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Posted by Annie_qld QLDAust (My Page) on Thu, Aug 18, 05 at 6:33
I have two tibouchinas "Jazzie".
Unfortunately, I've let them get a bit leggy.
Can I prune them severely? even if that means I'll only have stalks left? and is now the time to do it?
They got that way because they never seem to stop flowering. I kept waiting for them to stop so I could trim them but the little cherubs just kept producing!
cheers,
Annie |
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RE: Tibouchinas
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- Posted by Liatris FraserCoast,Qld (My Page) on
Thu, Aug 18, 05 at 15:57
| From looking at my neighbour's tree, if you prune it back to just to stumps it may not come back (maybe someone with a bit of experience will come along and tell me I'm wrong, in which case you can hack away to your heart's content). Where I pruned the growth on my side, last year, to the lowest growth on the tree, it has shot back very well, and created new growth lower down. |
RE: Tibouchinas
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| It may be that you have to leave some green on it? |
RE: Tibouchinas
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- Posted by Liatris FraserCoast,Qld (My Page) on
Fri, Aug 19, 05 at 17:13
| Annie, I found the following enquiry in the letters section of Your Garden of July 1985. The question was,
Is it possible to prune back my lasiandra bush which has become rather sparse and leggy and when would be the most suitable time? The response: The best time to prune your lasiandra (now more correctly called Tibouchina) is in late winter as flowering should be mostly finshed by then. It can withstand quite hard pruning which will stimulate bushy growth. Remove any dead or spindly stems completely. I don't know whether that's of any use to you or not, but when I'm awake at 2am and reading, I rather be thinking of something other than Gardenweb posts. lol |
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