How do you keep lobelia blooming all summer? To extend the blooming period of lobelia in summer or encourage a second bloom,you can trim your plants at any time of the year. This encourages another flush of blooms, maintains their overall look, and some gardeners even prune the plant at ...
Never prune more than a third of the shrub's total foliage. When it comes to the first pruning, less is better. You can always cut more, but you can't un-cut branches. Always use clean, sanitized tools — generally hand pruners, loppers, or a saw, depending on the diameter of the...
I talk to her sometimes when I walk over to the park and look at her memorial tree, the one I had to go and prune myself with Jane last fall, because the park district here knows nothing about trees and lets things die everywhere. I will not go into that again but you know that ...
But other things, I mean camellias are kind of self-cleaning, like an oven [laughter]. The flowers turn brown and they sort of fall off. But you can help that along and just go to the flowers and just sort of snap them off. And if you need to you can prune it. But as w...