Boxwood pruning in summer, how to cut back a big boxwood summer vs winter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2021
- follow up video, the shrubs a year later!: • pruned boxwood a year ...
how to prune a big boxwood shrub, pruning it back a lot.
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Thanks so much for showing a pruning job that usually scares people. I have cut back much smaller shrubs, to keep them in line with the foundation as they were originally planted, instead of allowing them to cover the foundation completely. They look very bare after pruning, but every one of them came back beautifully. Early spring or late winter works best and by the beginning of summer you can see big growth, and by the end of summer you are usually sorry you didn’t cut more. The problem for me is the debris that is left over after pruning. There is a lot of it, and bagging it and taking it to the landfill is no easy task.
we made a follow up video on what it looks like a year later
Thank you for giving me the confidence to drastically prune my overgrown boxwoods!
Just asking I too am going to cut back 7 very large boxwoods in my garden this month.
Are you going to fertilize and if so, what type of fertilizer?
Great demonstration and instructions. Thank you!
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Thank you so much for this! I was worried I would harm my overgrown boxwoods. I’m looking forward to a relaxing workout in my front garden this March! 🌱🌿
Thanks for the guidance! We have 2 overgrown boxwoods in our front garden that are getting trimmed pronto! 😸
Absolutely loved the video. Thanks for the confirmation on what I felt to be true about these plants!
I did this to a 25 year old boxwood hedge (20 bushes) that was overgrown and woody inside. It took me three weeks during our mild Southern California winter. Now in mid March, there is a lot of new growth coming in fast! I wanted them to recover before our desert summer heat arrives.
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Very Good ! Thank you for the lesson! 😁
Good job, excellent information 👏
I love this video and have watched it multiple times. Hoping NY heavily pruned boxwoods come back now! 🤞
I did not know Rudy Guliani pruned shrubs too!
What an insult
Lol, so accurate
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Of course he does! I recall Rudy’s Press Conference at Four Seasons Landscaping.
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Thank you, particularly for the tip about doing a notch cut on the wrong side first, and for showing how the hard pruned bush has recovered. That was very reassuring before I start on my two overgrown box bushes. One extra tip if anyone wants a Box hedge? I normally take nearly all the cut off bits, strip the bottom, leaving just a few leaves at the top of a piece about 4 or 5 inches long, dip in hormone rooting powder, then put them a couple of inches apart in old sinks etc. They nearly all grow really well, into new box bushes ready to be a hedge later on.
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Oh wow. I had NO idea I could cut boxwoods back that far! I actually dug several up and planted new ones. Now, I know.
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OMG! Thank you thank you thank you for showing us your technique! I have boxwood that have grown up midway of my windows in the front of my house and although they are beautiful, it poses a security risk not being able to see outside. I started pruning them back with electric shears to a better height, and shaping them in the front, but they looked horrible afterwards. I though I was gonna be stuck with having to uproot them. Thanks for sharing that I can shear harder on them to get them under the windows!
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I JUST read a gardening article saying you should never hard prune a boxwood and that they didn’t do well with it….this is why gardening is so miserable and gives me a headache. Everyone comes from a different “school” 😂Seeing yours come back has given me confidence to cut mine back. They don’t look so hot, so it’s a last ditch effort!
Very helpful! Thanks!
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Very good information. Great video. Thank you.
Pretty impressive..this is what I need to do spring 2024, also to my spruce, I have seen a beautiful spruce tree come straight up from a ground root I cut back years ago. Thank you.
I think we went to the same school because i have learned the same thing. Bravo to you for showing what to do and the results of it.
I like this fellow, he's no slouch, or pansy, NO GLOVES! If he was in England, I would drink beer with him, any time. Thank you Captain, and peace be unto you.
Well done about ready to go to town on my front landscape in nashville
Great video!
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Wow. That looks great. Can’t imagine why I wouldn’t want to do this?
This extreme cutting is exactly how bonsai works. Good stuff
I have been wondering if l could cut them back like you did. Lots of winter kill. That's great to know. Thank you so much.
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Good vlog ❤️
I’m taking my chances and doing this 😅. Thanks. I’m always fearful trimming below the green part!
Thank you, great video
we made a follow up video on what it looks like a year later
I have a huge old boxwood in my front lawn that's about 10 feet tall and during the winter, the snow broke open the boxwood and it now gets sun inside of it. Sadly, the only thing growing from having gotten sunlight is WEEDS! Lots and lots of weeds! I actually didn't mind that it had grown so tall seeing that it's surrounded by lawn and at the corner of my home's lot. After it broke, I figured I should have maybe somehow tied the limbs in the center together prior to the snow but because it had gone through many, MANY YEARS of harsh winters and never slit open, I didn't think it would need it! I was hoping that it would sprout and fill in but like I mentioned, all that filled in were nasty prickly weeds that grow taller than the actual boxwood if I don't go in and try and cut them down several times during the summer. THEN, I asked my lawn guy if he would trim all of my boxwoods one summer and when I came out after he'd been at it for a while, I saw that he cut the elder boxwood back hard, exposing the large limbs. I hadn't asked that he cut that particular boxwood back, just the ones in front of my home but it was too late! I actually didn't think before seeing THIS video that you could even cut back an old boxwood hard like that because I'd seen where boxwoods didn't recover and all that was left were naked limbs that never rebounded d! Well, it's been about a year now and unfortunately my old boxwood now looks terrible, with green atop and tall, and naked large limbs below with all types of weeds growing in between! So now, I'm trying to figure out a way to somehow cut back and shape it where the top limbs can be architecturally styled and then add other shorter shrubs around the base of it to make the cut back look deliberate. I've gotta do something and it's too expensive for me to replant that whole area right now so...If anyone happens to read this and has some ideas, or sites where I can see examples of this having been done, I'd greatly appreciate you sharing with me where to go get some inspiration.
Wow, glad I saw this one. Thanks
we made a follow up video on what it looks like a year later
Thank you. Now to go prune mine!
Excellent job. Doing this for yourself is one thing. A paying customer not so much. Remove and replace for instant gratification.
Depends on the customer. I have several clients that are gardeners and get it.
OMG! I would never ever think to cut it back that much. what kind of boxwood is this? its huge.
Good job sir
Wow!!! Loved your video!! You made me smile from ear to ear! I just had mine cut way back. I’ll let you know if they return!
we made a follow up video on what it looks like a year later
This is great info! The thing is, I live in a townhouse community where the grounds people basically prune to round out shapes, year after year with no eye toward actual care and esthetics, or preservation of the landscaping that is nearing 40 years old.
I did brave clipping back one boxwood next to my door pretty severely a couple years ago and it recovered really well all things considered. However a couple of other nearby boxwoods have some sort of blight or die back that is never addressed and is probably being spread throughout the entire community with each pruning session. Any advice regarding possible treatment to save those shrubs, other than my clipping out dead sections until the plants finally give up the ghost?
You are awesome
Can I still heavily cut back our boxwoods in September or should we wait until next year? Thanks!
It’s September in coastal South Carolina. Do you think we could do a hard prune now and still be ok? Or should we wait?
thank you for sharing this
we made a follow up video on what it looks like a year later
It’s nearly August and 90 degrees. When should boxwoods NOT be drastically cut back?
Thanks for your video.
What variety of Boxwood is it? Thank you.
I did this and my hedges look like they are dead for 2nd year. I was afraid I used to much fertile and killed them. They are now starting to show some signs of coming back. Not sure if I they can be fertilized now or which fertilizer is best to use. Should they be mulched heavy? There is no mulch presently under them.
I have an evergreen tree by my house I'm wanting to trim. No idea what kind it is though. Its too tall and too wide from side to side.
Dried Boxwood is indeed very hard. If you know any woodworkers, they might want the bigger pieces. It makes excellent chisel and screwdriver handles, its used to make small wooden planes and on certain types of larger wooden planes its inlaid in wear areas and then called a boxed plane.
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what variety this boxwood is? I always thought boxwood is slow growing. thanks
2 varieties: English box and american box. American grows faster, English holds shape longer.
That is exactly right.
How long does it take for boxwoods pruned around March 20th to start showing signs of coming back?
This may work in places where things grow well and green, but if you live in the Sonoran Desert (Tucson/Phoenix), do NOT prune Boxwood in late Spring or Summer when our temps are 105-115F degrees. They will die. Here in desert our Boxwoods don't grow that tall, we use them as hedges and the tallest one I've seen is maybe around 3-4 feet tall max.
Hell No.... goodluck on gettin your shape back after this Hack... shouldve just cut em down... i cant watch anymore.. haha looks like the ones i did today only they were beautiful when i got done with em today didnt have to wait 3 years
Thanks….. so if pruned now March …I’ll see new pretty green growth in 2 months … heading back today to give it another wack..
So what happened??
@@chloe5susan hi … that was a yr ago n we took it out completely..it was to large for the yard/spot , just looked out of place n the trimming was not enough .. put in 2 small fothergilla..love it. In hindsight I should have put in an evergreen..but will add sweet box in front of fothergilla eventually ..😀
What type of boxwood are those?
Also a hint if this home is for sale, I’m guessing there’s a underground oil tank under the boxwoods
Can you prune hollies this much? I have steed Hollie’s that are 7 feet tall!
It is much easier and faster if you use some twine to tightly tie the bush together a few inches above where you want to cut, then use good electric or gas hedge pruners. Shear off the top, then use hedger to shear up the sides to the size and shape you want.
The size of those branches? Not too certain about that one…
Hi I have a few boxwoods that I need to shape. Can Shape Them any time of year and maybe if it’s in the late summer is there anything I can do like watering or feeding them to help them after shaping them? They aren’t 6 feet tall lol but they had been just shaped on the outside and not thinned so the insides have no leaves and there are bald areas
Thanks!! Too the video is so helpful!
when you remove taht much foliage, is tghere enough left to gather the sunlight?
Доброго вам дня.В каком месяцк вы зделали иакую обрезку?!
Question. A new home here in East Texas. Its high Summer and 100°. I need to do this so badly. Is it bad to just go way down the trunk and get all that out at once? Its about 8 plants all intertwined and covering windows and up to the brickwork on the side.
check my new vidoe on what they look like a year later, yes you can skip the top pruning and start lower on the plant, but dont go too close down to the ground!
Thank you I was worried I cut it back too much
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I have massive box plants that I need to cut back. guess I found this at just the right time of year. I dont think I have big enough cutters tho. I do have a hand saw tho.
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When is a good month to cut them down in Minnesota ? Midwest, it is already begening of July, I hope I had seen this earlier in the year.
july is fine !
That was crazy...lol...I had no idea that you can cut boxwoods to that degree and have any chance of recovery...Im inspired...😃
we made a follow up video on what it looks like a year later
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The real workout begins when you got to drag off all those cuttings. You forgot to mention , that those folding pruning saws cut on the pull stroke.
A Silky Gomboy cuts both ways
@@wilsonfineart so I guess it identified as as a bi-directional. 🥴
I am about to do this. What do yours look like now a year later?
we made a follow up video on what it looks like a year later
Okay, it's been two years. I want to see what these boxwoods look like after all of that hard pruning!
i made a new video on what they look like now (a year later)
@@gardeningtipsandmorecan I do this on a little gem boxwood or the dwarf variation that gets around 2x2. I Pruned last fall when I was doing my landscaping and got winter bite and didn’t do well this summer. Lots of bare spots
What variety are these boxwoods? I thought the only grow up to 5 ft.
In the UK box bushes in stately home gardens, can grow to at least 15 feet or so :)
@@jesshothersall how is that done? I’d love for mine to grow that tall for some privacy.
@@babyhuez597 if you have shorter ones let one of the center stems grow up more it will become more of the “trunk” that branches will grow off of. Then over years you can shape it to what you want
What brand of handsaw are you using?
I have one very similar and it’s a stihl & I love it!
Never let this guy and his shears into your town. He hates Boxwoods. 😅😂
Perfect example at the end
thanks we made a follow up video on what it looks like a year later
Can we get an update video
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10:53 I live in Central Virginia and have several huge boxwood. I would like to severely prune these can I do this this month October or November?
better to wait till the spring, they wont regrow foliage before the winter and it wont look good througout the winter
@@gardeningtipsandmore thanks so much
Now I have time to tackle the 60 year old bush in my yard. So need to find a video where it's a bit slower.
Could have made some nice topiaries?
Could I do this in late summer?
yes !
Are you from Maryland? 😂
how about a video on what they look like now
we made a follow up video on what it looks like a year later
Would you do the same for all arborvitae
Ball not all
What is your zone please. I have some I want to prune. My husband is going to have a heart attack when I do haha. But they are to big. I’m zone 6b, southern Indiana.
Then don't do it.
I have an out of control willow. It was a cute bush 6 years ago and it's become a 12 ft. monster!! I found out I could literally take it to an inch above ground level to give it new life and to give its neighbors more room to breathe. My hubby FLIPPED OUT when he saw it. I told him to relax and one month later it had tons of new buds and now it looks like the day I bought it!! So every 3 or 4 years, she'll be getting a severe prune to the ground with no fear from us! What would we do without these TH-cam videos?!
It’s Aug 2022. Any chance you can do an update video?
we made a new video showing the shrubs a year later !
I find the farm up the road a bit but close.
Blooming heck! Id hate to see what he would have done to these plants in March.
See new video on what they look like now
Do you have any Holly pruning videos?
Look like american box..
What about the 1/3 rd rule?
If you want to reduce the height of the plants, why do you waste time and effort pruning them high only to later cut them lower?
Remove it and plant the right variety in the right place with the right spacing
Waaahhh.
we made a follow up video on what it looks like a year later
4:38 I can't imagine trimming 1000 boxwoods to be able to quote a statistic of 99.9% recovering.
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You just have to be ok with your yard looking like hell for awhile, I guess... :( Why not start trimming it back all the way around, so much at a time, so it does not have to look so awful??? Yes, it may take longer, but at least you wont have such a drastic looking yard to look at for a few years, right? Yes, it came back fine, I agree... But I just hate to take a plant that far down, and start it over... Yes, the best thing would to have been keeping up on trimming it back yearly, so you have more control over the size and height, but some people just don't do it or have a good enough gardener who knows how to do it...
Sometimes people don't have years to correct an overgrown hedge. We purchased a house that we knew we might have to sell in 5 years. There was a gigantic 8'x25' azalea hedge across the front of the property. It was also on a steep slope and had started to grow down and out.
I cut the entire hedge down to about 30". We found bags full of trash and natty light cans underneath. The hedge was reduced to just branches but within a month it completely leafed out and looked furry. The next summer it had nice new normal growth but no buds. The summer after that it bloomed which was great since we had just received notice to move and the hedge had recovered to a beautiful state. No regrets.
yes..... but it's a great technique! I don't think i can do it. if I did it for a client I'm sure they would sue me........ cool though to learn about this here.
Just made a video on what they look like now
@@revivalservicebydesign330sounds like you need to work on communicating with your clients.
The plant is like cut your fingers off does that hurt
That would never live in Alabama after a pruning like that. Even with heavy watering. Never.
Does that work with any boxwood variety?
Its been 2 years...where's the update?
new video with a update from a year later is released.
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