I have a big photonics that has grown into a 15 foot tree. Last Year I lopped the top off back to about 8 feet, but it's much too wide. It only has leaves on the last foot or so of each branch. How hard can I prune it? I assume I have to leave some leaves but I'd like to take off as much as possible.
...I think you can hard prune these...I used to cut mine back quite hard into old wood, about June time.... top and sides... I don't have one currently so I'm going back a bit... but it recovered soon enough....as I recall....
Thanks Salino. In another thread someone has suggested cutting back to old wood on some of the branches and waiting for them to shoot before attacking the others. I assume it needs some leaves to survive!
I also need some help please - I have 3 fairly large standard photinias. , 1 looks healthy and the other two very thin. there are lots of leaves dropping off and they are new leaves. I have googled it and am not sure whether I need to give it lots of water or not water it (as one piece I read said they don't like their roots water logged) I am at a loss what to do. I wanted them to be big and bushy to hide the neighbours view into my garden. Do I water and feed with growmore (I also read that somewhere) I am anxious to prune it ......I am at a loss and new to gardening......although I have got the gardening bug....your help and advice would be much appreciated
Can anyone assist please. i am a novice at gardening. We have just moved back to our old house, the red robin (mother in law tells me thats what it is) is fully established and about 9 years old, it has not been maintained since we left and has grown to around 25 foot tall and 10 foot wide It looks beautiful but needs pruning and reshaping.
Having looked at it, all the shoots and leaves are on the end of the branches, we are looking at taking it back to where it was previously (the old branches can be seen as dead where it was cut years ago), my question is if I cut it back this far it will be bare so will it regrow? I can post a picture if that helps.
I thought I'd add my question to this thread rather than create a new one. I know there are loads on Red Robin without another!
Anyway, after reading some advice on here I pruned back some of this years new red growth and, as noted, it has done it the world of good and now I have another, more vibrant, flush of red growth. My question is, should I leave this now or prune / ('trim') back again? The size of the shrub is not a problem, just looking to keep it in the best nick.
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I have a big photonics that has grown into a 15 foot tree. Last Year I lopped the top off back to about 8 feet, but it's much too wide. It only has leaves on the last foot or so of each branch. How hard can I prune it? I assume I have to leave some leaves but I'd like to take off as much as possible.
...I think you can hard prune these...I used to cut mine back quite hard into old wood, about June time.... top and sides... I don't have one currently so I'm going back a bit... but it recovered soon enough....as I recall....
Thanks Salino. In another thread someone has suggested cutting back to old wood on some of the branches and waiting for them to shoot before attacking the others. I assume it needs some leaves to survive!
I also need some help please - I have 3 fairly large standard photinias. , 1 looks healthy and the other two very thin. there are lots of leaves dropping off and they are new leaves. I have googled it and am not sure whether I need to give it lots of water or not water it (as one piece I read said they don't like their roots water logged) I am at a loss what to do. I wanted them to be big and bushy to hide the neighbours view into my garden. Do I water and feed with growmore (I also read that somewhere) I am anxious to prune it ......I am at a loss and new to gardening......although I have got the gardening bug....your help and advice would be much appreciated
Can anyone assist please. i am a novice at gardening. We have just moved back to our old house, the red robin (mother in law tells me thats what it is) is fully established and about 9 years old, it has not been maintained since we left and has grown to around 25 foot tall and 10 foot wide It looks beautiful but needs pruning and reshaping.
Having looked at it, all the shoots and leaves are on the end of the branches, we are looking at taking it back to where it was previously (the old branches can be seen as dead where it was cut years ago), my question is if I cut it back this far it will be bare so will it regrow? I can post a picture if that helps.
Thanks
Thanks for the reply. Despite repeated tries I cannot upload any photos. I keep receive ing the following error.
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With lots of spiel underneath and forces me to close Safari. Any ideas?
I have resized the images as well to 500mb
I thought I'd add my question to this thread rather than create a new one. I know there are loads on Red Robin without another!
Anyway, after reading some advice on here I pruned back some of this years new red growth and, as noted, it has done it the world of good and now I have another, more vibrant, flush of red growth. My question is, should I leave this now or prune / ('trim') back again? The size of the shrub is not a problem, just looking to keep it in the best nick.
Thanks.