Today I am showing you two very different ways to trim your annuals so that they perform their best to the end of the growing season. Annuals respond really well to being pruned, and I am walking you through step by step two different ways to trim them.
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HA! When you were shooting the tight shot of the saliva, that was a hummingbird moth. 🙂
The red sweet potato vine looks like “Cousin It” from the Adam’s Family. All he needs is some goggly eyes. Wonderful demonstration. Thank you
Perfect timing, Jenny! I have been looking at my containers and wondering if I cut them back, would they continue to bloom here in my 7a central Va. ESPECIALLY THE CRAZY SWEET POTATO VINE. We have a couple of days reprieve of cool temps and (relatively low) dewpoint so I'm eager to power through the next few days. Enjoy these last few weeks with your daughter– so many emotions during this next phase of her journey.
This is why I love your channel. You teach us how to plant but also the maintenance!!
I have 2 coleos that are 4 ft tall and wide, and are blocking viewing the other plants. They're getting a hair cut. BTW: can you save the seeds from coleos to plant next year? How do you do that?
What are the blue flowers right behind the yellow & pink flowers? I believe you may have mentioned them a couple videos ago when you were trimming the boxwoods?
Jenny you gave me permission to go for it on my trimming! I am itching to get out there!
Also I love you shirt! “I got lost going in the right direction.” ❤
Brenna seemed worried that mama lost her mind,lol.i aggressively trim my annuals the same way-they bounce back within a week or two😊
Love pruning. I just did my super bells and there already looking much better. They can breath now. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I use the ponytail method but I don’t use my trimmers on annuals only my shrubs. We all have our methods!!!
Type A eldest child here. And I admit it was a little stressful to watch you with that trimmer. 😱 I’m with Brenna. 😆
Very informative, ❤
Or just toss em and think fall 😂
Thanks for the trimming lesson. 👍
My first year of gardening, I planted full sun salvia in part shade, then I cut all the blooms off for a second flush, and they immediately died. I was scared to prune annuals for the next two years, lol.😮 Supertunia vistas are the only thing I need to prune, everything else just gets about 1/3 the size your plants do. I still get satisfaction from seeing you prune:)
justified!!!! now I have an answer to those who call me heartless.
Oh my😀😀😀 don't mind me but I was totally distracted in the beginning of the video by the hummingbird behind you and by Brina enjoying herself 😀😀😀😊
I love it! Hack those babies off for me! 💕
My mantra when pruning is 'you have to be cruel to be kind' and focus on the long term. I'm a fellow North Carolinian so I really enjoy your videos and sweat right along with you!
Love my cordless hedge trimmers! Way to go at the deck boxes. Did you trim the outside, too?
Minnesota summers are so short I rarely have to trim.
Where is your daughter going to college? Is she staying in NC? My bf’s kid is going to NCSU and will be on campus although he lives in the Raleigh area.
Because of you, Jenny, and Laura @gardenanswer, I have learned so much over the last 2-3 years. I’m not afraid to try anything with plants. If I don’t like it, I change it. Thank you for being an inspiration 👍🏼😊!
😢😢😢 my garden was so Sad this year.. very hot 🔥 🥵…But my Ivory Halo Dogwood looks empty not full lush everything I planted dyed. Cutworm soil may need help..
❤Go Jenny Go! ❤
Thank you Miss Jenny! Would you do the same thing for annuals planted in ground?
Thanks, Jenny.
I love watching your videos 🥰
I find trimming annuals a fun garden chore my go to is grab, make a pony tail and cut. 😊
I like the ponytail method! Works for me and my time!
I trimmed off 2 inches of my lobelias and they just did not bounce back. Almost all are dead.
Do you prune your cleome back?
Brynna thought you were a little nutso, lol! I did a bunch of trimming this morning, my crazy loropetalums got a major prune. I forgot my bubblegums though. Thanks for the reminder.
Hi Jenny- I appreciate your videos so much. You provide lots of great information. For the begonias that are in the shade, would you cut the whole stem if it leggy and how long would it grow back. We are in zone 5 in Canada so short summer season.
The only thing that made it not so painful to watch those beautiful annuals being sheared back was Brenna wondering why too.😂 Looking forward to seeing how the annuals grow back.😊
Omgosh! That’s about as full I’ve ever seen your back patio boxes get! I just did my trimming. I felt so much better and I bet the plants did too.
Jenny thank you sooooo much for this FANTASTICALLY educational video – I need ALL the pruning/maintenance instruction I can get!!!
My daughter just graduated college in May, and now she’s moving away. You think starting college is hard. Wait until you get to my point in your life… It’s just hard letting go! Love your videos. Enjoy the time with your daughter!
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I remember that about a year or so ago you planted a bunch (15 or 17) of pitiful looking Phantom Hydrangeas. Could you give an update on these? So curious to know how they did.
This was very traumatizing to watch. I only kept watching because you said you weren’t going to be as severe on the second one, which I thought you were. You said you were trying to let the Penta’s breathe. I guess I’m wondering why you put so many plants in the container to begin with if something pretty is going to get whacked because of it. Unfortunately I watched this right before bedtime and it has upset me so much that I’m not going to be able to go to sleep. Very disturbing and cringe worthy.
In the nervous camp, but I trust you. Whacked back my petunias using your grab a handful and cut method, fertilized and now I wait. First time ever! It does feel good!
Just wondering about the feed trough you’re using as a planter, when the trough is hot in the sun, does the heat affect the roots of the plants?
Very satisfying!
Have a wonderful day with your daughter while you still can. At this point they move on quickly into their adult lives becoming very focused in them. They become more independent of our hold requiring less from us! Which you all to well know. As satisfying as that is to have them bloom into adulthood it’s difficult. I have one that has moved from home into college then to Turks, to st. Thomas to st. Martin then back to our area. The other now is in Florida. Oh how I wish for the hands of time to turn backwards yet I’m super proud of their achievements and independence. However, I miss a random lunch or a weekend dinner gatherings and movie date. Everything has to be well planned and somewhat complicated in planning as you well know the anticipation out weighs the length of time of those shared moments and they quickly pass then it’s on to the next anticipated meeting. Time is not our friend! Have an amazing day!!!🌺🌺🌺
Wozers those annuals in the deck boxes are crazy gorgeous..and will be again. I'm heading out to whack my plants today 😀 very cathartic 😂
Always love your videos,Jenny but had to chuckle when you trimmed the plants in the nursery water trough. Your potato vine reminds me of Cousin Itt from the Addams Family! Too cute! 😂
Very informative. Would like more gardening tips. Love your videos😂
HEDGETRIMMER LOL….LOVE IT JENNY!!! 😂❤😂❤
Bron
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So exciting for your daughter. I hope she will be close enough she can come home on the weekend.
Great video; thanks 💖