Features of Pruning Shrubs (part 1)

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There are general rules for pruning plants, which we talked about earlier, but each type of ornamental shrubs has its own peculiarities of development, and therefore its pruning is special, peculiar only to it.

Abelia

After flowering, remove the old stems. In this way, you can avoid a strong thickening. Damaged and dried shoots are removed in April.

Features of Pruning Shrubs (part 1)

Armeniaca mume

After the end of the winter flowering period and the removal of shoots, they are cut off by 1/3 vegetatively, forming and preventing thickening of the bush.

Aucuba japonica

In April, the damaged shoots are cut off. If you need a hard pruning, ee is also carried out in the spring. In summer, you can shorten the long shoots.

Features of Pruning Shrubs (part 1)

Baccharis halimifolia

Pruning, limiting the size of the bush, and thinning is carried out in April.

Berberis

Pruning, maintaining the shape of the bush, is carried out after flowering or in late autumn after fruiting. If the bushes require hard pruning, do it in the spring.

Features of Pruning Shrubs (part 1)

Phyllostachys

Mature 3-4-year-old shoots are cut in March. Sometimes young shoots are damaged by cool winds, and in this case they must be removed immediately.

Euonymus

Weak shortening of long shoots is carried out in the summer, the main pruning-after the fall of the fruit. Hedges are cut in May and early autumn.

Crataegus

Regular pruning is not required. If there is a need for thinning, then it is carried out in late autumn.

Ligustrum

Separately growing bushes do not need to be pruned . In the spring, the damaged branches are also removed. Hedges are cut in May, and the second – at the end of August.

Buddleia

In plants formed in the form of a bush, it is desirable to cut the lower branches entirely. In February – March, the shoots of the previous year are heavily pruned, leaving only a few centimeters of old wood.

Features of Pruning Shrubs (part 1)

Weigela

Old flower stems and branches are cut off after flowering, vegetative shoots are formed.

Features of Pruning Shrubs (part 1)

Bupleurum Fruticosum

It tolerates hard pruning well. In order to form a bush at the end of March, make a light thinning.

Coronilla

For evergreen species, only too long branches are shortened after flowering. Old branches are also removed from deciduous trees in February-March.

Daphne

Does not require special pruning; strict pruning is contraindicated. Cut out the damaged branches after flowering.

Features of Pruning Shrubs (part 1)


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