Plus, Grumpy reveals the Plant of the Week, beautiful Drift Roses.
Question: When is the best time to prune a forsythia?
Eventually it gets to be really big, if you don’t prune it.
These things can get six, seven feet tall and wide.
And they just get too big for the space a lot of times.
But it’s really simple.
And without flowers, there’s no reason to have a forsythia.
One of the problems, though, is that people think it’s a no-maintenance plant.
And I’m here to tell you there’s no such thing as a no-maintenance plant.
Plants grow, and a lot of people don’t take that into consideration.
Normally, a Knock Out rose might grow to about three feet tall.
And that presents a problem pruning then, because it is viciously thorny.
Take my word for it, you don’t want to be pruning a huge Knock Out rose.
I wasn’t going to need to prune them very much.
So I opted for a new series of roses, and they’re calledDrift roses.
And they’re really marketed as ground cover roses.
They get to be about two feet tall, but then they spread out about four feet wide.
And so, it’s a nice mound that doesn’t get too big.
It comes in a lot of different colors.
I’ve got the peach colored one, and I just happen to love that color.
So, if possible, plant them in the sun.
Your soil should be well-drained.
The better your soil is, the better the plant will do.
