Late Winter / Early Spring is time many people prune their trees, so if you you look around where you live, you can find a lot of fresh-cut branches from spring-flowering trees, ask the owners and bring them back home, add them to a vase filled with fresh water to force the flowers to bloom and brighten up your home during the gloomy weeks 🌸 This branch, although being huge - it was cut by my neighbour from his hundred year old magnolia tree. The tree is so big and beautiful and this was just a

Late winter early spring is when we prune our panicle type hydrangeas: lime light, quick fire, strawberry vanilla are examples. These are the hydrangeas with the cone shaped flowers. - 1st remove all the thin unproductive stems. Anything thinner than your pinky finger. - while you were removing the thin stems look for any other stems that are wounded where the bark has rubbed off. That’s a potential for disease. - next look for any crossing branches that could cause a wound. Remove one of the tw

Everyone always wants to know when the “best” time to prune is. For most plants it’s late winter/early spring. For flowering shrubs it’s within a few weeks after they bloom. (This is for our pleasure, not the health of the plants.) But you shouldn’t feel constrained by this because you can prune at other times. As we get into the colder months, if you prune flowering shrubs you will of course be cutting off any buds that would otherwise bloom next year. So be it. In situations like these, where