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Sierra Azul Nursery & Garden
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 10 มี.ค. 2021
Sierra Azul Nursery & Garden - source for beneficial, edible, drought tolerant, and exotic plants with a 2-acre demonstration and sculpture garden. We are family-owned and operated and located in Watsonville, CA nestled between the Santa Cruz Mountains and lovely Monterey Bay.
Pruning a Fruitless Olive in the Landscape
Jeff and Alexa prune a fruitless olive in the landscape to maintain its low-branched tree form. This specimen had been previously pruned from bush form into a low-branched tree. After several years of growth, it was ready for another maintenance prune to thin out the bushy growth.
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Pruning a 15 Gallon Fruitless Olive
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Jeff and Alexa prune a 15-gallon unpruned bushy fruitless olive into a low-branched tree.
Pruning a Japanese Maple
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Jeff and Alexa prune an Acer palmatum 'Sango Kaku' (Coral bark Japanese maple). Three types of cuts are made starting with removing dead wood, followed by thinning crossing or tight branches, and finally reducing height with heading cuts. Happy pruning!
How to Prune Lomandra: Part 2 (Light Prune)
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In Part 2 of How to Prune Lomandra, Jeff and Alexa focus on how to lightly prune a Lomandra. Since the blades are already squared off at the tips, you can give them a light haircut to clean up dry ends and they still look great!
How to Prune Lomandra: Part 1 (Hard Prune)
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Lomandra has become a very popular landscape plant due to it’s grass-like appearance and low maintenance requirements. While they do not require annual pruning like grasses, they do benefit from a hard pruning after a number of years in the ground. In this video, Jeff and Alexa demonstrate how to prune a Lomandra that has started to look a bit rough from a ~4 year old landscape.
How to Prune Chondropetalum (Cape Rush)
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Chondropetalum (Cape Rush) is a great accent plant that provides year-round structure in the garden. Unfortunately, they are often mistakenly treated like a grass and chopped down, requiring a very slow regrowth process to return to normal. In this video, Jeff and Alexa demonstrate how to properly prune Chondropetalum so they continue to look great!
How to Prune Leucadendrons
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The best time to prune Leucadendrons is once they’re done blooming, typically April through June in Coastal California. In this demonstration Alexa and Jeff cut a specimen that already formed new growth. If cut earlier, the difference between “before” and “after” will be a bit less drastic. Happy pruning!
Ceanothus Flowers: Quick Gardening Soap
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Spring is for gardening and Ceanothus blooms, try washing your hands after a day in the soil with a handful of flowers!
How to Prune Salvias: Spring Edition
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Jeff and Alexa of Sierra Azul Nursery & Garden demonstrate and talk you through how to prune Salvias for Spring growth and Summer blooms.
Do you cut the flower spikes off after blooms are gone?
No, we don't recommend cutting the flower spikes off after the blooms are gone. We only make cuts at the base of the plant since the plant won't sprout new growth from the cuts, it grows new shoots from the roots.
Very helpful and interesting video- thanks!
Thanks for watching and we're glad you found it helpful!
I am curious how this Lomandra has regrown? Every time I have seen one pruned hard, the regrowth seems much thinner and uneven compared to the original growth.
Thank you! We several in a tall planter, theyve all drooped low and now one is yellow - do they not do well in planters?
They do fine in containers as long as they don't dry out too much between waterings; they need feeding throughout the year as well to keep them green. Depending on the size of the container, they do get root bound and end up needing frequent irrigation or a bigger container. They can get droopy if they don't get enough sun. If the roots dry out too much the shoots can collapse and turn brown. If one is yellow, it may be a little stressed. You could try feeding it with something like liquid fish fertilizer or just an all-purpose fertilizer.
Can you prune these plants to be narrower and tall? Thanks
You can do removal cuts lower on the plant/at the base to make them narrower. There are some varieties that do grow more upright.
You didn't show how she trimmed the top part! Only the after, that doesn't help
Sorry, we didn't realize we left that part out! Thanks for catching it. We just lightly pruned the tips back to an outward facing node to slightly decrease the height.
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You are pruning them like the commercial maintenance guys do in the cities. Lomandras should be cut a few inches from ground level to keep its natural grass like form and to remain healthy. There is really no reason to prune them like you did. I understand you likely do not want a blank spot in the garden once you have pruned the Lomandra, but they grow so fast that you will literally see growth within the next few days. Plus, the garden you're working in has such a beautiful natural design to it, even more of a reason not to prune like you did. I prune Lomandras and all grasses with bypass hand pruners. Pruning them with power shears will typically "shred" the ends of the blades of the plant. I cringe when I see people using power shears on grass like plants. Leave that to the commercial maintenance guys, this yard deserves better. Yes using hand pruners takes longer, but in the end, I think you get better results. Less clean up, too. You did a great job on the design of this garden.
Thank you for watching and for the thoughtful comment. With Lomandra in particular, we don't feel there's much difference between hand pruning and mechanical pruning aesthetic wise because they already have square-tipped ends with a naturally jagged look. We wanted to show the option since many people do have mass plantings and it wouldn't always be practical time-wise to hand prune. In our observations of many Lomandra plantings, pruning at different heights doesn't affect the appearance after a couple months of growth. The extra hard pruning you described is definitely one effective method for rejuvenating Lomandras.
Thank you for your video. What specific type of Ceanothus is this bush? I'm having a hard time trying to locate this Ceanothus.
We're not actually sure which variety this is, but it should work with any type of California native Ceanothus (California lilac)! Most aren't blooming quite yet - Spring is the best time for this.
@sierraazulnurserygarden Great,thank you very much. I have my eye on a California Lilac Ceanothus. Hopefully, that will work out. Thank you for your insight.
Can you propagate any of the old canes or pruned materials to get new plants? Thanks.
Propagating from cuttings is possible with Leucadendrons, although it is tricky. It has to be new growth that is not too floppy (not a stalk with an old flower cone which is usually the case when pruning). Rooting hormone and a rooting medium such as a perlite mix is usually necessary.