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22 matches for “cuttings”
- Penstemon…The answer is not better care but cuttings. Non-flowering side shoots taken in late summer root easily in gritty compost and are in…
- Hardy geranium…take a pair of shears and cut everything back to a couple of inches. Within three weeks you get a complete fresh mound of…
- Japanese maple…The genuinely useful thing to know is when not to cut it. Acers bleed sap copiously from wounds made in late winter and spring…
- Anthurium…A green anthurium flower is an old one, not a sick plant, and cutting it off is a matter of taste. The compost matters…
- Japanese snowball viburnum…Those horizontal layers take years to build and a shrub cut back hard responds with a thicket of vertical whippy shoots that destroy the…
- Shrubby salvia…Cut back in spring once new shoots appear low down, and if in doubt, root a few cuttings in late summer and keep them…
- Canna lily…Each stem carries a succession of buds and then stops for good, so cutting it out at the base once it is spent pushes…
- Heartleaf philodendron…Move it somewhere brighter and cut the reverted lengths back to a node that still has the stripe, or accept a green philodendron, which…
- White princess philodendron…This is the opposite of the usual variegation advice — with most plants you cut the green out to preserve the pattern, and with this…
- Palm…It cannot branch, it cannot break from lower down, and if that tip is cut off or rots the stem is finished — permanently, however…
- Lacecap hydrangea…they look — they are doing a job protecting the buds underneath. Cut them back to a healthy pair of buds once the worst frosts…
- Border phlox…Winter Cut everything to ground level once it has gone over and bin the top growth rather than composting it. The roots are entirely…
- Double daylily…or autumn, discarding the woody middle. Winter It dies back completely. Cut the collapsed leaves off once they have gone yellow and leave the…
- Wild rose…It flowers on wood made in previous seasons, so cutting it back hard in late winter the way you would a hybrid tea removes…
- Rose campion…the opposite of what it sounds like: do not deadhead everything. Cutting off all the spent stems for the sake of tidiness is how…
- Dahlia…remove next week's display while congratulating yourself on being tidy. Cut back to a leaf joint, not halfway up a bare stem. Slugs…
- Hollyhock…Winter Cut the spike down and clear the debris properly. Any seedling rosettes that appear nearby are next summer's flowers, so leave those…
- Yarrow…Leave the seedheads for structure if you like them, cut them off if you don't, and clear them before growth starts in spring.
- Bear's breeches…Winter Cut it back once the leaves go over. Standing spikes dry to a good grey-brown skeleton if you want the winter structure…
- Shrub rose…infected leaves in autumn and binning rather than composting them, and cutting out marked wood when you prune in late winter. A rose that…
- Chinese money plant…Let them reach about 5cm, cut them off below soil level with a bit of root attached, and pot them up. This is the…
- Rubber plant…A film of household dust on leaves that size measurably cuts the light reaching them, and unlike a fine-leaved plant it has no…