How to Prune Evergreen Perennials - Five Minute Friday
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- How to Prune Evergreen Perennials - Five Minute Friday - In this video I demonstrate cutting back some evergreen perennials and grass like plants in the garden. Knife - amzn.to/40E39K3
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I love these 5 minute Fridays. Great instructional video on cutting back "some types" of perennials.
Jim and Stephanie, thank you for five minute Fridays !!!
Holly is such a beautiful dog who loves her garden and you!!!!!!
Always enjoy your videos. I am happy to see you use a pruning knife as a pruning tool in the garden. I started using a grape knife, about 4 years ago, after seeing a video on how to properly cut back/trim flax. I always see them looking either hacked or butchered, if pruned back at all, to take off tattered or sun burned leaves. I think the pruning knife is a very under used garden tool and with someone who has tendonitis and can feel it from her hand to her elbow for several days after doing any reasonable amount of pruning/deadheading with by-pass pruners, being able to slice through soft branches/stocks/vines/tufts of grass with ease has been a gardening game changer for me. My grape knife is great for getting weeds out of side walk cracks, too. When my local garden center gets them, I always pick up a couple, so I always have a back up if I dull the blade, break the blade or forget where in the garden I set it down. It is a tool that sell out quickly when they get them in at my local garden center. I usually have the cashier ask me where I found them when I purchase them, since they are frequently requested.
I laugh every time Jim states these videos are longer than 5 minutes. Listen... I'd enjoy it just as much if it was "45 minute Fridays"! Always educational and enjoyable content. Thanks to both Jim & Steph 🫡
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These 5 min fridays and sunday Q&A are super helpful! 🙌🏾
It is interesting that Cast Iron plants are usually sold as indoor only over here in UK. But they survive quite well where you are and you guys get much colder winters. I was raised in MA then CO in USA and the winters were much more brutal than here in South ish UK. Maybe worth experimenting planting one here and seeing what happens.
Starts new video series called "Five Minute Friday", promptly publishes 16 minute video.
Just busting chops, I love your videos.
Video idea/suggestion: i have watched your in-depth garden tour videos of your entire garden, but can you do a walk-through of your evergreen plants now? Even if you don't go into in-depth detail, it would be great if you just did a quick 10 seconds of the plant name and zone. I used to live in Florida so I'm not used to things losing their leaves, and I love getting the suggestions of the things that look great in winter. The reason a walk through is better than your evergreen plants playlist is because you've got good growth on all your stuff now, rather than just showing the plants in a 1gallon pot. Like, I would love to see just your evergreens. Not sure if you were wanting video suggestions or not, but I always notice evergreen things in people's yards when I am driving to the store, and think, ooh gosh, I wish I had that in my yard, wonder what that is!! So maybe you could show what you have. Im sure others would love to see as well.
Holly's close up at 16:03 ❤️
Holly at the fern ❤. I have my first farfugium planted last fall, so I am glad you talked about yours here. Thanks as always! I like these FMF videos.
Just love these 16 minute five minute Fridays 😜❣️
Thanks for the carex info.
Thanks Jim and Stephany. ❄️☃️💚🙃
I like that knife - better than repetitive motion of pruners tiring the hands. PS Holy Wood Chips! 😅
Thank you Jim! I love five minute Fridays!
Thank you Jim for the information on cutting back carex. I transplanted 3 in the fall and we’ve had a pretty cold winter up here in PA. They aren’t looking their best but I wasn’t sure if I could cut them back. I remember a few years ago a bunny mowed one of them down in late spring and like you said it took forever to grow back, potentially until the following season. Now I know what to do though so thank you!!
Love your five minute fridays. Appreciate the extra time on details. Aspidistra seem to serve best as a punctuation plant rather than large mass due to the maintenance. Like Hellebores, best not to have too many.
Jim, you have a mild zone...the garden looks beautiful, i am in zone 6b so in the winter almost everything dies back!😊
Great information. Thanks Jim and Stephanie for all the wonderful information.
Excellent information on the carex thank you!
Your pruning knife looks like something I need in my tool arsenal. Can you share which might be good ones to consider?
I think Holly took it personally when you suggested that the tassel fern may have been walked on.😊
Excellent info as always. I am in zone 8A NC Sandhills. Is it too early to cut back radiance abelia, kaleidoscope and Rose Creek abelias? Thanks.
We're in zone 8b in Central Texas, and I tend to prune our Abelias in late February, so I would say that it is early to do it now.
Our Mystic Spires Salvia, which were still blooming on January 5th (zone 8b, Central TX), got hit hard with the freezes earlier this month, particularly the cold storm that came through 10-12 days ago. The green growth turned to mush rather than just brown up. I had heard that leaving mushy growth on a perennial can do more harm than good, so I pruned the Mystics down to about 6" above the soil line. We'll see if I ruined them by pruning early.
I wondered about lambs ear, thanks for mentioning! Half of this video was enough to get me outside pruning (& chipping). Which perennials might you leave up longer for the insects that overwinter in them?
❓Will you put compost or mulch (or both) right over the leaves in your beds, or do you have to mulch those leave up a little more? I left my leaves on the beds this fall and just wondering how you do this? 🤔
I don't mind getting a few more minutes of Holly!!!!
That’s my thoughts exactly!
I know lavender plants do not count as herbaceous perennials, but should i cut my phenomenal lavender back the same way? They were planted May 2024 and are still small (15" tall, 10" wide; zone 8a clay soil).
Great video Jim. I have learned over the years, when to cut back my ferns - right before the new growth starts to swell. I have never cut back my carex (ice dance?) but I plan to this year. I assume the short ones die away. Just wondering - are you doing this because you don't expect any more freezing temps? Or do you do it anyway...?
Rabbits love our Carex.
When would u cut back pinstemmon? It’s a spring bloomer for us in north Texas. I might need to divide it. 😮
Jim, snow cover caused rabbits to feast on my still-exposed Carex. I assume they’ll bounce back fine by late spring? The goal was to not have to shear them. 🐇 said otherwise.
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Here in 6a pretty much nothing is evergreen even if it’s supposed to be. Especially this year with only like an inch of snow cover and how cold it’s been every thing is fried.
Aspidistra needs more shade...
Something eats my carex to the crown and I can’t figure out who. It’s definitely not deer
I had the same problem. I think it’s rabbits. I put a metal cage around it until it got bigger.