TOLEDO, Ohio — Maybe it’s come time in the season to prune your plants, perennials and scrubs but you’re not sure quite sure where to start.
Jenny Amstutz from Nature’s Corner shows Go 419 Host Malena Caruso how to prune some of those flowering plants without any worries about messing up.
"Your summer flowering scrubs, like spirea, when it’s done flowering all of these dry flower heads are left – it is okay to use hedge clippers and trim those off," Amstutz said. "It’s going to keep the scrub looking cleaner and healthier promoting new growth. The new growth will have new flower buds"
Amstutz said don't be afraid to give the plants a good haircut.
"As you look, this is going to push out all new growth - this is even starting to grow. The scrub is going to end up being beautiful. So don’t be afraid to go in and prune. I prune like maybe once or twice a year. These are low maintenance scrubs. So, don’t think you have to go out there every weekend."
Some flowering plants take a little more finesse.
'We usually carry the drift roses, the knock out roses and a lot of your scrub roses," Amstutz said. "Dead-heading will just clean them up. You can see when it blooms it’s in a grouping of flowers. I go back to just where there’s a healthy leaf right about it and it cleans it right up. This will help promote new blooms. It helps with the air movement on roses – they link the air movement. Here’s a good one to cut – like if you were to cut right here… Now look at this, this is going to promote new growth to come up! It’s going to be beautiful."
Amstutz said if you're not sure come in before you start pruning and they will show you up to clean up your garden.
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