Keeping lilacs small »This is how you inhibit the growth of the Syringa

Appropriate measures to keep the lilac small

Incidentally, this does not only apply to small gardens, but also to in buckets cultivated lilacs. Here, too, the shrubs must be limited in their growth, which you can best achieve through these measures:

• Installation of a root or Rhizome barrier already when planting.
• Annual pruning immediately after flowering.

the Root lock does not apply to bucket lilacs, since the roots are kept small here anyway due to the size of the planter. Also, do not buy the largest pot for young plants straight away, but adjust its size approximately every two years according to the growth of the plants. Then it is time for fresh substrate anyway, so that you can transplant the lilac into a larger container. For planted lilacs there is one Root lock on the other hand not only useful for reasons of growth in size, because many varieties develop very spreading, strong and difficult to remove root.

Annual cutback - that's how it works

In principle, a lilac does not have to be pruned, but to keep it small you should annually Secateurs to grab. Always cut immediately after flowering, as the flower buds of the following year are always formed directly after the new shoots. Cut If you are too late, you may remove the upcoming bloom. And this is how you keep the lilac small:

• Remove up to a third of the wood.
• What has withered and dead must be cut away.
• Likewise inward and cross-growing shoots.
• Shorten the remaining shoots as desired.
• Superfluous or Main branches or trunks that have become too large are removed directly at the base.

Avoid radical pruning, otherwise the lilacs could sprout again from the roots - with the result that you suddenly have hundreds Root saplings facing, which sprout from the ground around a radius of several meters around the former trunk.