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Posted by gardengal_co z5 CO (My Page) on Wed, Oct 21, 09 at 12:20
| I have several overgrown shrubs in my yard and have started to prune and shape them, however, after cutting some back there remains the stumps from the various branches or shoots... will these die back eventually? can I cut below the ground level? or do I just have to "live" with the base of the cut shrub?
Because these shrubs were pretty ignored over the years there is a lot of base that shows... Thanks for any input from this forum. |
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| are we talking about conifers.. or flowering shrubs??? if conifers.. what kind??? .. MOST do not sprout from cut stumps... otherwise.. it would really help for us to know what it is.. before we can speculate about what will happen ... ken |
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- Posted by brandon7 6b (like 7b now) TN (My Page) on
Wed, Oct 21, 09 at 14:04
| When doing rejuvenating pruning, it's best not to cut below ground. You can usually cut the stumps fairly low (maybe an inch or so above the root collar/crown), but you don't want to go down into the soil or cut into the root collar. The stumps will rot away and the shrub can better seal out the wounded area. |
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| If rejuvenation is done properly on appropriate shrubs, in a year or so you won't see the stubs in the base any more. |
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| I noticed that my dappled willow shrub had a crossing branch, there was nothing to do about it but cut it down to the base. I cut it sometime in summer, and by Aug./Sept. there was new growth from the base covering the stub, as if I had pinched out the growing tip on an herbaceous plant. I know willows are fast growing, relatively soft-wooded shrubs. I don't have enough experience myself to know if all shrubs do this or not. Also had to remove a crossing branch on my serviceberry, I know I didn't get my courage up until late in the growing season. I'll have to go out tomorrow and take a look at what happened with that. |
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