I know this is an old post but I have a Viburnum plicatum . I had some storm damage a couple years ago and had lost a lot of it. What was left growing was a stem so I let it grow and see what happens. Now it looks like a very odd tree. Not sure if I should prune it or not . Any advice would be appreciated!
I would let it grow out. Use flat cuts to get it into a shrub like shape first, and then let it really grow out. Then selectively prune. Most of these are multiple trunks. It grows naturally as a shrub with multiple stems. The pruning in the video is a specialized technique to train it into a tree form. That might take a while with your tree, but what you would do is select three to five good trunks and then prune back from there.
thank you for the niwaki on the V, plicatum. I personally think this var should be allowed to grow its full 15ft height, but kept healthy with interior straight shoots being lopped out, to achieve the glorious draping cascading effects. Move the path instead lol.
Thank you for your comment. I appreciate it. On some other properties, I just do some skirting (removing the lower branches that touch the ground) and let the V. plicatum grow to its full height as a proper shrub.
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I have a viburnum Kilimanjaro and I'm staring at it wondering which direction it's supposed to be growing - no clue how to prune it up!
I know this is an old post but I have a Viburnum plicatum . I had some storm damage a couple years ago and had lost a lot of it. What was left growing was a stem so I let it grow and see what happens. Now it looks like a very odd tree. Not sure if I should prune it or not . Any advice would be appreciated!
I would let it grow out. Use flat cuts to get it into a shrub like shape first, and then let it really grow out. Then selectively prune. Most of these are multiple trunks. It grows naturally as a shrub with multiple stems. The pruning in the video is a specialized technique to train it into a tree form. That might take a while with your tree, but what you would do is select three to five good trunks and then prune back from there.
thank you for the niwaki on the V, plicatum. I personally think this var should be allowed to grow its full 15ft height, but kept healthy with interior straight shoots being lopped out, to achieve the glorious draping cascading effects. Move the path instead lol.
Thank you for your comment. I appreciate it. On some other properties, I just do some skirting (removing the lower branches that touch the ground) and let the V. plicatum grow to
its full height as a proper shrub.