Ceanothus

JANE POWELL

when tidying up the garden yesterday I couldnt believe my eyes, our ceanothus has starting to flower ! I hope it still flowers in the spring. Other plants acting unusual are the dogwood also flowering again and the garya still has its catkins ??

Ceres

Well, the primroses have just started to flower.

musher

Mine has well Jane. and it will

KeenOnGreen

I too noticed last week that my Ceanothus has also got some flowers buds.  It was flowering in Spring when I bought them, didn't realise they could flower twice in a year.  I have a variegated variety, El Dorado, very pretty.

I would like to clip them into a formal hedge shape, but have read they don't like being pruned.  Does anybody have any advice about how to do so, or should I completely avoid?

musher

Breath taking if their electric blue. I've only seen them used once in a hedge row. And it was exactly that breath taking. just a fully charged electric blue halo enveloped the entire hedge.

I don't think you can cut them back hard. just a light trim. It effects the flowering. I think some flower on the previous years growth. And others on this seasons growth.

Catherine Whitehead

Don't cut them back too hard, or they will die. That is what I did, and that's what happened. 

KeenOnGreen

Thanks all.  It was just a light prune I was thinking of, but they have grown so much that it would be a bit more than that, if I were to prune them in line with the edge of the container.  I think I'll leave well alone and enjoy them as nature intended. I have topiaritis.....now what else can I trim?