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Tue, May 17, 11 at 21:50
| I have three minuet laurel shrubs that were damaged when heavy snow fell from the roof two winters ago. The centers were broken out of each plant. Two have small amounts of regrowth in the center, but the third has none. They are healthy otherwise and have an abundance of beautiful buds on them right now. I am wondering how far back I can safely cut them back to encourage full growth or whether they will never regrow evenly. They do put out plenty of new growth on the areas that were not affected by the snow. Any ideas? |
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| First off I would move them where the snow won't injure them when it falls off the roof. Why do you want them to grow evenly? They will fill in eventually. Here's one of mine. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, May 19, 11 at 10:15
| my best idea is to love them for what they are .. instead of forcing some preconception of how they should look .. a lot of us hardcore.. actually work under the 'weirder the better' theory.. rather than a bunch of duplicate soldiers lined up in a row .... and snow load can make some interesting plants .. lol .. if you dont like them.. get rid of them ... but before you do that.. hack one up.. and see if you can train it back to what you want ... w/o a pic there is not much else to suggest .. life is too short.. to deal with plants that are not pleasing you .... be done with them if they are irritating you... ken |
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