(beginners corner) help! weigela out of control
 

A novice here. I've recently moved into a house with a pleasant but - for the
last three months - neglected garden.

I'm sure there's a list of jobs I will need to attend to since there seems to be
a wide variety of shrubs (though I suspect nothing extraordinary) but I am
concerned about what, with the help of my readers digest pics, I've identified
as a weigela, It's about 8 feet tall (RD seems to set 6 feet as standard) just
started to flower but has some particularly long stems growing from its middle -
anything up to 11 feet tall. Can I cut these back now or should I wait until
the flowering has finished?

Also roses of many kinds (sorry for my blind ignorance on this) I suspect shrub,
climbing etc. Any rules of thumb for pruning etc that I could use for immediate
guidance prior to achieving my goal of becoming competent?

most grateful for any input.

(beginners corner) help! weigela out of control
 

On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:06:53 +0100, John Edgar
wrote:

On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:28:25 +0200, curiosity [email protected] wrote:

A novice here. I've recently moved into a house with a pleasant but - for the
last three months - neglected garden.

I'm sure there's a list of jobs I will need to attend to since there seems to be
a wide variety of shrubs (though I suspect nothing extraordinary) but I am
concerned about what, with the help of my readers digest pics, I've identified
as a weigela, It's about 8 feet tall (RD seems to set 6 feet as standard) just
started to flower but has some particularly long stems growing from its middle -
anything up to 11 feet tall. Can I cut these back now or should I wait until
the flowering has finished?

Also roses of many kinds (sorry for my blind ignorance on this) I suspect shrub,
climbing etc. Any rules of thumb for pruning etc that I could use for immediate
guidance prior to achieving my goal of becoming competent?

most grateful for any input.

We have one of these. The trick is to remove 1/3rd old growth every
July. Personally I think that's too much, so I take out about 1/6th.
We have done this for the past 2 years (only found out about it then)
and we get a second flowering, now. It' great and obviously likes what
we are doing.
John
In limine sapientiae

thanks - have just given it your treatment.