Pruning: How Low Can You Go?

When I perform a heavy pruning of a shrub in my garden, it can be a little nerve-wracking to cut low into old wood. Will the shrub recover from such a hard pruning? There are some particulars around the right season and the variety of plant, but my general experience has been that a healthy deciduous shrub will recover quite nicely from even a deep pruning. There are dormant buds down low on the stems of most shrubs. In this video, I'll show you three examples of the results of my heavy pruning this year and last.

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Photo credits:
Pruning saw: Clint Budd (CC BY 2.0)
Leyland Cyprus with Bad Pruning: Donald Bryden (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Mock Orange: Lazaregagnidze (Wikimedia commons) (CC BY-SA 4.0)