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By: Laura Wittstruck
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To ensure full blooms, you need to prune shrubs like forsythia or false jasmine regularly.
How often and at what time of year varies depending on the crop.
In spring, its strong yellow flowers immediately put you in a good mood - but to ensure that the forsythia continues to grow vigorously, gardeners should regularly use scissors.
The same applies to all other shrubs in the garden.
However, when is the right time to prune is hotly debated.
Summer or winter pruning for shrubs?
Basically it can be said: In the duel between summer and winter cutting, there is no clear winner.
Using both methods, gardeners can achieve different goals and shape the shrub or rejuvenate it.
For example, if you use scissors in the autumn months, you will ensure that the plant grows vigorously again in the spring.
In order for the forsythia to shine yellow in spring, like other shrubs, it needs a thinning cut every few years.
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The type of shrub also plays a role.
The rule of thumb for cutting is:
Early bloomers (e.g. forsythia, blackthorn or cornelian cherry): after flowering in late spring
Summer-flowering shrubs (e.g. bush mallow, broom or false jasmine): early spring
Berry bushes (e.g. blackberries, currants, raspberries) and evergreen shrubs (except boxwood and cherry laurel): autumn
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Important for the flowering of forsythia and co.: the thinning cut
As a shrub grows older, in some cases the former blooms also diminish.
The reason: The shoots branch out more and more and take light and nutrients from each other.
The flowers wither and the bush ages.
To prevent this, a so-called thinning cut is recommended every two to three years.
Gardeners remove the oldest, some dead, branches and twigs immediately after flowering.
The secateurs (promotional link) should be placed at a short distance from the ground.
Gardeners remove around one to two thirds of long, unbranched shoots.
Even bushes that are lazy to bloom experience a second spring, so to speak, thanks to maintenance pruning.