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Pruning in Winter
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First post so apologies if my question is a little daft. As I am off for a few days, and the weather is looking decent, am I OK giving some of the shrubs I have acquired a decent prune. They are very well established (20 years or so) but have been left for a couple of years and so are quite over grown. If I do not do it now then I may not get chance again till Easter Thanks Lee |
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Pruning in Winter
leesug wrote:
Hi all First post so apologies if my question is a little daft. As I am off for a few days, and the weather is looking decent, am I OK giving some of the shrubs I have acquired a decent prune. They are very well established (20 years or so) but have been left for a couple of years and so are quite over grown. If I do not do it now then I may not get chance again till Easter Thanks Lee Lee, We had a nice day yesterday (70 degrees) and I did some pruning and cleanup that I normally don't do until spring. The first rule of pruning is to know the blooming habit of the plant. Some bloom on the new growth, some bloom on the previous years growth, some, it does not matter, you can cut them back to almost ground or any level you cat to. With non-blooming shrubs it really doesn't matter and deep pruning now (if you need to) with result in a quicker recovery when the weather warms up. Since you have well established shrubs you can cut them back a good deal. A deep cut back may make them look fairly poor this year but you are doing the cutback for the future and they will recover within a year or so. -- Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A) To see pictures from my garden visit http://members.iglou.com/brosen Digital Camera - Pentax *ist DL Remove NO_WEEDS_ in e-mail address to reply by e-mail |
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Pruning in Winter
On 12/28/2008 11:49 AM, leesug wrote:
Hi all First post so apologies if my question is a little daft. As I am off for a few days, and the weather is looking decent, am I OK giving some of the shrubs I have acquired a decent prune. They are very well established (20 years or so) but have been left for a couple of years and so are quite over grown. If I do not do it now then I may not get chance again till Easter Thanks Lee It really depends on your climate. If killing frosts will occur after the end of January, I wouldn't prune now. Where are you? Today, I started pruning my roses. I did four of the 14 plants. As soon as I finish the roses, I'll do my peach tree. I should be done with all winter pruning in about two weeks. However, we get no snow and rarely see serious frosts. We haven't had a killing frost since January of 2006, and that was unusual. We don't see weather that cold more than once in 10-15 years. Even then, it was not cold enough to make winter pruning bad for plants. It was only cold enough to be very uncomfortable for us humans who tried to work in our gardens that week. I did have some damage in my garden, but none of the plants that I had just pruned were affected. Instead, the damage was on plants that I know not to prune until March or April. It was also bad for local farmers who had citrus or avocado orchards or who had planted strawberries for a late winter or early spring crop. -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19) Gardening pages at http://www.rossde.com/garden/ |
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