CUTTING BACK PERENNIALS IN THE FALL
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- čas přidán 9. 11. 2017
- CUTTING BACK PERENNIALS in the FALL shows you how to cut back your perennials to prepare for winter. You'll be a master gardener by the end of this how to CUT BACK PERENNIALS video. When CUTTING BACK PERENNIALS you have to be sure you don't cut in the wrong place or you can damage or kill your perennials.
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How to cut back perennials in Fall, cutting back perennials at end of season, deadheading perennials, deadleafing perennials, Foamflower, Tiarella, Hosta, Oakleaf Hydrangea, Biokovo Geranium, Gerbera Daisy, Sweet Box Shrub, Japanese Skimmia, Lenten Rose, Stella d'oro Daylily, Happy Returns Daylily, Paris Heuchera, Fairy Candles, Meadow Rue, Epimedium sulphurium, Baptisia, Baptisia australis, Stokes Aster, Mountain Bluet, Purple Coneflower, Chocolate Chip Ajuga, Little Princess Spirea, Astilbe, Husker Red Penstemon, Dawn Redwood, Allium Glaucum, Barren Strawberry, Sedum Autumn Joy, Sedum Vera Jameson, Japanese Stewartia, Korean Stewartia, Chaste Tree, Vitex agnes castes, Harlage Wine Calycanthus, Montauk Daisy,
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I just bought a house with beautiful landscaping and numbers of all kinds of perrenials. Not so familar with cutting back before winter comes so this video has been extremely helpful!
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@@CTSCAPER will do!
@@sarahcorona6673 Thanks Sarah!
I appreciate your sensitivity towards the garden. I’ve been listening between your words and instructions on pruning, which might not make sense to some. But to me it is the sign of an artist whose heart is in their art. Your passion and knowledge regarding what is growing, regarding size, shape, habitat and how the plantings relate to each other, is not only informative, but heartwarming! Thank-you for sharing this informative video.
I loved seeing the tree of many branches that you planted when you and your wife bought your home. I have to replay the video to get the name as I’m not familiar with it, but it is awesome! I have 5 grandkids who love climbing trees.
Thank you Ilene.
This video helped me as a new home owner. The previous owner loved landscaping and gardening, there's so many plants I didn't know how to winterize. Most of the folliage is now showing up after the snow melted and the property is a mess. Its good to know I can trim them and the plant will (hopefully) return this summer.
really cool to hear you talk about so many plants in one video
I just came across your video for the first time and I truly enjoyed it. I live in Connecticut not far from the Mass. border and I was hoping to find videos from Ct gardeners so that the advise applies to my garden as well. I love being outside and stick my hands in the dirt
, rain or shine, but I’m learning as I go. I don’t know all the names of my plants, I mostly acquired them from friends and I’ve enjoyed sharing them with my younger friends who wanted to expand their garden but trying to keep costs down. I have many of the same plants you do and now I knows their names and how to care for them in the fall. I look forward watching more of your videos, hoping they are as practical as this one. Good job!
Please keep adding content. You have a wealth of knowledge that needs to be past on to everyone. Thanks.
As a head groundskeeper and property manager these videos are well,done and informative . I really enjoy always getting something out of them.
Thanks for letting me know. The views for the landscaping videos is often less than for other content and knowing someone is watching will keep me making them.
Thank you for the valuable tips!
Love your gardening vids so much! Thank you
Oh yes, really enjoyed you rambling on about your beautiful garden. Learned loads too. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this video for all to see👍
I so appreciated the advice on the montauk daisies and spires. Thanks.
Beautiful fall color.
Very informative! Thanks for sharing
Very beautiful and aesthetically pleasing to the eyes. They say that the garden takes on the gardener’s personality…. And your garden shows your warm and caring personality.
I came across your video looking for what else I need to take care of in my own garden this fall’23 I started planting various bulbs a few weeks ago only to realize that the beds are loaded with them throughout.(my 4th year in this home) I am still trying to learn the plants throughout this extensive landscape. All sorts of fruit,nut, trees and shrubs.
Would you cut candytuft back at this time? Mine is looking straggly and if so how far back? I’m in western Washington; zone 8b.
Looking forward to watching more of your content. Thank you!
Great Video John, A great reminder as well that I have a lawn to cut for the last time till springtime..lol
Take Care, Stay warm and dust off the snow shovel, it's almost here..lol
Thank you so much for the wonderful video. I have been watching you for a short time but you are one of my favorites. I have learned so much from you. God bless and keep up the wonderful work you do.
Thank you Linda. Glad you're enjoying the videos.
Really nice video! Thank you!
Just planted the Dawn Redwood this year! Wow! I am excited to see it grow like yours 👍🏻
Very good!
Great video as always, thanks John! I always watch to see which plants I have and what to do with them
Glad you enjoyed it Matt. If it grows in my garden it will grow in yours. Love your thumbnail.
As much as the heat drives me nuts in my zone 8a town, I can leave all four varieties of my Sedum throughout Winter and they’re beautiful. Vera Jameson was a showstopper in pots.
John, I like the Dawn Redwood, nice and "Glowing Embers-CTS for the new plant.
Thanks for the info.
🍁🍂🌿✂️SO HELPFUL ✂️🌿🍂🍁
As always I am in awe of your knowledge and technique. As I watched you trimming that Hosta I could only think that if it were mine I would probably run the lawn mower over it. Possibly I should have a bed of "mower tolerant" plants. This of course is coming from a guy that prunes his mothers red tipped Photinia with a chain saw. You might remember I made a video about this back in 2015. I should take another video showing you how it has flourished in the last two years. I loved your climbing tree!
Thanks Prickle. The more years I do this the more I look for simpler ways to do things. People have experimented with lawnmowers to cut back perennial beds and had great success. Plants want to live and besides planting the right plant in the wrong place it's tough to kill them.
Very instructive. I leave my sedum( Autumn joy) in spring because l like its winter effect .
Wow! Such a wonderful, educational, enjoyable video! Great job! Love this type of work! Thank you!
I love bittersweet! I can’t grow it in zone 5b. Usually it’s picked wild 😜.How interesting.
I planted a red dawn cypress also.Didnt know it would get so big or grow so fast. The wood is great for crafting bird houses etc. we would
great info thank you
Glad you found the information useful.
Wow, wasn't expecting to see a Lesche digging tool! I've got 20 years in on mine and expect it to out last me.
What is your favorite pruners/shears for the dead and live growth you used in this video. There are hundreds. thanks and i appreciate your videos.
Glad to see more videos coming. Any more videos of landscape jobs coming? Saw the one with the older house and the bobo Hydrangeas
I have a walk through of that older house and planting some boxwood on that property coming.
An even easier way to do fall cleanup is to do nothing. All I do is mulch leaves. Some plants are basically reduced to nothing if left over the winter, they just kind of take care of themselves. By the time summer rolls around everything is looking good again. Why create more work than you need to? Plus all that plant matter, and leaves from trees improve the soil if mulched or just left to decompose. I've used this style of gardening and lawncare the last 3 or 4 years and it works. It just made me realize how unnecessary a lot of the work I used to do was.
Pretty much that's what I do: nothing ha ha! I leave most perennials and woody plants to winter over and just blow elm leaves into the beds to keep them warm. All major clean up happens in March/April.
@@seachange17 Exactly, instead of buying lots of mulches, I use all leaves, pine needles & other garden wastes like dead branches, grass clippings, wood chips from stump grinding, etc. to mulch my garden beds to save $$$. Yay, they’re organic mulches which enrich the soil as they decay. Yup, I do cleanup in da Fall, but instead of feed the landfill all garden wastes, I use them to insulate my landscape beds, trees bases, etc.
Thank you for saying this because I’m in a new house with many gardens and suddenly have ended up with a bunch of health issues and I can’t get to winterizing my gardens. Maybe I’ll just try leaving everything and watch how it goes. Maybe it will be healthier than this year. I had a serious pest problem.
@@LisaV751 Don't confuse what I said with doing absolutely nothing though. I'm just talking in terms of plant maintenance. I still take care of big piles of leaves or debris, leaving a small layer of leaves on the beds. Only difference is I mulch excess leaves back into the lawn instead of remove them from the property. This is still a bit of work, though I do think it's less than taking the leaves off site. I prune trees in the late winter and early spring and clean up whatever I think needs cleaning up once all the snow is gone in the spring. I think you'll find if left over the winter though, many plants are basically just nothing and can be cleaned up in about a second.
For things like hosta, what do you think about just mowing them down at the end of the season with the lawn mower? I've been doing that to my thick hosta bed. This fall, I've spread the hosta bed out by digging up many of the plants and putting them in an expanded bed.
Great video, thanks for sharing....
Glad you enjoyed the video.
CTSCAPER, pruner and soil knife two tools you can't enter the garden without....
I agree. Those darn dandelions!
Dandelions indicate compacted soil or a lack of calcium. They also make a delicious salad but I don't use chemicals or want a green lawn look.
Is it good to leave the dead cuts from pruning in the Fall on the plants to use as a compst
Ow! I didn’t like seeing you prune the helleborus. It’s mid October in CA and I just watered our wilted hellebores. They perked right up. I’m waiting for baby sprouts in the early spring.
My mountain bluet has just sprouted, and winter is coming soon in Canada. It may be -20℃ in January. Will they all freeze to death?
do you have a feeding program for those perennials or do u just let them be?
WILL daisys survive zone 5 RI the container says its a pereinnal
Wow! This video was awesome!!! Sooooo helpful as I think about prepping my own garden (first year grower here) for the upcoming seasons. I likely missed it, but do you usually start cutting back after the first frost?
When the plants start to look 'ichy' I start to cut them back. I've started earlier and earlier because it makes cleaning up leaves easier. If a plant still looks good, or has flowers, I leave it. Once it starts to look unkempt or has leaf dieback I cut it back.
@@CTSCAPER excellent! Thanks again!
Nice video John. I have my own gardening business here in England. Do you tap your sugar maples?
I've never tapped them but I have a neighbor who tapped theirs and the syrup was delicious!
Dandelions are valued by the bees.
What state are you in?? I'm new to New England and learning how to work w the seasons.
He said he is in zone 6
whats your suggestion on Liriope ,I usually give a hair cut in the fall.
I'm with you on the liriope. I had a planting that I let overwinter and it was a pain to cut it back with the new growth coming in. I haven't planted liriope in years because I consider it a high maintenance plant. Once you kneel down for a couple hours cutting it back you start to rethink the decision to plant it.
We used to raise the blades on the lawnmower and give them a good brush cut .
I live up in MA and was wondering when exactly do lilacs go dormant so I can do a heavy prune on mine?
People usually do that sort of pruning right after they bloom. I suppose you could lop off some branches over the winter if the plant is out of control.
Prune right after it finishes blooming. If you prune in the winter, you will cut off the Spring flowers.
NH Gardener here. Prune after they are done blooming right away 👍🏻
Where are you located?
What is behind the princess spirea?
The large shrub tree with the whitish pinkish flowers is a PG Hydrangea. More about that here czcams.com/video/a907dfb5rY0/video.html
Can you cut the spireas down in late fall ?
I would wait unti they are completely dormant. More early to mid winter.
What CTScaper said. Depending on how far north or south you live, I wouldn't plant in the fall at all. If you get a frost date, I would avoid fall pruning altogether. Either wait for full dormancy or better yet, just before spring bud break.
The spireas I am dealing with are on multiple different sites that my company maintains and I was just worried if we couldn't get to them in time in spring. They need cut down to refresh them. Zone 5b
@@ryankimmins5797 I haven't watched the video in a while but I think I mention spireas being sensitive to cutting back hard in the fall.
@@ryankimmins5797 Zone 5 is pretty far north. I would definitely wait until full winter dormancy to do any pruning or cutbacks. I know it seems weird to treat and care for the plants when they are dormant, but I would honestly wait until late winter. January-ish. Cheers!
Can you prune perennials in January if there is no frost?
Yes, you can cut them back any time you like. If you have a more tender perennial you may want to leave the foliage to help protect it from the elements but I usually cut everything back at once when I get to it.
Spirea
27:30 is that a hydrangea tree?
Yes, that's a PG Hydrangea.
@@CTSCAPER Thank you! I also watched your video about pruning it. Wow, what a tree it is. And also thank you for introducing me to Stewartia pseudocamellia. Not sure I have seen any of them here in the Netherlands!
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I try not to go latin often but sometimes it's just easier. Kitty is turning into quite the pill. She likes to eat constantly and if she isn't fed right away she keeps making a fuss. She also likes a snack around 4 in the morning. Not cool! She's a gentle soul and we're enjoying her companionship.
Dandelions indicate compacted soil or a lack of calcium. They also make a delicious salad but I don't use chemicals or want a green lawn look.