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Transcript: Perennial Pruning
The nice thing about perennial plants is that they come back year after year. However, by the end of winter, the cold weather has them ragged looking.You can clean up your landscape, prune up those perennials, and make them look great. When you cut them back, they'l respond with fresh new growth and fill in quite well.
For things like lantana, copper canyon daisy, and many of the salvias, cut them back to just a few inches above the ground. They'l put on some new growth in no time.
Salvia greggii is really a small shrub, so you can cut it back to about a foot high - maybe 8 inches high - and it will respond with new growth.
Ornamental grasses can be cut back to about a foot high. All that dead material can be removed and fresh new grass will fill in. If you don't prune your ornamental clumping-type grasses back every year, that dead material starts to build up and can really become unsightly in the landscape.
If youíve got cast iron plant, they get to looking pretty ragged at the end of the winter. Go ahead and cut them back to the ground. With the arrival of warmer weather, they'l be right back looking great again.
And then there's ground cover and border plants like lariape and monkey grass, Asian jasmine and ivy. If they're looking bad, get a lawn mower or weed eater out and take them back to the ground. They'l respond with fresh new growth and be looking great.
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January 14, 2005