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Linton Hall Teaching Garden
by The Webmaster
Oak Leaf Hydrangeas
June 18, 2011 This afternoon, barring another torrential downpour such as the one we had yesterday, we are going to take the pruning shears to most of the shrubbery. It's that time of the year when the azaleas, weigelas, the forsythia are no longer blooming and you want to prune them back to encourage new growth.  We're not trying to create cubes, drum likes shapes or hedge rows.Naturalizing is the way I prefer so this trim is just a matter of controlling the size and taking care of those errant branches. We do not prune every single shrub at exactly the right time but we have been quite successful with the crepe myrtles and the white viburnum ....The hollies are a little more tricky. Where we miss the mark, you can be sure that the deer will eventually take care of the remaining trim job - even on plants which are supposed to be deer proof. You would think that they might reconsider munching on a pyrancantha but no such luck. In Prince William County, we are lucky to have the the Teaching Garden at the Benedictine Monastery (9535 Linton Hall Road, Bristow, VA 20136 ), where we can learn how it is done. In fact, the Master Gardeners will be at Chinn Park Library on June 20th at 6:30pm teaching us how to "Clip It Right"!
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