Through the dissolution of a suburban marriage - by way of boredom, lovelessness and the fact that, when the wife's pruning shears match her gardening gloves, it is no accident - the film suggests there is beauty next to you, that you can reach out and touch it, that people are not what they seem and that everyone's life is infinitely more interesting than they think it is.
See the way the handle on those pruning shears matches her gardening clogs?
Clearing away the legal undergrowth of ancient clauses that no longer serve any purpose requires regular legal pruning, reversing parliament's past enthusiasm for new laws.
We still considered ourselves to be the kind of people whose children would play in the garden, not in the soft-play centre; the kind of people who would spend weekends pruning the wisteria and serving roasts on an ample kitchen table.
Charlie was gregarious; he morris-danced and taught us how to lob a rotten apple (on the end of a pruning saw, it curve-balls perfectly and hits the unexpected in a great splatter).
The detail matters in pruning, and if you are a beginner, keep referring back to a book: the RHS Pruning & Training manual remains the best.
Out of the kitchen window is the garden in which Lucinda, whom he describes in the book as "a lone Eve", would lose herself to planning, planting and pruning.
One wonders quite what will be left of the tremendous World Service once the budget cuts kick in, and radio drama has had a pruning with the loss of the Friday Play.
Pruning is only one part of the maintenance routine you need for a good crop of apples.
At the same time, supermarkets are pruning the assortment of goods on shelves and consumers are shifting from name brands to supermarkets' own-label nosh.Factories producing packaged food are operating well below capacity, notes Thilo Wrede of Jefferies, a stockbroker.
If in the course of those cases it emerges that individual managers have broken the criminal law, they can be charged.The second is a severe pruning of the legal system.
