Viburnum x bodnantense

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Lesleyk

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Viburnum x bodnantense
« on: June 08, 2012, 09:33 »
One of my customers has a rather overgrown Viburnum x bodnantense and she has asked me to prune it.  I think it may be a little too late this year, although I am happy to give it a bash if not.  I think I need to, at least, cut some of the older stems to ground level, but wonder if a hard prune of the whole shrub would be a good idea?  I have read that this should be done over a couple of years so the flowers are not lost for a season, but advice is conflicting.  Can anyone help?  Cheers, Lesley.

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Re: Viburnum x bodnantense
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2012, 10:16 »
Really they shouuld be pruned as soon as flowering is finished, otherwise there are few (or no) flowers the next year.

I chopped mine down hard last summer and it has grown back into a well shaped bush again -- no flowers this spring of course. Couldn't wait to do it in two sections as it was so massive and I was fed up with it hanging right over the pond.

The choice is yours (or your customer's) -- hard cut now, no flowers next year, or two years of rejuvenation with half flowering next spring

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