Re: fall-spring pruning was: Dividing Knowledge
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: fall-spring pruning was: Dividing Knowledge
- From: N* L*
- Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:43:41 CDT
Marge wrote:
The only danger in late fall
>pruning is a warm snap that wakes the plant up enough to put on growth - as
>pruning always stimulates growth - and then, of course, it gets colder n'
>billy bejeezus and freezes the new growth.
>
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A good point, especially in some of the warmer zones. A couple of other
reasons I prefer spring pruning: if we have an unusually cold winter, and
there is any freeze damage, I'd rather it happen before I did my pruning.
And, in the spring before the foliage shows up, it's easier for me to see
what I'm doing. Of course, as someone else pointed out, you have to know
whether blooms show up on current season's growth (as in crape myrtle) or
previous season's growth (as forsythia) so you don't prune off the flower
buds.
As a general rule, I prefer to divide in late summer and prune in spring in
my climate. If I lived in a colder climate, I'd probably tend to do both in
spring (but we have these killer summers to contend with!)
Nancy Lowe
Arkansas, zone 7
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