Great not too many videos about old tall rosebushes. Mine is about 7 feet tall really bushy winter winter, the stems are thick and green, but I really would like to get some roses this year. I think they’re roses..
My wisteria seemed to be starting to pull down my upper deck railing. It was severely overgrown and had large vines wrapping around my decking that I felt I HAD to cut at this point. So I did. I feel bad but it is such a beast i'm hoping it will still continue to grow over the years. Will see what happens. :( Thanks for the video! Fingers crossed!
It grows thick over the summer months. Mine's actually a hedge. Very few flowers come on it anymore. I took my crape myrtle and pruned it a foot past where I want to go. When it filled back in, it flowered beautifully. Can I do the same on my forsythia hedge allowing new growth to go past where you want it? I understand that it may not bloom nice until the following year. A tree surgeon got holt to it and removed mulberry saplings, wild boxwood, and rose of sharon growing in it. If I leave it like a hedge, it'll shade the weed plants out causing new sprouts to die. Before thinning, I need to choke the saplings out. 🐀🐾
You can prune it right back to the ground and rejuvenate it... Or you can prune it immediately after flowering, removing older canes, never taking hedge trimmers or loppers to them, just trimming out entire limbs that are dead, diseased, crossing or pointing in towards the plant. Again, best to do immediately after flowering so the buds can form for next year on your new growth. 👍👍
@@RealBradMillermy forsythia is one huge monster with cross branches. I'm totally thinning it out now by the end of June & hoping for the best by next spring 🌱 🙏
I have questions, and anybody that knows the answer please, please answer here. I’ve heard that you can stick forsythia branches in sand until they root, that you can stick them in jars of water and they will root. There are basically three main kinds of growth that I see. The first kind is older hardwood. The second kind is the brand new green wood that is sprouting off of that hardwood. And finally the Greenwood the spreading of the hardwood will sometimes have what I call secondary or even tertiary stems. Right now one of my forsythia plants has a humongous green branch that’s at least 14 feet tall and bent over. Typically I would take a trench in the ground and I would run that tall flexible for Cynthia branch into my little tunnel cover it up with dirt from it down please couple bricks on top and just leave it there. Well I can’t do that now because eventually I’m gonna take out all of these forsythia and move them to another part of the yard and I think it’s gonna happen like in a month. What do you do with that green branch that has the secondary branches coming off of it if you were to hold the branch perpendicular to the ground the branch would look almost like a rhizome and the branches coming off of the main branch look like they could actually turn into plants quite easily. Has anyone ever taken a long green for city branch and simply planted it in the ground sideways? And by leaving those secondary branches that are coming off the green branch it seems like those we just turn into forsythia branches the next season, or rather they would turn into forsythia plants following season. Final question. If you took a forsythia all the way down to 4 inches above the surface of your yard and you had hardwood and you had Greenwood and then you had soft wood coming off and so on and so forth, how should each component be treated if you want to try to route it? Sorry about the typo graphical errors, blame Siri.
Great video and very helpful! We’ve just had to totally cut back Wisteria from the front of our 4 story apartment block due to the plant growing through the balconies and the stem compromising the glass partitions. Admittedly, it was not really managed very well. However, the plant is now cut down to a clump of about eight, sic foot long stems. So, my question is, where will new growth appear? Do new puds sprout from an old established “branch” that has no buds or, will it only develop new growth from the base? We decided to leave the established stems at a hight of 6 foot so that we can train new growth up the front of the balconies rather than cutting it down to the ground. And, this time ensuring that the stems stay on the outside of the balconies and trained along with guiding wires.
He’s taking that particular new growth branch out of the equation because he’s trying to lead the four larger upright branches that represent individual plants get enough sunlight and air and solar and so forth. What I wish he had done is explain as he took each cutting whether it was hardwood Greenwood or a branch coming off the Greenwood if he would just stop the pruning and say OK I just took this hardwood this is how you prepare it to propagate OK here’s Greenwood this is what you do to make sure that you can have a brand new forsythia plant the following year. And then you hear some people saying you can stick forsythia stems in water in in about 30 days they develop roots and other people saying I just stick them in sand and will develop roots. The good news about forsythia is they’re very forgiving. An entire barn fell over on a row of 15 forsythia plants that I had planted with my now deceased wife back when I was young and strong I pulled up in the driveway my car just in time to see the entire barn fold over and come crashing into my yard crushing the forsythias and giving my mountain laurels quite a scare to boot! So that’s a good thing I was there because I fucking pitched a bitch and I got the guys to lift the wall off of my forsythia but it was all broken to hell. Forsythia is hard to kill and my plants are OK if they were deformed and they’ve never been really correct ever cents. If I knew that I could cut my forsythia almost down to the ground I would do it as long as I knew how to then intern propagate the various kinds of stems that I had taken.
Thank you for mentioning removing the leaves! I've just pruned my first hydrangea and wasn't sure if I should leave them to protect it as it's still a tad cold. If it causes rot, I'll go clear that out tomorrow. Wish mine was as quick as your's haha!
Thanks for the informative video. Is this the type of pruning you would do annually or just when the plant has become overgrown aesthetically? After an aggressive spring grooming like this what will this plant look like at the end of the season?
My Forsythia as one large stem/trunk and is shaped like football and very dense, small birds love it, could you give me some ideals how to prune it please
Thank you very much! After this quick and detailed reminder, this is exactly how I remember it. Thank you, again! Much appreciation from Texas, USA. 🇺🇸❤
Of course! Take cuttings in June and keep them in a moist sand-compost mixture, cover with plastic foil to retain the moisture. Mine rooted in about 3 months.
