[Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page

[jdaxtrax at cox.net]

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jdaxtrax at cox.net

Hi,
 
Stumbled upon your site while looking for advice on trimming Lady Banks.  Ours were straddling the wall between us and a neighbor for years, then they had their guys chop off their side.  Not good.  Anyway, they got pretty woody below from too much shade below the canopy, so I have decided to pare them way back, make a decent espalier, and not let them get out of control (ha-ha) again.  
 
Do you know if I should just take them all the way down to the ground and let the roots do their thing nourishing a new plant...... or what?  If you have no answer, can you refer someone that might?
 
Thanks,
 
Jeff