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Home » Miscellaneous » How To Prune Overgrown Shrubs

How To Prune Overgrown Shrubs

Updated : December 19, 2014

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Overgrown Shrubs!
How Far Can They Be Cut Back?

Watch and see.

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Okay, about those over grown shrubs.

In this video I will show you, and prove to you that
you can take an overgrown shrub and cut it way back
and end up with a really nice plant once again.
Watch this short movie:
https://mikesbackyardnursery.com/?p=426

Part one of this video is here:
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Comments

  1. Gloria says

    June 19, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    Hi Mike,

    After watching your video on “How to Prune Overgrown Shrubs,” I got brave and cut my old overgrown Burning Bushes almost down to the ground in the late fall last year. This year they are growing back thick and healthy. That is until I noticed some new shoots curling up at the tips with black dots on them, like ants, killing the new shoots. I had this happen on Snowball bushes and Cranberry shrubs. We had a lot of rain over the last couple of weeks, and I don’t know if that has anything to do with it. I’m in zone 6.

    Anyways, I cut off the curling diseased tips. Would you know what is causing these bugs or disease to destroy these new shoots, and how I can stop them?

    Thank you for your help.

    Reply
    • Mike says

      June 20, 2015 at 7:40 am

      Gloria,

      Sounds like aphids. Aphids like soft new growth. As soon as that growth hardens off the aphids will flee the scene. Normally I don’t do a thing for them but you can spray with insecticidal soap or something simple like that.

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