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Magnolia soulangiana
Could anyone advise me on this,i transplanted this magnolia in february as we have mild winters here,it was 10 foot high and after a little pruning we moved it to my new site.do i have to remove any of the flowering buds or can i leave it.chris.
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Magnolia soulangiana
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:06:17 +0000, kiwi
wrote: Could anyone advise me on this,i transplanted this magnolia in february as we have mild winters here,it was 10 foot high and after a little pruning we moved it to my new site.do i have to remove any of the flowering buds or can i leave it.chris. As nobody else has volunteered a reply, here's my ha'porth (but be warned: I managed to kill one MS and nearly kill a second, a good many years ago when I knew even less than I do now, if that's possible). If you moved it last February and it's still alive (i.e. it survived the summer), then I can't see any reason for removing the flower buds. OTOH if you mean that you moved it this year, then I would prune it quite heavily in anticipation of the summer. IIRC (and what killed mine, see above), they don't like root disturbance on moving. By hard pruning it you will limit the amount of leaf development, at least in the early months of growth, and reduce the stress on the damaged roots. Eventually, shoots will appear on the pruned branches, far more than you need. Rub out most of them, leaving only those that you want to grow on for a well-shaped tree. But I've just noticed that you sign yourself Kiwi, which may mean you're posting from NZ, so February is late summer. But that shouldn't make any difference to my first reply above if you moved it last February, as it will still have come through a year's growth in its new site and will be reasonably well settled in by now. But if you moved it this February, then it's got a winter to go through, when growth won't be very much, before the spring and summer come next September through December/January, in which case I think I'd be inclined to prune it fairly hard now. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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