How do you prune a blue spirea?
- Examine your blue beard in late winter or early spring for emerging buds along the twiggy stems.
- Cut down to live buds, removing any winter-damaged top growth anywhere from 3 inches to 1 foot above the ground.
- Prune plants back by half to control their size when you are in a frost-free climate.
Keeping this in view, how do you prune a blue mist spirea?
Cut back the shrub in late winter or early spring when its new growth begins. Remove all old, dead stem tips back to the healthy growth, and shape the shrub as desired. Prune the plant to the ground if it dies back completely during winter or to encourage denser new growth.
- Cut off the flower heads after the plant finishes flowering.
- Trim off the ends of branches in early spring to create a shrub with a rounded form about 2 feet tall.
- Cut all of the shrub's stems to 3 to 4 inches long every three years to renew the plant and to control its size.
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Similarly, it is asked, when should I prune Bluebeard?
Prune your bluebeard shrub in the early spring. The ideal time to prune the bluebeard is before the buds have broken and the shrub is still dormant. This way, the cuts begin to heal right away.
Grow your Bluebeard plant in full sun or very light shade. Water regularly and thoroughly until the plant is well established, then water moderately. Blue Mist shrubs can be cut back to within a couple inches of the ground in winter or very early in the spring to encourage dense, tightly branched new growth.