How to hard prune a shrub without spoiling its appearance

Rogers lovely Crinodendron shrub has got to big and is blocking the view of the surrounding hills in the south Wales garden.
We waited until the spring flowers have finished in June (we could have pruned earlier in spring ... I would say that here in the UK, a hard prune is usually good from mid March onwards, but we wanted to enjoy the flowers first)
In this video Roger shows us where he makes cuts into the stems / branches and how he manages to hide most of the ugly stumps by leaving some green leafy shoots around the outside of the plant to hide the stumps.

For more information on pruning shrubs you could look at this page from the Royal Horticultural Society (UK) website https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/beginne...