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Post by whollygoats on Feb 13, 2016 17:51:46 GMT
As a gardener with a decent collection of roses and two rambunctious grapes, I have created for myself an annual 'Rite of Spring' wherein I am required to put a goodly amount of time in to pruning back shrubby plants.
I have other perennial shrubs which require attention, but it is the roses and the grapes which demand it.
The pruning will require several days of cutting back thorny roses to nubbins of what they are now. Some with shoots over eight feet will be cut back to knee high. All the prunings will have to be reduced in size to fit in to the yard debris cans, which is actually most of the work invovled.
After the roses comes the grapes. Now, there are only two and they have no thorns. But. Untamed grapes, which is what I have, can become pestilential. Mine can grow to cover the canopy of the three camellias and a rhododendron which populate the back corner of my urban lot. That's 15-20 up and an approximate radius of some 40 feet, almost all of which needs to be removed. Much of that is 'attached' to the underlying foliage by the tendrils of the grape vine.
Pruning is the greatest amount of punctuated work I am required to put in to my garden as part of my annual routine.
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Post by kingedmund on Feb 29, 2016 5:42:33 GMT
I don't even want to think about that. Of course since I am moving guess the roses can be done by the new person.
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Post by kingedmund on Feb 29, 2016 5:43:09 GMT
Worry about digging up bulbs that go. Yikes!
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 23, 2016 18:25:26 GMT
I managed to get my roses pruned. Only half of the prunings got chopped to compost.
I hired my sometime gardener to prune my grapes this year. His minions did okay, but I can see I'm going to have to wield my pole pruner to take out some adventurous vines they missed.
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Pruning
Mar 30, 2016 2:35:38 GMT
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Post by Mari on Mar 30, 2016 2:35:38 GMT
I need to prune my apple tree. Don't want to.
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Apr 9, 2016 11:05:17 GMT
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Post by Mari on Apr 9, 2016 11:05:17 GMT
The apple tree is now pruned. I watched a few videos on YouTube, so I hope I did it right. It's flowering right now, so at least I didn't kill it. Perhaps I should name it.
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Post by JoeP on Apr 9, 2016 11:38:47 GMT
Everything has begun to burst into flower at Castle JoeP! Well nearly everything. The buddleja that I pruned a few weeks ago has not done much yet. The hydrangea that had no sign of life at all has burst into leaf, so I've pruned off dead heads.
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Post by tangent on Apr 9, 2016 12:22:53 GMT
Our lawn needs mowing.
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Post by JoeP on Apr 9, 2016 12:43:20 GMT
Ours too.
I need to get a lawnmower.
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Post by Kye on Apr 9, 2016 16:56:08 GMT
There's still snow on the ground here...
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Apr 9, 2016 20:16:00 GMT
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Post by tangent on Apr 9, 2016 20:16:00 GMT
I've got to wait until the grass is dry before mowing the lawn, which is difficult in April with the frequent showers.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 10, 2016 3:07:59 GMT
I have iris in bloom. The daffodils are gone...blooms are blown.
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