Re: blue mist
- Subject: Re: blue mist
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:21:30 EDT
In a message dated 8/29/01 2:31:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:
<< 6" does sound rather drastic. My C. 'Longwood Blue' is a good 4' tall and
to take it back to 6" would mean sawing the trunk and not leaving any
branches (looking like a beaver had done the job)! Whereas the Caryopteris
in gallons in the nursery are only about 12" tall right now, so cutting them
back to 6" would give me a nice bushy plant. So I think everyone needs to
evaluate their shrub carefully before pruning back to any size.
Marilyn Dube' >>
This is again, treatments very different for zonal differences in this
country. I have Caryopteris which has survived a number of catastrophes.
The rule here in zone 4 and lower is to NOT prune this plant at all in the
fall/winter seasons. You wait until spring and check to see which branches
are alive. Then you can prune. Last winter around three feet of the shrub
survived, some years it needs to come back from the roots. I leave it alone
until the beginning of May and give it some shape then. This is another
plant that will not survive in wet soil. It blooms so late here that some
years the flowers are frozen. This year it is beginning to show some blue
on flower buds pretty early so we may see a shrub in bloom for a change.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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