Photinia 'Red Robin' question
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Does anyone know if now is a good time to prune fairly drastically. I would rather not do it in Spring because I would lose the lovely new red leaves, but I am concerned that pruning it now may allow it to get damaged by frost. Any ideas? -- Martin Remove 'ban..rubbish' from e-mail address for reply |
Photinia 'Red Robin' question
In message , Martin C
writes Hi, Does anyone know if now is a good time to prune fairly drastically. I would rather not do it in Spring because I would lose the lovely new red leaves, but I am concerned that pruning it now may allow it to get damaged by frost. We give our Photinias a trim after the Spring flush of red leaves and another trim or any heavier pruning in the Autumn after the second flush. If you decide to prune now you will probably still get a reasonable show of red later in the year. I do remember reading something about them being susceptible to frost damage but as we are located in South Devon I cannot comment from experience. -- Robert |
Photinia 'Red Robin' question
In article , Robert writes
In message , Martin C writes Hi, Does anyone know if now is a good time to prune fairly drastically. I would rather not do it in Spring because I would lose the lovely new red leaves, but I am concerned that pruning it now may allow it to get damaged by frost. We give our Photinias a trim after the Spring flush of red leaves and another trim or any heavier pruning in the Autumn after the second flush. If you decide to prune now you will probably still get a reasonable show of red later in the year. I do remember reading something about them being susceptible to frost damage but as we are located in South Devon I cannot comment from experience. Round here they don't suffer as much as Pieris which regularly lose their first flush of red leaves to the frost. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/ |
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