🌿📣🌿PRO TIP: Forsythia, flowering Quince, Yoshino cherry trees, Kwanzan cherry trees (shown above), deciduous Magnolias- if you plan to prune any of these trees or shrubs, it's time! 🌸 🌸You want to prune spring-blooming deciduous trees & shrubs after they've finished blooming because these plants begin to form new buds for next year inside their stems during the hot summer months. If you wait to prune these plants in fall, you will be unintentionally cutting off a lot of their buds for next

Forsythias are just finishing blooming where I live and as with any flowering shrub or tree, it’s a good time to prune them as soon as possible after they bloom. You can be brutal with these and they recover nicely. They can get totally out of control if you don’t and as you can see, it’s sort of hard to tell that the second example was pruned at all. Time to get in there again and prune it again. Note: they thrive in full sun and get very leggy in too much shade. Have fun out there!If you’re ne