideration.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money. Cree proverb