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Botanical Name:Iris spp. Sun Exposure: Full sun to part shade Soil Type: Medium to moist, well-draining, rich Soil pH: Slightly acidic to Neutral (6.5-7.5) USDA Hardiness Zones: 3 to 10. In ...
When pruning limbs off large shade trees, use the three-step approach. The first cut should be from below and 15 or 18 inches out from the trunk. Cut up 1/4-way into the bottom of the branch (not ...
Raspberries are vigorous and can be locally invasive. They propagate using basal shoots (also known as suckers), extended underground shoots that develop roots and individual plants. They can sucker new canes some distance from the main plant. For this reason, raspberries spread well, and can take over gardens if left unchecked.
Rubus leucodermis is a deciduous shrub growing to 0.5–2.5 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –8 feet), with prickly shoots. [5] While the crown is perennial, the canes are biennial, growing vegetatively one year, flowering and fruiting the second, and then dying.
Depending on the species, many temperate plants can be pruned either during dormancy in winter, or, for species where winter frost can harm a recently pruned plant, after flowering is completed. In the temperate areas of the northern hemisphere autumn pruning should be avoided, as the spores of disease and decay fungi are abundant at this time ...
At the same time, the following year prune out one-half of the remaining old stems and some of the new growth. Finally, in the late winter of the third year remove all of the remaining old wood.
Rubus occidentalis is a deciduous shrub growing to 2 to 3 metres (6.6 to 9.8 ft) tall. [6] The leaves are pinnate, with five leaflets on leaves, strong-growing stems in their first year, and three leaflets on leaves on flowering branchlets.