Pruning
Shrubs
By J.R. Feucht, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension landscape plants specialist and professor, horticulture (retired)ng shrbs no. 7.206
Quick Facts..
- Pruning helps improve the health and safety of plants.
- While pruning has a dwarfing tendency, it stimulates growth points into action.
- Height reduction, thinning and improvement of flower quality can be done in late winter before bloom by taking out the oldest and weakest canes at or near the ground line.
- Some shrubs may need an occasional heading-back of isolated shoots because of
- outside influences, such as shade, which may cause the plant to become out-of-balance.
- Normally, for most summer-flowering shoots, a cut-back of all shoots in early spring to near the soil line is desirable.
- For complete information see CSU Fact Sheet 7.206.
