Garden Rules by Jayme Jenkins

Author:Jayme Jenkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Published: 2011-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

Timing Is Everything (When Pruning Flowering Shrubs and Trees)

IT TOOK ME a really long time to realize it, but most shrubs and trees love to be pruned. Pruning stimulates stronger and abundant growth, and flowering types have to be pruned to make sure there are plenty of buds for the following season.

The tricky part is knowing when to prune. This is not as easy as it sounds. You have to know if it is a spring-bloomer or a summer-bloomer.

Spring-bloomers include forsythia, crabapples, dogwoods, spirea, honeysuckles, redbuds, lilacs, and azaleas. Prune these pretty soon after they finish, because they bloom off old wood, meaning they set buds for the following spring later in the year. If you wait too long to prune, you’ll cut off the buds (meaning no flowers the next spring). Summer-bloomers include crape myrtles, butterfly bush, hydrangeas, beautyberry, nandinas, potentilla, and mockorange. Red or yellow twig dogwood is in this group because new growth is more vividly colored. Prune these in late winter or really early spring, because they bloom off new wood.

Late fall isn’t a good time to prune either of these types because it might trigger new growth right before winter, and that is not a good thing. (BB)

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