P:Recently, I am the owner of a garden where flowering shrubs have been growing for many years. They are quite overgrown and need to be trimmed. Spring is coming and I need to get down to it, but I don't know which one should I prune first?
O:In spring, in March, you can start pruning the shrubs that bloom in summer. These shrubs (shrub cinquefoil, Japanese tavula, tree and bouquet hydrangea, red currant, rose, budleja, barbula, heather and lavender) produce flower buds on new growths.The garden hydrangea can only be removed from dry inflorescences and withered shoots. Then we can prune the shrubs that bloom in spring.
These shrubs make flower buds on last year's and older shoots. They are cut after flowering. These include forsythia, tonsil, willows grafted on a trunk, quince, shrub, spring-flowering tavels, such as early, van Houte and Nippo tavernas, as well as tamarisks.Rejuvenation of strongly overgrown shrubs is carried out by cutting the oldest shoots close to the ground, and then shortening the remaining ones.
How to cut the most popular shrubs? You will find the answers in the first and second part of the article on shrub care
Q:Can any spraying be carried out in the early spring?
O:In the early spring you can spray orchard plants, trees and ornamental shrubs with an agent against spider mites, bowls and ocher, as well as against bacterial and fungal diseases (e.g. peach leaf curl) .
In order to reduce the use of chemical pesticides when cutting trees and shrubs, not only fruit, but also ornamental ones, first remove all diseased shoots, all mummified fruit and other plant debris.After using the equipment for cuts, it is worth decontaminating the blades.This way we will reduce the spread of diseases in our garden quite significantly.
