21+ Ceanothus On Frame

This is a great advantage if what you are looking for. Unlike evergreen trees the deciduous ceanothus adapts perfectly to severe pruning and can be radically renewed with pruning at ground level.

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Ceanothus on frame

Ceanothus commonly known as california lilac offers almost everything a gardener could wish for in a shrub. They just rot off. Like liked by 1 person.

How and when to prune ceanothus and californian lilac. Shortly after setting these up and based on some of the comments i got after this post i did another batch in a terracotta pot that has just been left in the cold frame otherwise unprotected. June for deciduous varieties and august for evergreen varieties.

Fast growing these desirable shrubs draw attention with their stunning flowers. In a cold frame with rooting hormone powder and half a bottle of water on top. Free flowering lovely foliage ease of cultivation drought and salt tolerance.

From that moment no be so clumsy just go back to the frame you created. Ceanothus may be grown as a free standing specimen or trained against a wall or fence. I have never grown ceanothus from cuttings but i have read that there are 2 months to do it.

More info during spring each year trim back the previous year s flowered stems to within 2 or 3 buds of the woody framework. Many seeds even ceanothus seeds are destroyed in any forest fire but the above preliminary experiments suggest that seeds of many firetype plants are very durable long lived and sufficiently resistant to high temperatures to escape destruction and to completely revegetate a heavy burn. It turns out that ceanothus cuttings do not enjoy being cooped up in a bag especially if heated.

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