PRUNING HANDY CLIMBING PLANTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 13

PRUNING HANDY CLIMBING PLANTS

Solanuni jasminoides, S. seaforthianum, S. wendlandii only need the unripened shoots cut back and the shoots thinned to prevent over-crowding, Jasminum midifloruni, N. oftlcinate, etc. Garrva elliptiea, honeysuckle, bignonia. should be cut back directly after flowering. Actinida ehinensis (Chinese gooseberry), arnpelopsis or Virginian creeper, aristolochia, hydrangea scandens, pyracantha, berberidopsis, passiflora require little pruning beyond cutting back straggling shoots. Climbing roses of Wiehuriana types, should have the wood that flowered last year cut out and replaced by young growths. Wistaria and climbing roses. H.P. and H.T. types, should have laterals cut back, and sufficient thinning out of laterals to prevent over-crowding. Bougainvillea and vitis should have laterals eut back to main stem when leaves have fallen. Clematis flamniula, Jaekmanni, vitieella, Davidiana and utumn flowering types should be cut hard back during winter or early spring. Clematis, patens, Languiuosa and Montana types, which flower in spring or early summer, should only have weak shoots or dead wood eut out in early spring. Ceanothus, plumbago ceratostigma, should be eut back each winter to old wood.