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Show Don't prune roses until April Nursery specialists at J & L Garden Center at 620 N. 500 West in Bountiful advise that roses shouldn't be pruned yet this spring. Gardeners should wait until the danger of frost is past before they prune usually in late April or May. Roses should be pruned severely each spring and then pruned lightly all summer. They also suggest that residents shouldn't prune spring flowering trees and shrubs yet, either. These plants include for-sythia, for-sythia, lilac, wisteria, rhododendron, flowering cherry and flowering plum. Wait until these plants finish blooming, then prune them. Azaleas and rhododendrons should not be pruned until after they have bloomed. Feed them aluminum sulphate monthly from April through July to make the soil more acid. Fertilize them monthly with vegetable and flower food. If rhododendrons look a little sick this spring, pull the old leaves off after the new leaves appear and protect the plants a little better next winter. To make hydrangeas rum blue (only pink ones will), start feeding them aluminum sulphate (not ammonia sulphate) in April. Aluminum sulphate creates an acid soil condition that will turn pink hydrangeas hy-drangeas blue. It will not turn white ones blue. Since aluminum sulphate is not a fertilizer, fer-tilizer, be sure to fertilize them with vegetable and flower food each month also. Primroses are great perennial flowers. They bloom each year, letting gardeners know spring is almost here. Primroses love cool places, so they do well in the shade, right next to the pan-sies pan-sies and tulips. Primroses will give a spring garden a new look and will bloom for an extended time if the blossoms are pinched off after they finish blooming. A second blossom will usually usual-ly appear, making the primrose plant bloom for a long time. Remember, primroses love cool areas; they do not like sunny spots. |
