Cutting Back Perennials // Garden Answer 

You have a natural speaking and teaching ability that is easy to listen to!

I know this video is 2 years old but I just have to still say THANK YOU for showing the final clip of cutting the plants back hard! I SO need this reminder that the plants may look sparse for a bit but it's worth it! ❤

Great tips. Would love a video on how you care for your roses in the summer.

Laura I know this was a while back but I’m so glad to have come across this video. I’m a beginner gardener and found this so helpful and I start to see blooms on my new plants. Thank you

This was reassuring that I’m gardening and pruning correctly during the summer. I like to keep my gardens looking as tidy and healthy as possible during the entire summer.

I've noticed that the Proven Winner's website gives the info on when and how to cut back. Their website is really good. I always hated how my Salvia would fall over and I didn't know I could cut it back after blooming. Now I'll check the site regularly. I'm learning so much from your videos Laura and Aaron. Bless you both for sharing.

Seeing perfect gardens is nice to see certainly but seeing these type of videos is why I keep watching. Please do more like this, thanks Laura and Aaron!

I asked these questions a few days ago at local garden center and they couldn’t answer them! So glad to find this video and will head outside with clippers and fertilizers. I’m discovering these older videos but in the right months are still helpful.

Oh my gosh! the hard cutback section is SO helpful! I always treated these very same tall perennials as "light shearing" just to tidy up my garden but still had to live with their floppy post-bloom gangliness which I still hated. Sometimes I gathered them up around the base with a little twine and (hidden under that foliage) and closed up the floppy centers but didnt know I could safely cut them to the ground mid season for regrowth! Thank you so much!!

Truth: I finally subscribed because I think you're nice to that cute kitty. How could I not?

I'm in love with your faithful companion! That beautiful kitty!🐱 😍❤️❤️❤️

When you do your July garden tour, can you please do a long video and really take your time going through all your progress with the garden. I think your subs would LOVE it! Of course, only if you have the time. We will be happy with whatever you give us, but i just thought I'd share the suggestion! We love you!!

Omg where have you been all my life lol. This video was so helpful!!

Thanks so much!! Didnt know I could get more blooms!! Its like buying a new plant!!

You are the bob Ross of plants

I love watching your videos and all the knowledge your have about plants. You are not afraid to get down and dirty and it makes it that more interesting. Thanks and continue making videos

Great tips! I often struggle with wondering how far to cut them back.

You're absolutely lovely, so informative and well spoken. Thanks for letting me know your zone, same as mine! Keep up the good work.

This was a great video!! I'd love a longer one when you have time. Your videos are sooo helpful and very inspirational. Thank you so much Laura, Aaron and Dexter for all that you do!!!! 💖😊🌸❣🌻☀️😺

I love the information you give. I’m watching and doing something new each day. I love the cat too! I take mine out sometimes

I enjoy you so much. It’s like having my best friend in to visit each day sharing with me such helpful gardening tips. I have coffee with you every morning

Your kitty cat loves you, so adorable !

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I come from a family of gardeners in South Africa but I live in the US and have really struggled to figure out American plant care. I just bought a house and I’m so excited for next years gardening!

Thanks for sharing. I am starting using perrinials and wasn't sure about cutting them back. This video hastened me sooo much. Much love and appreciation. God's blessings.

She's so smart, and pretty, and so generous with her time to share this knowledge with us. Wow!

Laura l continue to learn i look forward to your videos my gardenis really improving My neighbors have been giving me nice complments Thank You PS l jove your kitty so cuteway he follows you in your garden

Please, by all means make longer videos. We love your long videos. I would honestly sit down and happily watch even an hour long video from you. Keep it coming! :)

You are fantastic! I feel I’m learning so much about plant care and how to mix plants. Thank you.

OH MY GOSH, THOSE DAISY MAE DAISIES ARE SO GORGEOUS!!

Such a nice young lady! Love the interaction with her cat too. Great info and well presented. Thank you. :-)

This is just the perfect garden channel I’m looking for all this while

Thank you so much Laura for this video. I have several of the flowers you were talking about/showing and was wondering if I was pruning the correct way. Love how Dexter looks like he's trying to hide behind the bush towards the end :) He's such a cutie-pie!

Oh my gosh thank you so much for this video! I have been wondering about this for the past week with my flower beds that I planted full of perennials. Now I'm ready to go start my day and get into the garden. I have lots to do! Thanks again Laura and Aaron and have a great day!

I just love your videos!!!! Thank you for making them. They bring me joy and get me excited to work outside.

I'm so grateful for your valuable lessons with so much enthusiasm and authenticity. And Dexter is such a welcomed vision. After work and homework, watching your videos are my treat! Thank you!

Wow, great video and so much information, all at the same time. I just love your style. I love that you speak super quickly, clearly and with precision, all without repeating yourself! Bravo and Keep up the great work darling!

Thank you Laura! This answered a few questions I had! Heading out to do a few hard cutbacks now!

TY - your show is an excellent tutorial for us, who doesn't have time to google each plants that we need! Your garden is beautiful! THANK YOU! Will definitely buy per your sponsor!

Love your pleasant voice and method of explaining things......everything is looking beautiful.....always miss seeing the cats.

I always thought deadheading was just pinching off the bloom once it dried out. Gave me so so results. I'll cut them back this way from now on. You provide a great service. Thank you

Just seen this, so appreciate seeing this today, it's the middle of summer and it's been super hot! With that said, my perennials are looking pretty UGH. Thanks for sharing going to cut back my perennials today. Fingers crossed they will re bloom! thanks again.

Just love the videos and of course Russell - he’s the King!

Awww...Dexter 🐈🐈🐱🐱 he was so cute 😻😸

I smiled watching this episode; first because I just watched you weekly update in 2023 where you and Aaron discussed how much you dislike dianthus because of the short flowering time coupled with having to look at the swathe of dead flower heads, so you no longer have it in your garden. Secondly, to see your interactions with the sadly long departed Dexter. Russell and Douglas don’t always have the same manners ❤

Thank you for the strong volume on your videos! Great information! I'm glad I could hear it.

I like your technology for making flowers more beatiful. Your explanation is good.

Thanks so much for this video. This is one I really needed. So helpful. I just love your place. Looks like paradise.

Very helpful in identifying which method for cleaning up the plants. I love it when you include the kitty.

I really enjoy your videos. Very informative and sweet. I just planted 3 PW Rose Mallow, love them. Thank you for making life wonderful.

Thank you so much. I just started planting thanks to a lot of your tips and this helps. I am always not sure what to cut back and how. Thanks again.

Dexter steals the show 🤗🐈

Aww I miss Dexter! Super helpful video still to this day.

I am learning so much from your videos! You often suggest referring to the information that comes with the plants. Especially with as many varieties as you have in your gardens, do you have a practical system for organizing all those little plastic tabs?

Thanks again Laura! With this Texas sun & heat, oh Lordy, .....😳😳. I'm now not hesitant about pruning.

Thank you so much ....I have just found you ..I could watch your videos all day.......and we live in the same state...which makes it awesome

Great advice, cinematic video, and good lighting! 💯

I'd like long videos sometimes (like garden tours and such), BUT I like the way that many of your videos are focused on very specific topics. When I'm searching for information for a project, I can almost always find it in one of your videos (you title them so well). I can count on your videos being thorough but short enough that I can dash out to the garden and use what you've just taught me. (Also, I'm highly distractible and get easily pulled down rabbit holes if there's too much in one video!). Bottom line for me: BRAVO!! Keep up the great job - I trust your judgement!

I was distracted by the kitty the whole time haha so cute!!!

(The first dianthus... you could put the few nice buds in a vase, then shear the rest.)

Yes I agree you get right to the points very clear so would be great to see the project completed 😎

I love watching gardening videos while I work in the garden.

So much to learn and so little time. You are a great teacher.

thanks for the video- beautiful kitty! 💐😻

Your videos could never be too long! Great information again today, thanks so much for sharing. Looking forward to the next vid :) P.S. I'd love to see a garden video from Dexter's perspective! His favourite spots to play, watch birds and critters and tuck in for a nap. I love thay you include him - he's gorgeous and sweet

Love your Garden. You are a great gardener. More helpful than most. Thankyou.

Thanks for the helpful tips to enjoy our beautiful gardens.

Your videos are so amazing. It would be really great if you could add names of plants in subtitles when you talk about the plants. For all the new gardeners out there, your videos are so inspiring for getting new ideas and information. But sometimes it's hard to get the names right . Love your videos!

I love that cat, a good companion.

you have a fantastic garden! it's more gardens within gardens. beautiful.

Great video and I love that you give your cat, Russell some love too.❤

Looking back today at this video Russell is there watching what a good boy I miss him.

I so enjoy your knowledge. It encourages me to get out in my garden.

I went right out and did a hard cutdown on my coreopsis and other perennials that were in survival mode because of this heat. I transformed the brown dead looking bush into small green two inch stems...much better! Since I fertilized it last week I just watered and added mulch around it. Hopefully, it will come back. Thank you.

I love your kitty helper!

That Dexter kitty loves you SO much!

Very helpful once again. Thanks Laura!

Thankyou...A fantastic tutorial. The BEST I've found so far.. thanks again...All the way from Western Australia

THANK YOU!!!! I am always so confused as to which ones to prune and how to do it, this was so helpful. I grow herbs and some of them are looking a little ratty right now but I don't want to injure the plant by doing the wrong thing. Love your video's, I've learned a lot!

I love her videoso they are sooo HELPFUL!!!♡

Wish I had a green house to get all those beautiful plants - your very lucky to have such beautiful flower beds

Thank you for your videos. I've learned so much from you.🌹💐🌺

Would love a video that shows your compost pile...and any progress on your vegetable garden.

Thank you for this video! Very educational and informative!

Fantastic another dose of gardenAnswer...... just what the Doctor ordered !

I must admit I love your cat! I also love your videos!

This was very helpful! Thank you, so fun to watch your videos.

thank you for this video and love that beautiful kitty ❤️

I live in zone six and this video is so timely. I was wondering about cutting back my catmint. For the past couple of years I’ve deadheaded my candy dianthus but I’m thinking of doing as you did here by the handful. I’ve gotten to where I just start regretting July because everything that was so beautiful just isn’t anymore. So, cleaning it up and putting a couple of hardscape focal points out to carry the blank spots through until the mums come in is my plan. Thanks for the pruning lesson I’m more confident going forward.

I find this so complicated when I have a hundred different plants in my garden to remember and I have a memory worse than a goldfish but at least now I know the right questions to ask at the garden centre. Thank you!

I think you should consider running the cut back stuff through a chipper shredder and putting it back down on the garden, then put mulch on top of that so it looks nice. Composting in place is easier IMO and it returns the organic matter back to the soil. (Sustainable)

Hey! This video was very informative! Thanks for the tips!

As always, very helpful!

how can you be that pretty doing all those garden chores?!?

I love your videos...I also live in zone 5...thank you

Excellent speaker....wow, I wish I could speak my thought as fast, amazing talent and she does it breathing at the same time.

Wow just found this and you had this packed with good info loved it.

Excellant you obviously know your stuff, i will get cracking on my unruly salvias. and wild valerian thank you more please !

Good things to think about. The heat is on and some of my plants look tired. Thanks!

really enjoy your work...thanks

Beautiful hair, Laura! Pretty 😻😀