By Julie Christensen Updated October 08,

Oct 07, Cut Back: Chrysanthemum This vibrant star of fall’s flowering plants can be cut back after they’ve bloomed or been hit by a hard frost.

Trim the plant down to about six or eight inches from the soil. Leaving some of the stems can help hold leaves or other mulch that can insulate the plant from harmful freeze-and-thaw bushfelling.barted Reading Time: 5 mins.

Mar 24, Winter is an ideal time to prune, as the lack of leaves on deciduous trees and shrubs enables you to see what you’re doing more clearly. What’s more, since sap is not as active during the. Evergreen trees and shrubs. Evergreen trees and shrubs do not lose their leaves in winter and do not store food reserves in their roots.

Pruning in autumn and winter could potentially damage the plant, as it can unbalance the root to shoot ratio during a period when it is too cold to regrow. The best time to prune is after flowering. If the plant needs to be renovated, or severely reduced, this can be done late winter.

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A good rule of thumb is that if the plant blooms on new growth, it can be pruned in winter, before the new season's growth begins and after the final bloom of the year. Be careful with spring-blooming shrubs- those usually can't be pruned in winter without damaging the flower buds and ruining the blooming bushfelling.barted Reading Time: 4 mins. Oct 08, Annuals and vegetables die with the first cold weather, and should be uprooted and relegated to the compost heap or trash.

In general, you should prune shrubs and trees in late winter or.

Some deciduous shrubs don't produce attractive flowers.

Feb 25, When and How to Prune Butterfly BushesPruning Butterfly Bushes is easy. This video shows you how to prune and when to do it. I have been pruning butterfly bu Author: Specific Love Creations.