Re: Fwd: Pruning a Princess Tree

Nancy Swearengen wrote:
> 
> >From: John Young <jfyoung@jps.net>
> >Reply-To: jfyoung@jps.net
> >To: nswearengen@hotmail.com
> >Subject: Pruning a Princess Tree
> >Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 16:42:09 -0800
> >
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >We are in search of good information on the care, feeding and pruning of
> >
> >a Princess tree.  It seems to be in need and we do not know what and
> >when to prune.

I presume we are talking about Paulownia.

This is a deciduous tree, so the usual prunng time is winter while it is
dormant.

It is a tree which will take very heavy pruning, but the amount one does
is largely governed by whether it is being grown for its spectacular
foliage or for it flowers. In Britain it is sometimes grown as a dot
plant in very large bedding schemes, and for this purpose it is stooled,
which means it is cut to the ground each March, which causes it to
produce huge magnificent foliage all summer. These plants however never
flower.

If you want the very attractive flowers as well as the foliage and have
plenty of room (It will eventually reach about 50feet in height) you
really don't need to prune at all, though if the tree gets straggly or
too leggy it can have the main stem(s) shortened to encourage branching,
but this will usually lose one a season's flowering. If you want to try
such pruning I suggest you remove about 1/3 of each stem cutting just
above a node (joint).
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand, SW Pacific. 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Time
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