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Gardening in mediterranean climates => General Cultivation => Topic started by: Alisdair on July 05, 2011, 11:29:07 AM

Title: Prune in summer for second (autumn) flowering
Post by: Alisdair on July 05, 2011, 11:29:07 AM

John Fielding has kindly got some advice for us from Marcus Ryan, Australian nurseryman, about encouraging spring-flowering or early summer-flowering herbaceous plants such as some salvias, Achillea hybrids and globe flowers to have a second flowering in autumn. Marcus recommends a drastic midsummer pruning. See here (http://www.mgsforum.org/smf/index.php?topic=49.msg114#msg114) for more detail.