[IBC] Gardenia help
 

HI,

I need to have some pruning and transplanting tips for
gardenia culture. How do you treat large cuts?
Is it easy to wire? Can it be transplanted now in
zone 9? How about root pruning?

Thanks in advance. I have looked on the web and only
fout temp, soil ph, and mostire requirements.

Kits

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Anne Lamott

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Kitsune Miko wrote:
HI,

I need to have some pruning and transplanting tips for
gardenia culture. How do you treat large cuts?
Is it easy to wire? Can it be transplanted now in
zone 9? How about root pruning?

Thanks in advance. I have looked on the web and only
fout temp, soil ph, and mostire requirements.

Kits

I have several in pots -- 2 dwarf and 2 "regular" -- and my
full size gardenia in the yard are white masses of flowers
as I write this (the smell is intoxicating!).

My dwarfs -- both skinny, unimpressive things as so many
"dwarf" varieties tend to be -- are about to bloom, too.
Haven't checked the larger potted ones, but I pruned them
severely earlier, so . . .

So far, I find them to be unexceptional plants, both for
care requirements and bonsai potential. Stems are supple
enough that you can tie small ones in knots. I so seldom
treat any cuts with anything that I can't advise, but they
seem to heal rapidly.

I'd guess transplanting would be better earlier in the
spring -- especially in 9. These are not azaleas.

I'd give them my unenthusiastic recommendation for good bonsai.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have kept the cultivar 'radicans' for many years now. It has small
leaves and flowers. I have never tried to wire it, because I can't see
a way to do it without being fakey. I trim it. It looks OK, but it
isn't a bonsai by any stretch of the imagination. It's the fragrance.
Oh man, it's the fragrance.


I need to have some pruning and transplanting tips for
gardenia culture.