What you
need to remember is that bushes just don’t produce flowers at will; they need time
to prepare, and typically this takes three months.
What you
can prune now is anything in your yard that has flowered already this spring;
you can go over my previous Blogs to find out what is on that list.
Many
times I have commented to people about a particular bush they have and how
pretty it flowers; only to have them look at me puzzled and say “It flowers?”
Seems sometimes Handsome Harry her handy husband/homeowner, hacked it up with
all the rest every year. The real culprits though are the condo lawn care guys;
they fly in with gas powered pruners ready to cut down everything in their
path. These poor dues paying folks rarely see what the landscape is capable of.
Three
months after the flowers have dropped off, the flower bud sequence sets up for
next year’s flowers, and is particularly the strongest as you get near the ends
of these branches. If you prune these off after this ‘bud set” is finished you
remove all the flower bearing wood, and that means no flowers.
So the
best time to prune anything is right after it has finished flowering. Who knows
you may have some shrubs in your landscaping that have never truly shown you
their true reason for being there.
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