Propagation: Plant propagation - the Basics, April 2017, 3 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
Yes, someone called me today to ask why their mimosa wasn't leafing out.We just had several nights of high 30's and low 40's . I told her they will start to feather out when it is above 80 for a week. that will be this next few days before the rain storms come again. I noticed that my mock orange is blooming on the bottom and not the top. Joe must have clipped them too late last fall. I told him not to clip so late after they bloom, so now he knows. My mom in law has a huge rhododendrons in front of her house in Buffalo,NY and my sis in law clipped them in October. They didn't bloom that following Spring. My Nanking cherry just got clipped since it just bloomed. I told Joe no more clipping on it this year. He did clip back all the spireas. They come back fuller and bloom more when he clips them back after blooming.My clematis are huge and the blooms are larger than ever. I have never cut them back. Should I? I clipped the mums out front, they had buds on them already. Took the cuttings from those and the Nanking to make new plants. My poor Roses all died back to the bottom and are just now coming out of it. It was a very dry winter. I had him clip back the arches where the sweet autumn and honeysuckles are going crazy. they will just make new leaders and bloom more.
Love your intruder, Ju.
Here are my intruders- I am about to have Joe use the twister on this area. Can you guess what they are? he got the big mamma Alocasia up and out and I had to have him break her babies off, now she is pouting just like they are. Her summer home is always in front of the lilac bush facing East. The second pic is her spot. Now she is in it. when she perks up I'll take another pic. The passion vine didn't like the cold the other night. can you see her pouting? Pineapple I started from a cut top last fall is liking it in it's summer home.Lastly is my Baltimore oriole pigging out on the hummer feeders.

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