How to prune flowering shrubs?

Pruning of flowering shrubs: most flowering shrubs, such as clove, cherry blossom, peach blossom, magnolia, elm leaf plum, golden bell flower, plum blossom, bauhinia, peony, yellow thorn rose, wisteria, forsythia and so on. They all differentiated flower buds in summer and autumn last year.

This kind of flowers and trees must be pruned immediately after the flowers wither. If you wait until winter to prune, you will cut off many buds and affect the number of flowers. For summer and autumn flowering shrubs, such as Lagerstroemia indica, Lingxiao, Hibiscus, Lycium barbarum, etc. They all form flower buds on the new branches that germinated that year. This kind of flowering shrubs can be pruned in winter during the dormant period after defoliation. For flowers and trees that bloom continuously in a year, such as Chinese rose and jasmine. After each flower withers, it should be pruned properly immediately to promote the axillary buds to germinate and generate new branches before it can bloom again; Used for flowering shrubs, such as holly and precious wood. After flowering, it is necessary to properly cut off some branches that are too dense and pests and diseases, so that they are ventilated and transparent to facilitate the results; Observe the shrubs with branches, such as red rosewood, Tang Di, etc. Because they mainly appreciate their bright shoots, they can be pruned every winter, leaving only about 20 cm off the ground and cutting off the rest, so that more new branches can grow in the next year.

Generally speaking, flowers and trees with fast growth and strong branch regeneration ability should be cut again, while flowers and trees with slow growth and weak branch regeneration ability should be cut lightly.