blooming shrubs

  • Allow flowering shrubs to bloom before pruning
    By George Bonnema, Luverne Horticulturalist
    March 22, 2022
    Last week I encouraged you to get started cleaning up and pruning your landscape. There are a few plants that I do not want you to prune now. This list includes all forms of lilacs, weigela, forsythia, spring-blooming spirea, mock orange, azaleas, and rhododendron. All of these shrubs have their flower buds formed in the buds of new growth, and any pruning now will remove potential flowers. For…
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