Re: pruning caryopteris shrubs

they get good size here - probably the long growing season. They get
between waist and chest high even their first year (on me that is at 5'
5"). everything's bigger in Texas (except white-tailed deer)


:-D

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: romans810@juno.com
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:21:33 -0800

>I planteplanted 2 russian sage last year, kinda small, but got enough
>growth so that they should have some show this year. I planted them down
>in my hodge -  podge "botannical garden, formerly my veggie garden. I
>have red twig dogwood, lavender,hydrangeas, sedum autumn joy, hardy
>fuschia, 2 "pee-gee" hydangeas, 2- engleman pines, iris, asst'd poppies &
>asst'd ground covers. 
>
>
>Tony Veca <><
>Another Gr888 Day in Paradise !!!!!
>Vancouver, WA
>
>
>
>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 06:28:45 -0600 "Pamela J. Evans"
><gardenqueen@gbronline.com> writes:
>> Well thank God for my gut instincts and this wonderful group. I sure
>> will do my caryopteris like my Russian sages which flourish, even 
>> though
>> a tree fell on one of them year before last. It just had a funny 
>> shape
>> and leaned the rest of that season. Such a wonderful shrub, Howard
>> Garrett is right - they are underused and should be used more.
>> 
>> Gorgeous and I had hummers fighting w/ the swallowtail butterflies 
>> to
>> get to the necter. Getting my neighbor Pat a couple this Spring.
>> 
>> 
>> thanks again y'all!
>> 
>> Pam
>> 
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>> From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
>> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Date:  Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:19:04 -0500
>> 
>> >Well, Pam, once upon a time I had a very nice Caryopteris who 
>> bloomed
>> >and seemed quite happy.  I had it for several years and never 
>> pruned
>> >it.  Then, I read about the same thing - "you must prune it to the
>> >ground"...so, I did.  Killed it deader n'  a door nail.  Which 
>> goes
>> >to prove that you should NOT believe everything you read and you
>> >should NOT whack these guys back to ground level.
>> >
>> >Now, like others who replied, I wait until signs of life and prune 
>> to
>> >a bursting bud.  Seems the best course with most woody plants who
>> >need a haircut.
>> >
>> >Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>> >mtalt@hort.net
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>> >> From: Pamela J. Evans <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
>> >> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] pruning caryopteris shrubs
>> >> Date: Monday, January 27, 2003 8:55 PM
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks Ceres! I read (somewhere) that you should cut them down 
>> to
>> >about
>> >> 3" from the ground, but that seemed a touch severe to me. I sent
>> >the
>> >
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>> Kemp TX/zone 8A
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