I'd be grateful for advice, please. Is it better for the health of a Pieris
to lop off its flower heads after the shrub has flowered, or to leave them
alone?

Cuv

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from Cuvapu contains these words:

I'd be grateful for advice, please. Is it better for the health of a
Pieris
to lop off its flower heads after the shrub has flowered, or to leave them
alone?

I just leave them on. Our pieris are smothered in brilliant new growth
this year, a real picture. I don't know if that's due to a warm summer
last year, or their new diet of seaweed and dogpooh :-}


Janet.

Janet Baraclough.. wrote in
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from Cuvapu contains these words:

I'd be grateful for advice, please. Is it better for the health of a
Pieris
to lop off its flower heads after the shrub has flowered, or to leave
them alone?

I just leave them on. Our pieris are smothered in brilliant new
growth
this year, a real picture. I don't know if that's due to a warm summer
last year, or their new diet of seaweed and dogpooh :-}

Thank you, that's helpful - I'll leave the heads on if it seems to do no
harm. Mind you, I'm not sure that mine will get the dogpooh diet!

Cuv

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The message
from Cuvapu contains these words:

I'd be grateful for advice, please. Is it better for the health of a
Pieris
to lop off its flower heads after the shrub has flowered, or to leave
them
alone?

I just leave them on. Our pieris are smothered in brilliant new growth
this year, a real picture. I don't know if that's due to a warm summer
last year, or their new diet of seaweed and dogpooh :-}


Ours has been brilliant, too, but without the benefit of seaweed or (much)
dogpoo, so I guess it was last year's summer. I don't dead head pieris,
either, so can't say whether it is advantageous to do so, but they seem to
manage fine without it.

BAC4/5/04 9:44


"Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message
...
The message
from Cuvapu contains these words:

I'd be grateful for advice, please. Is it better for the health of a
Pieris
to lop off its flower heads after the shrub has flowered, or to leave
them
alone?

I just leave them on. Our pieris are smothered in brilliant new growth
this year, a real picture. I don't know if that's due to a warm summer
last year, or their new diet of seaweed and dogpooh :-}


Ours has been brilliant, too, but without the benefit of seaweed or (much)
dogpoo, so I guess it was last year's summer. I don't dead head pieris,
either, so can't say whether it is advantageous to do so, but they seem to
manage fine without it.


We don't deadhead ours, either and they're glowing away down at the bottom
of the garden looking quite wonderful.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)