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Apr 28, Fragrant, colorful lilacs are easy to grow in most regions. Whether your lilac is a shrub or a small tree, it will need to be regularly pruned in order to maintain a healthy shape and size.
To prune lilacs, get to work in the spring: cut 75%(4). How to Prune Lilac Bushes For the absolutely perfectly shaped lilac bush, you need to prune them each year. Pruning lilac bushes is a very important part of growing and caring for Lilacs.
Determine if your lilac was grafted.
While some varieties only grow 4 to 8 feet, others can reach up to 30 feet tall. Most Lilac bushes will grow in. The Best Time to Trim a Lilac Bush. Lilac bushes are capable of producing huge quantities of blooms in colors ranging from pure white to deep purple.
Many varieties' flowers have a strong. Dec 13, Pruning Vitex. Vitex is also called chaste tree (no idea why) and Texas lilac (although it’s not fragrant and is unrelated to true lilacs).
When I was a kid in College Station, vitex shrubs filled corners of backyards. City lots were much bigger then, and it wasn’t uncommon for the plants to grow 15 or 18 feet tall and 20 feet wide.
Dec 10, How to Prune Dwarf Lilac Bushes. Dwarf lilacs -- various Syringa species and cultivars -- are prized for their clusters of fragrant blooms and a compact growth habit. Dwarf lilacs generally. 2. Prune out one-third of the older stems of all three shrubs each year after flowering has stopped; this will be in the spring for lilacs and forsythia and late summer or fall for Rose of Sharon.