Cutting Back Cast Iron Plant Aspidistra Elatior
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- UPDATE: I'm seeing new growth first of March so you should probably cut Cast Iron plants back in February in Zone 8b to prevent cutting tips off of new leaves. (Adjust this time depending on your zone). Cutting Back Cast Iron Plant Aspidistra Elatior. I've had these in my yard for about 15 years and they have never been cut back or trimmed. In this video I show cutting them back, clean up and also an update on my Cottage Bed in the winter and an update on the bulbs planted in a recent video.
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Thank you for teaching me I stay in Louisiana and a client wanted me to trim his you helped me a lot
You are welcome...Mine are still looking pretty good this year...I did this trim last year...
You certainly did a good job! My husband cut down my aspees :) in Dec 2022 the same way you did. New aspees began to appear a week ago, April 2023. These plants had been planted and thinned by myself for more than 30 years. I am older now, 71, and now have to adjust my gardening to my worn out knees, back, and hands of gardening .Yesterday I began to chop and dig to get up the roots. I am now going to buy a reciprocating saw to cut down into the rhizomes which are extremely rock hard and cannot be dug up. I have two large ceramic pots to place on either side of my back steps to have aspidistras in those. The ground will have bulbs transplanted from other areas of my yard to complete this as well as purple ajuga and a variety of fern. I never thought when we purchased this property that we would get old and not be able to keep up the gardens. I have enjoyed every minute spent in my garden and will continue to enjoy working in my garden, just a different way. As the saying goes, a gardener's work is never done. Your garden is reflective of your love for Mother Nature. I live in hot, dry south Georgia.
I can certainly relate to getting older...I'll be 60 in June! We get so hot here too...I try and get all my major gardening done before it turns off hot...which is Usually around May15th!
@@cindythompsonthecottagegarden Hello. I worked three days last week while the weather was unusually cool for my area in south Georgia. This is the coolest Memorial Day many areas have had in a good many years. It has been in the low 70s for almost a week now with temps reaching into the lows 80s. The aspidistras I thinned out are a gorgeous green and are almost 8" tall. I transplanted fern from other areas in my garden to either side of the steps. I have hostas (these I have had for many years) in ceramic pots next to the house. I kept the aspidistras about 8" away from the house. The ajuga and prayer plants are growing nicely in the shaded areas in front of the aspidistras.All these plants, except for the ferns, are passalong plants, aspidistras from a friend in South Carolina, ajuga and prayer plant from friends here in town. I treasure my plants I receive from my garden friends. I am happy with my pretty back entrance.
I loved the technique to chop the leaves with the mower. Great video! S2
love the way you vacuumed the back yard. 😂. 👍🏽. I laugh, but I actually need to give attention to my cast iron bed too.
Lol thanks! Mine are looking perfect still. They came and even with 106 degrees and an exceptional drought no burnt tips!
I love to watch you garden
Thanks so much...you have made my day...
@@cindythompsonthecottagegardenand you made mine, cantvwait for more hun, I love when I get to see you out there, I learn alot better from hands on
I love the videos without music! Can really hear the pretty birds
They were all in the field beside me...I actually stopped and when out and videoed them and I had thought about adding it in...! They have been here for about 3 days in the mornings
@@cindythompsonthecottagegarden I love birds! Except chickens which dig up all my mulch and peck my veggies to death
@@jcrane45585 I don't have chickens but if eggs continue to go up I may have to get some
That was savage. I Think I would have trimmed back the damage and cleaned out the rubbish at the bottom. Hope you start seeing results.
They are BEAUTIFUL. I'll just took a picture yesterday, and i've posted it Just FOR YOU!! lol.. on my facebook page The Cottage Garden (im in Jonesville LA ) please know they had been there a looooong time like 15 or so years and I had NEVER cut them back...and even after an EXCEPTIONAL drought..that's one up from Extreme! here in Louisiana...not one burnt or fried tip! Oh and it only took a few months for them to grow back!
Great video can’t wait to see what you plant with the cast iron
I think I'm just going to run my tiller down the front around the front and toss some seeds...survival of the fittest LOL..I don't think i'll need anything when they put back out...but something to hide the grow out stage would be good...Thanks for Watching! Again!
Great video! I'm in Memphis, Zone 7b. My Cast Iron is completely brown. I'm going to do what you did, and hope for the best. Thanks!
There wasn't hardly one leaf that didn't have damage. It was time! (don't wait too late or it will shoot up new leaves and you'll cut the tips).
@@cindythompsonthecottagegarden Going out tomorrow morning. I didn't realize that wasps could be in there. Thanks for the heads-up about that.
@@audreybaird007 you're welcome!
@@audreybaird007 There were 3 nest in mine...I saw 2 of them and then there was one just laying in the leaves...I didn't see one wasp..if they had been there they could have probably stung me..and I'm allergic..swell up and have to go get a shot.
@@cindythompsonthecottagegarden oh my gosh, so glad you weren't stung! I love Cast Iron plants. One of the really good shade loving plants, but are not easy to get up here in Memphis.
That makes me want a push mower just like that! I might need that information.
I use it all the time to chop up leaves for mulch.
I'll try and remember to take a picture and post it LOL..
That is a mulching mower. I had one for years and used it for my compost pile as well as ground cover around my shrubs.
@@kathrynleavell8119 I'm actually using it right now...cleaning up my meandering shade bed and picking up all the leaves that fell it it this fall andwinter..we are both tired lol
Can you come chop all the leaves in my yard too?! Might have to watch out for all the doggy "land mines" though! 🤣🤣
I remember when you would come over to play with Candy one time and I stared a fire and yall would run all over the yard to get a stick to burn..cleaned my yard right up..and they tree house yall built! It's gone now but those boards were there for years.
@@cindythompsonthecottagegarden Those were the good ol days!
I dig trenches in my vegetable patch, and deposit the old Aspidistra leaves in the trench.
Right in thick growth wasps do get in
I was lucky and didn't see any wasp just nest!
I never cut my Aspidistra, although sometimes you just gotta do it. They are sooooooo slow growing, so it will take years and years for them to grow back in full glory.
This was my first time cutting them back and the have actually came back beautifully, so full and lush and green...ill try and remember to take a picture today and post on my Facebook page for you... today is june 14th 2023 and I think I cut these back January or February. Look me up on Facebook The Cottage Garden. Thanks for watching!
I have those same plants in front of my house and around. Thanks for showing me how to fix them. About how long does it take for them to grow back?
LOL I don't know!! I'll keep you updated...
the cast iron plant requires deep shade, otherwise, the sun will scorch the leaves.
We are in a drought and I'm surprised no burned leaves yet...I just watered them.
Nice job! I need to do that on mine 😊 what kind of saw did you use? Thanks for sharing
That's my hedge bush trimmers...They worked perfectly
Add some woodland phlox!
I had to go look it up! I love that...my momma gave me some years ago. I'll see it every once in a while...I think I cut it down before it blooms...
They last a long time and mine got frozen stems are green leaves are bad
Mine are starting to shoot up new leaves...I saw the first new leaves about 2 weeks ago...so Early March Is when new growth appeared here in Louisiana Zone 8b...so be sure and cut back before first of March or risk cutting the tips off your new leaves!
That was brutal - they are cut individualy so that the younger ones are left...
Aspidistra leaves should be cut off in their second year. I see many beds of Aspidistras that look forlorn and unsightly because the gardener doesn’t know that older leaves need to be removed.
Mine had looked ok for a while...and I didn't know when I should cut them and when I researched I didn't see a whole lot out there so I just chopped them off...So I should cut them off every other year now? I know when they get to looking rough I'll cut them again for sure...