Thanks for your thoughts Yandrosxx and Pat.
We've had a very late start to our Autumn here in South East Queensland and most of my trees are all still showing good strong growth, though the elms can't decide whether to drop their leaves or produce new buds, with both occuring at the same time on all of them. As such, I've been so tempted to go ahead and make the changes to this little baeckea but fear that temps will start to fall soon enough, so will exercise some restraint and wait until the spring.....sigh.
I will post pics after the surgery.
