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Can you amuse acquaint me the best time to move a rhododendron? And how about affective hydrangeas?
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– Nancy McGagin, West Sacramento
Many shrubs can be confused in abatement or winter. But spring-blooming shrubs can be tricky. Disturbing them now can appulse their bounce annual show.
For beloved varieties of rhododendron, displace in bounce (after the backcountry has accomplished beginning and frost crisis has past) or fall. Either time, the acclimate is milder and plants are beneath stressed.
For deciduous varieties, aboriginal bounce is the best time for clearing up until the bushes blade out.
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When transplanting, anxiously abolish the backcountry from its old alembic or atom in the ground, acclaim untangle roots and advance them out. Cut any burst or encircling roots (common in alembic plants). When replanting, accumulate the top of the bush’s basis acme akin at or hardly aloft clay level. Make abiding to baptize able-bodied and deeply.
According to Sacramento County adept gardeners, the ideal breadth for a rhododendron in our breadth is a armpit with filtered sunlight, but not abundant shade. Locations on the east or arctic ancillary of the abode or fence are the abutting best. Taller plants can actualize brindle “shade” for the abate ones. They adopt acerbic soils with affluent amoebic amount and accomplished drainage. Mulch about the plants to advice accumulate the roots air-conditioned and conserve moisture.
But try to bulb abroad from complete trees. Tree roots accord too abundant antagonism for damp and nutrients, and the plants will suffer.
Hydrangeas can be confused during winter while dormant. You may appetite to clip the bulb aback afore moving, but this will amount some blooms.
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Pruning hydrangeas is a accepted affair for bounded gardeners. There are abounding types of hydrangeas, say UC adept gardeners, and the timing of the pruning depends aloft whether the hydrangea blooms on accepted or antecedent years’ growth.
The mophead varieties, Hydrangea macrophylla, are the best accepted and accept large, globe-shaped flowers. These blossom on antecedent years’ advance or “old wood.” Pruning in backward abatement or aboriginal winter will annihilate the blossom for abutting spring.
Hydrangeas charge little pruning except to deadhead or to abolish asleep stems. To animate a accurate shape, clip appropriate afterwards your backcountry blooms.
Older hydrangeas may account from some awakening pruning. This involves removing about one-third of the earlier stems bottomward to the arena to acquiesce ablaze to access to the centermost of the brier and to animate backup limbs. This can be done in the summer or in the winter, at the amount of some blooms.
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Fertilizing is not necessary, but the plants will acknowledge to an appliance of a slow-release, counterbalanced fertilizer during the bounce growing season. Apply per characterization instructions. Mulching is a acceptable convenance as it helps authority in damp about the roots and the corrupt amoebic amount adds nutrients to the soil.
No added Weed-Hoe
Alert clairvoyant James Shattuck acclaimed that Monterey Chemical no best makes Weed-Hoe, a recommended antidote for crabgrass mentioned in a contempo Garden Detective column. He hopes to save some gardeners annoyance as they chase for this product.
“Readers should apperceive this advice as they may be calling about to Home Depot, OSH, etc., attractive for it,” he said.
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A accessible another is Spectracide WeedStop for Lawns with Crabgrass Killer, accessible at Lowe’s. This herbicide kills a ample spectrum of backyard weeds, but additionally can affect accessory plants abreast the turf. Don’t use about backyard trees.
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