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Pruning Guide: Pruning Shrubs “After” Blooming

Pruning Guide: Pruning Shrubs “After” Blooming

by Rick Raiford / Wednesday, 17 September 2014 / Published in How To, Landscape Tips, Monthly Landscape & Gardening Tips, Pruning Guides
Pruning shrubs Azalea

The best time to be pruning shrubs that bloom on year-old wood is just after the blossoms have faded.  Then the shrub will grow new branches and form the flower buds that will bloom the following year.

For example, if you prune your azaleas in February, you’ll have no blooms come spring time, because their buds grew on the wood you’re cutting off.

                                                                                                                                                      The below table explains pruning shrubs

(And please bear with us: these lists may tend to ignore the distinctions between shrubs, small trees, and even vines and groundcover- type plants.)

Akebia
Cytisus (broom)
Rhododendron
Amelanchier (shadblow) Daphne (garland flower)
Ribes (flowering currant)
Azalea Deutzia
Rosa (roses)
Benzoin (spice bush) Exochorda (pearlbush) Spirea (bridal wreath)
Berberis (barberry) Forsythia (yellow bell) Spirea thunbergii
Buddleia alternifolia (butterfly bush)
Hydrangea hortensia
Spirea van Houtei
Calycanthus floridus (sweet shrub, strawberry shrub)
Jasminum (jasmine)
Syringa (lilac)
Caragana (Siberian pea)
Kalmia (laurel)
Tamarix (spring-flowering)
Celastrus (bittersweet)
Kerria japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Vibernum carlesi, V. lantana (snowball)
Cercis (Judas tree, redbud) Magnolia
Vibernum opulus (highbush cranberry)
Chaenomeles (flowering quince)
Philadelphus (mock-orange)
Weigela
Chionanthus (white fringe)
Physocarpus (ninebark)
 
Cornus coggyria (smoke tree)
Pieris (andromeda)
 
Crataegus oxyacantha (English hawthorne)
Potentilla (cinquefoil)
 
Cydonia (Japanese quince)
Prunus (flowering almond, cherry, plum)

 

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