Show Spring Pruning Most of your early spring pruning should be completed by the spring flowering shrubs and trees should be pruned after they finish blooming and the conifers or evergreen trees with needles should be pruned as the new growth states Melvin S. Area THERE are people who have clematis who wonder how to prune Timing and method of pruning depends on the particular clematis you are all new plants should be cut back to about 12 such as the that produce flowers from June to fall on new wood should be given a hard yearly or prune back to one or two THE varieties that produce large flowers through the spring and early summer on last year's and then produce smaller flowers on young wood should receive little Clematis in this group are like of or the Burningham says there is a group of Clematis that can be pruned lightly or according to whether you want a lot of bloom of or a few large This is the group that the or Ramona fit |