August Is Your Last Chance To Prune These 8 Plants - And 3 You Must Not Touch

🔗 Get a beautiful perennial garden with less watering, fewer costly mistake from Henry’s Garden Blueprint: https://henrysgardensecrets.com/ This week, most of your yard quietly stopped being something you cut. Nobody announced it. The middle of August is the line - two universities print that exact date, two more say it in their own words - and you have just crossed it. None of that is your fault. The rule you were handed is measured from your first frost, and it came out of a nursery production manual, not a garden one. So this is where we actually stand. Eight jobs, some of which you have missed by days and some that still have until the thirty-first. Then three plants you must not put a blade near - and one of them is the thing half the internet is telling people to cut this week. Number eight is the one you have been worrying about for nothing, and a trial settled it. Number one is not a date at all. It is one sentence from Colorado State about a cut that never grows back, on a shrub that is in more American front gardens than almost anything else. I made that cut myself in about two thousand six and the scar is still there. Everything here is sourced to land-grant extension services. Where they disagree with each other - and on two of these they flatly do - I give you both and tell you how to choose. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT OUT THERE? Tell me in the comments what you have off this list, and put your state next to it. That second part matters more than you would think - the same job moves by two full months between Minnesota and Georgia, and the video explains why. I read every one. SUBSCRIBE I have kept a notebook for thirty-five years. This channel is mostly somebody going and reading the university sheet before telling you what to do. Sources referenced: Clemson HGIC, Rutgers NJAES, Iowa State University Extension, University of Maryland Extension, University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension, Colorado State University Extension, University of Minnesota Extension, UGA Extension, Penn State Extension, Illinois Extension, University of Missouri Extension, NC State Extension, Missouri Botanical Garden, Oregon State University Extension, University of New Hampshire Extension, UConn IPM. #augustgardening #pruning #pruningtips #gardenmistakes #boxwood #junipers #roses #wisteria #hydrangea #ornamentalgrasses #shrubs #gardeningforseniors #americangardening #fallgardenprep #evergreens