Cutting the beehive tree »The right cut for the stinky ash

Thumbs up for cut tolerance

Right at the front: The bees tree, which is also known as the velvet-haired stinky ash tree, doesn’t resent heavy pruning. He goes consistently as well cut tolerant. It even sprouts vigorously from old wood.

The only question is whether cutting is necessary at all. It depends on where you get the copy plants and what form it should take or Which size it is allowed to achieve.

Solitaires with lots of space

A stinky ash on hers Location has enough space to develop freely in all directions, does not require any educational cuts to flourish magnificently. Occasionally, however, light maintenance cuts may be necessary.

• cut in spring
• when the big frosts are over
• Remove frozen shoot tips

Smelly ash as a shrub

A bee tree is often made out Seeds drawn. Or it migrates into the garden as a tiny sapling, because these are offered comparatively cheaply. That is why his owner still has every leeway to train him in a desired form.

The stink ash is therefore very often found as a flowering shrub. In addition to the spring pruning, the shrub is cut a second time.

• trim a little in summer
• this promotes bushy branching

Occasional radical cuts

If it should be necessary to radically shorten the shrub, there is nothing to prevent it. All you have to do is arrange for it not to bloom the following year.

Raising stinky ash as a hedge

Stinky ash trees that grow as a shrub can line up in loose hedges. They will be in theirs in the fall after flowering growth limited. This gives the wounds enough time to heal completely by winter.

The smelly ash is less suitable for a very formal hedge. The strong pruning required every year would almost completely rob her of the beautiful flowers. And that's why we and the nectar-seeking bees love this shrub so much.