In article , waggie31
wrote:

hi there, could anyone tell me when this buds up, i have one in my
garden which looks dead.
thanks

Without knowing which of more than fifty species you've got, it's hard to
give useful feedback. Around here most of the gardened ceanothus are
evergreen, so if they look dead, they're dead. If you really have a
deciduous ceanothus, those usually need a hard pruning once a year (March
is idea) and I wouldn't expect the older limbs to do much. They can have a
milder pruning mid summer to get green twigs from which to root new
specimens.

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