Re: Romneya pruning?

 Mind you, I'm not educated in the identifying and caring for growing things,
 but
 I have used my own garden as an experiment.  I have planted Romneya coulteri
 in
 various places under various conditions.  My experience is that it likes
 sunlight, and needs little in the way of fertilizer and water.  As a matter
 of fact I have seen it used as a freeway plant (no doubt wild) in Los Angeles
 (405 freeway).  My gardener,
 who has even less education as to plants and doesn't care about the garden
 systematically lops off everything which grows to unruly height and width in
 this unilateral opinion.  He's done this twice with the RC and each year it's
 grown
 back more lush than before and sprouted new plants near the original one.  So
 I
 don't think a severe end of season pruning would hurt it.  I for one cut the
 blooms for vases as I've discovered they are longer lasting in the vase and
 the
 fragrance is phenomenal.

 Best regards,

 Nancy Knupfer

 Nancy1234@aol.com
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