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Please Don’t Prune Like I Did…

October 15, 2009

Flowers, in case you were wondering.

A little background info:

Four years ago, I planted 3 Pee Gee Hydrangea trees at my front door and I hoped to maintain them as little ornamentals similar to this:

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Pretty, right?

For the first three years, this worked.

Last fall, I took the pruning shears and whacked these little trees to shreds.   I was probably thinking about something else, but when I finished the Running Man said, “Will the tree recover from that?”  And I took a long look and said, “Whoops”.

And this spring, I have this to show for it:

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This is the sign of a tree (or in this case 2) in monster distress.

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Because I pruned these trees to the pulp, they sent out shoots in all directions, curving, askew, crying for help!

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See where I hacked the limbs in 2 spots here?  I sincerely thought they would just re-grow, but now we’re all clear that they in fact do not.  You can see where the new shoots go crazy trying to find new places to escape.

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Here’s another shot of the jungle I’ve created.

So if you have any advice for my tree problem, I would love to hear it.  If I ever offer pruning advice, you can point me back to this.

Lesson learned.

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2 Comments »

  1. Whitney Trujillo

      on October 15, 2009 11:02 am

    Oh no! I’m very sorry, but that is too funny! I would have absolutely made the same mistake!

     

  2. marla

      on October 17, 2009 8:33 am

    Oh dear!!!

     

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