Neil Sperry says you always want to leave green leaves, because they manufacture sugars that are stored in the plants for the next year's flowers.
Q: How soon after my daffodils have finished blooming can I cut their tops back? I don't like the browned leaves.As soon as they're brown, you can trim them back to the ground. But you always want to leave green leaves on any perennial. It's those leaves that manufacture sugars that are then stored in the plants for the next year's flowers.
Gardenias are very tender to extreme freezes, and when they’re exposed in pots they lose 15 to 20 degrees of hardiness beyond what they normally could tolerate.Q: I had two gardenia trees in large pots. I think the winter did a number on them because the leaves all turned brown. When I trimmed them I saw green tissues in the stems, but they have not put any new leaves out yet.
Q: I have a live oak growing about 20 feet away from a fruitless mulberry. The mulberry is big enough and old enough that it has really encroached on the live oak's space. The live oak, in fact, looks like it was sliced in half. I know the oak is the more permanent tree. If I remove the mulberry, will the oak fill in on that side?Yes, over time the oak will send new branches that direction once the competition for sunlight has been removed. However, it won't happen quickly.
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