Re: Cutting back perennieals
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Cutting back perennieals
- From: F* L*
- Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 13:47:03 -0500
Janice,
When you cut your spirea back hard in the fall, do they bloom well in the
spring? I ask because I have had the notion they were one of the bushing to
be trimmed back only after they had bloomed because they need the older
growth for blooms the following year. I would like to get mine shorter
during the winter and even smaller in the spring and summer, and if your
method will work in zone 7, I want to use it.
Any others have experience along this line?
PS: We had about half a dozen or more tornadoes in Oklahoma last night.
Continuous wseather coverage on local TV from about 5.30 to news time at
10. It's amazing both what a tornado can do and how closely the new
technology can track storms. One station had about eleven spotter teams out
across the state sending in on-the-spot reports as called on.
Forrest Ladd
Oklahoma City
At 05:49 PM 10/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Pottsey
>I never do anything. I let them be until early spring then I remove the dead
>stalks. The only thing I will do is prune my Rose of Sharon and Spirea, which
>I cut back hard in November. I leave seed heads on the purple cone, black-
>eyed Susan's. I am sure everyone has a different technique, but this one has
>worked for me.
>
>Janice
>Connecticut
>
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