Cut summer flowering bushes in winter
Summer-blooming bushes are very popular thanks to uncomplicated pruning. The buds for this year's blossom symphony appear on the young wood that sprouts from spring. Popular flower beauties like Butterfly lilac (Buddleja davidii), summer sparrows (Spiraea japonica) and Panicle hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata).
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The best time to cut bushes that bloom in summer is in late winter. If freezing frost is no longer to be feared between the beginning of February and the beginning of March, cut back these shrubs. The circumference of the cut is subject to your personal assessment as well as the variety-specific attributes, because you do not have to worry about accidentally cutting off valuable flower systems.
Cut spring-blooming bushes in summer
Spring-blooming bushes are spared from pruning measures in late winter. The trees planted their flower buds in the summer and autumn of the previous year. If you let the scissors circle in February, you will look in vain for the longed-for flower fairy tale in spring.
The best time to cut for spring-flowering shrubs is after the flowering period. Cut out heralds of spring, like Weigela (Weigelia), mayflower bush (Deutzia) or golden bells (Forsythia) back a little in summer. As long as you limit yourself to this year's growth and withered flowers, you continue to act in accordance with that Federal Nature Conservation Act.
Cutting instructions
Regardless of the individual characteristics of the variety, the expert cut follows a tried and tested basic scheme. The goal is airy, light-flooded growth. When the sun's rays penetrate deep into a bush, the vitalizing photosynthesis ensures a dense cover of leaves. How to properly cut bushes:
- Always clear dead, frozen and meager branches at the beginning
- Clean up withered flowers until just before a bud, a leaf knot or a leaf
- Deadwood on Astring or cut off at floor level
- Cut back or completely remove shoots that are growing transversely and protruding from the shape
- Cut away the weakest specimens from branches that are too close together
Cardinal errors when cutting bushes are gaps and holes in the appearance. This shortcoming is circumvented by placing excessively long branches over the path of a Derivation cut back. With this pruning technique, you don't cut anywhere, but at the fork to a young, well-positioned side shoot.
Tips
When it comes to pruning, rose bushes have a special position. Primarily more frequent Roses receive the main cut in spring, followed by a light maintenance cut in summer. When the forsythia is in bloom, cut your roses back vigorously except for a few eyes. After the first pile of flowers, clean off withered rose blossoms to pave the way for another generation of buds and a flowering period until autumn.