Spring Pruning pics, anyone?
BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
4 years ago
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Comments (3)I was also confused & finally started a program of pinching selected candles in half when they reached less than an inch.In my area this happens in March,which I found would give me needles that would be ready to show @ our local county fair in early June.I`ll show last years results in the gallery & next to it you`ll see tradition practice of cutting all candles in May,which was done by my Japanese friend.I have current pic of this years progress of cut candles ,which I can show if desired--Z--...See MoreBesides spring, when is the best time to prune shrubs?
Comments (3)They're all broadleaf evergreens except the magnolia, snipping here and there to even them up shouldn't be limited to any particular time other than when you notice that you want them to look different. (Shearing these into tight "meatballs" I would never do). The magnolia sets flower buds on the ends of its branches which overwinter and open the following spring, so much cutting back now would take away flowers - the main point of this plant. You also don't want to do much pruning on deciduous magnolias anyway. Stores and libraries with selections of gardening books have titles on pruning specifically, with sections describing the pruning of various kinds....See MoreSpring Pruning of Rainbow's End Minis
Comments (12)Yes, our normal rainy season is Oct/Nov to April/May. Then we normally get NO RAIN, not one drop, from June through Sept (4 mo), and sometimes from May through Oct( 6mo). So, I always laugh when folks from areas where it rains intermittently all Summer brag about giving their roses "no supplemental water"! I know nothing about foxgloves, except once I when I was touring the Vintage Gardens garden at its height, they had tall white foxgloves all over the garden, and they looked great with the roses. I tried planting some in my garden, but all of the ones I tried got 7-8 feet tall, and fell over, and were annoying. So, I gave up, but still looked at them in catalogues. This year I found one kind which claims to only get 18-24 inches tall (which I do not believe, at least not in my garden - everything in my garden seems to get at least twice as tall as advertised, but that would still only be 4 feet high). I ordered them from Spring Hill - these are the ones which just showed up. They are called ""Polkadot Polly". In the pictures they look pink with sort of gold/brown throats. Then I found another one in a Dutch Gardens catalogue which they claim only gets 30 inches high, which I doubled to 5 feet, but that it still way better than 8 feet! I ordered some - they are called Dalmatian Peach, and are supposed to bloom the first year. They look pale peachy pink with orangey throats. They have not arrived yet. Jackie...See MoreAnyone have pics of a well pruned mango?
Comments (4)I have ordered from plantogram before and they also sent me a leggy avocado and I ended up having to trim back considerably. Its nice and bushy and much shorter since I cut it. I would at least cut that long curvy branch just past that nodule thats half way on the branch. You should get several off shoots from there after you do that.The idea is too keep a short bushy tree so you dont ever want to let the branches get too long in the beginning. Tip the branches just past the knuckle nodule and it will usually give you several offshoots .pruning young mango tree...See Morecyndita (west coast zone 9)
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4 years agoStephanie, 9b inland SoCal
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