Prune only last summer’s flower stems. Start feeding now until October
November with aluminum sulphate to promote blue bloom. Move any shrubs up to 1
m high positioned wrongly in your garden. Shrubs transplanted easily include
abelia, azalea, esacallonia, Mexican orange and veronica, not daphne and
luculia.
Prune deciduous trees which have shed their leaves now that branch formation is seen. Seal cut with paint to prevent bleeding. Prepare holes for planting deciduous trees. Replace poor soil with a good loam mixed with rotted cow or organic manure. Prune wisterias now they have lost their leaves. Take all climbing tendrils back to the first pair of side buds; you will get no blooms away from short lateral spurs. How to send flowers to philippines in discounted rate through www.philippinesflowersdelivery.com/
In tropical zone
Prune mussaenda quiet heavily now for Christmas display. Without regular quite sever pruning. It will become very straggly. Fertilize with blood and bone or well-rotted chicken manure mixed with soil around leaf canopy, or use a high nitrogen chemical fertilizer.
Trim native shrubs, removing old deeds wood, and apply a handful of blood and bone to the smaller ones, two handfuls to larger shrubs. Gently rake in around shrubs, removing any weeds.
In cold zones
Azaleas and rhododendrons flourish in most cold areas in full sunlight or semi shade (but not deep shade) in well composted acid soil, well drained and protected from wind. Their roots are shallow, so be careful not to hoe too deeply or add fertilizer close to the main stem.
Now it is the time to start removing any tree you don’t want. Some trees, too large to dug, out are killed with herbicide, +before or after being cut down. Drill several holes downward into the trunk about 20mm wide and 60 mm long and fill with diesel fuel or kerosene. Cork the whole. You may have to repeat this before it finally dies.
Avoid aimless pruning. There is more harm than good in cutting back flowering shrubs in the hope of spring flowers. Most shrubs put out flowering wood at summer’s end, so pruning now removes all the shape or vigor of a shrub prune right after flowering.
Top-dress alpine plants and cuttings with compost or stone chippings. A layer of straw over any hairy type of alpine plant will protect it from rotting in very wet conditions.
Bulbs
Prune deciduous trees which have shed their leaves now that branch formation is seen. Seal cut with paint to prevent bleeding. Prepare holes for planting deciduous trees. Replace poor soil with a good loam mixed with rotted cow or organic manure. Prune wisterias now they have lost their leaves. Take all climbing tendrils back to the first pair of side buds; you will get no blooms away from short lateral spurs. How to send flowers to philippines in discounted rate through www.philippinesflowersdelivery.com/
In tropical zone
Prune mussaenda quiet heavily now for Christmas display. Without regular quite sever pruning. It will become very straggly. Fertilize with blood and bone or well-rotted chicken manure mixed with soil around leaf canopy, or use a high nitrogen chemical fertilizer.
Trim native shrubs, removing old deeds wood, and apply a handful of blood and bone to the smaller ones, two handfuls to larger shrubs. Gently rake in around shrubs, removing any weeds.
In cold zones
Azaleas and rhododendrons flourish in most cold areas in full sunlight or semi shade (but not deep shade) in well composted acid soil, well drained and protected from wind. Their roots are shallow, so be careful not to hoe too deeply or add fertilizer close to the main stem.
Now it is the time to start removing any tree you don’t want. Some trees, too large to dug, out are killed with herbicide, +before or after being cut down. Drill several holes downward into the trunk about 20mm wide and 60 mm long and fill with diesel fuel or kerosene. Cork the whole. You may have to repeat this before it finally dies.
Avoid aimless pruning. There is more harm than good in cutting back flowering shrubs in the hope of spring flowers. Most shrubs put out flowering wood at summer’s end, so pruning now removes all the shape or vigor of a shrub prune right after flowering.
Top-dress alpine plants and cuttings with compost or stone chippings. A layer of straw over any hairy type of alpine plant will protect it from rotting in very wet conditions.
Bulbs
Cannas and ginger lilies can be cut back hard, and exposed
roots covered well with mulch. Check caladiums which have died down.
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