Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Pruning Japanese Maples, 0 by PudgyMudpies

PudgyMudpies wrote:
Hi Anna,
are these perhaps Abutilons? Kind of hard to tell, but that is what it looks like to me. I have several, they all live outside and bloom year around here. I prune them back whenever the mood strikes me. I have cut them down to within a foot of the ground with no ill effects, but usually I just prune to shape. I have one out front that is an actual tree and that is really leggy and never bushes, and I really butcher that puppy back to just little nubs off the trunk when it gets to where it is almost pushing itself over off the wall. The only reason I don't prune them in the winter is because the hummingbirds feed off them all winter and I don't have the heart to take away a food source.
Hope that helps. :~)
Donna