Hi, I have 3 of these shrubs, flowers are white, one can just about still be seen in the 2nd pic. What are they please? I’d like to give them a good chopping as they are getting a bit big. Is this a good time to do it?
Looks to me like a form of spiraea. You could do renovation pruning any time now and cut it back hard but I would suggest instead that you cut it back by half now and do another prune in spring after the ravages of winter have done their worst.
In spring, cut out any obvious dead and broken stems and then cut what's left all the way down to a pair of buds or else cut half the stems to the base and leave the rest as they are. That way you'll get new growth and probably more flowers.
The following spring you then cut out all the stems you left longer and that way the whole shrub is renewed and you can keep it to size with a light trim in future years and by removing a third of the old stems every spring so it goes on a 3 year renewal cycle and stays healthy.
Give it a generous handful of slow release fertiliser ever spring to help it along.
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Ah I was going to suggest it might be spirea, though I have another spirea with a long pendulous white flower, so I thought maybe something different. The maintenance you have suggested sounds good, I’ll do half now, thank you.
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In spring, cut out any obvious dead and broken stems and then cut what's left all the way down to a pair of buds or else cut half the stems to the base and leave the rest as they are. That way you'll get new growth and probably more flowers.
The following spring you then cut out all the stems you left longer and that way the whole shrub is renewed and you can keep it to size with a light trim in future years and by removing a third of the old stems every spring so it goes on a 3 year renewal cycle and stays healthy.
Give it a generous handful of slow release fertiliser ever spring to help it along.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
The maintenance you have suggested sounds good, I’ll do half now, thank you.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw