How and when should I prune a WAY overgrown burning bush? The bush is about 10 ft across presently and it needs to...

The bush is about 10 ft across presently and it needs to be cut track back. How do we do this?
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Answers:    Pruning won't stimulate growth if you prune at the right time, and spring is not the time to do it. The plants juice will be flowing at that time and when branches are cut, will bleed, causing added stress to the plant. The best time is as other posters stated, surrounded by the fall after the leaves hold turned their brilliant fire red and dropped. The bush will be shutting down for the winter and sap flow will be stopping as well. You can prune support as much as you like on a burning bush as long as you start out a foot or so of the fine ramification (twiggyness). You don't want to cut it back so far that adjectives you have not here is thick, stumpy branching. By the plant shutting down surrounded by the fall, you can cut fairly a bit off short harming it. Make sure however, that you are not expecting a rock-hard "freeze" of some sorts. You want to give the pruning wounds time to make well over before a freeze hits. Major pruning such as this is best done within the fall "not" spring. Spring is for insubstantially shaping up when new growth get out of hand and to maintain a plant inbounds of where you want it to stay. Hope this answers your quiz.

**Billy Ray**
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I trim the bushes in my lanscaping surrounded by the fall after leaves slop off. I cut them wayyyy wager on and they come out again in the spring prettier than ever.