Garden / Prime Time for Pruning
Prime Time for Pruning
Make a few key cuts now to shape up
your landscape for the year ahead.
Shrubs: Condider your goals before you pick up your pruners.
Shrubs: What to Prune When
 
In Late winter & Early Spring
Prune these ornamental and summmer flowering shrubs before they leaf out.
Abelia
Beautyberry
Cape fuchsia
Gardenia
Japanese barberry
Japanese spiraea
Peegee hydrangea
Rose-of-Sharon
Smoke tree
Summersweet
Sweetspire
 
In Late Spring & Early Summer
Prune these ornamental and spring-flowering shrubs after they bloom.
Azalea
Beautybush
Bigleaf hydrangea
Chokeberry
Deutzia
Flowering quince
Forsythia
Japanese Kerria
Japanese pieris
Lilac
Mock orange
Pearlbush

 

Extreme Pruning

 

     
     
     

Garden / Prime Time for Pruning