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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Winter-Interest Plants

I cut them to about 12" from the ground depending on how much winter damage
exists.

Diana Pederson
SUITE101 Editor:  http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/262
Home page:  http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/1945/index.html
-----Original Message-----
From: thebea1 <stuarta@IBM.NET>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Sunday, March 01, 1998 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Winter-Interest Plants


>Garden Nut wrote:
>>
>> I leave my Buddleia bushes as is for the winter because I've found that
they
>> die if I prune in the fall.  The plant seems to grow some short, very
gray,
>> furry feeling "winter leaves"--much different than the "summer leaves".
My
>> friends and I joke that this is the plant's winter clothes.
>> This year, I enjoyed looking at the dried flower remains. In fact, I
think
>> they might be good dried materials for flower arranging!  My flower
>> arranging class has definitely given me a new perspective on things.
>>
>> Diana Pederson
>> SUITE101 Editor:  http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/262
>> Home page:  http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/1945/index.html
>
>Diana,
>How far do you trim your Buddleia bushes come spring? Ground level? 12"?
>Thanks, Stuart Asch
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