Pruning ornamental currant bush

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There's one of those ornamental currant bushes making up part of my hedge in the back garden. You know, the ones grown for their pretty pink flowers and not the berries. Usually, it gets hacked back when I start trimming the privet, which has been not long after it's finished flowering the past couple of years. This year, I've had so much else going on in the garden, that I got to the privet cutting pretty late. By that time, it was much later than the ideal pruning time. I've been trimming the privet around it with my mini-cutters, but my Dad is coming over on Monday with his proper hedge trimmers to give the whole thing a good seeing to.

Can I safely prune the currant bush back now (while it is fruiting) or will I damage it? I rent, so anything not in pots doesn't belong to me and I don't want to ruin it.

[nickdub]

I think it will grow on OK whatever you do by way of pruning - the only question for me is whether you might lose some of next season's flowering wood, and I'm not knowledgeable enough to be able to answer that one.

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Thanks, nick. I'm not too worried about affecting one year's flowering, so I guess I'll take some choppers to it once it's a bit less damp and windy out there.