{"id":2473,"date":"2019-11-07T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-136\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T13:31:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T20:31:39","slug":"pruning-lavatera-trees","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pruning-lavatera-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"pruning lavatera trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When and how do I prune my lavatera tree? We used to think this plant was a bush!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Lavatera<\/em> does tend to grow vigorously, and can get quite woody. You can cut a third off the top of each stem in late autumn, and then in mid-spring finish your pruning by cutting all the previous year&#8217;s growth to about 6 inches from the ground. Hard pruning will encourage flowering, and keep the plant more compact. New shoots may be slow to appear (may not happen until early summer).<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, a small start of <em>Lavatera<\/em> turned into an 8 foot tree in one year, and because it was in a spot where a tree was not desirable, I took a cutting, then dug up the plant, and started afresh&#8211;but this may be an extreme solution to the problem!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When and how do I prune my lavatera tree? We used to think this plant was a bush! Lavatera does tend to grow vigorously, and can get quite woody. You can cut a third off the top of each stem in late autumn, and then in mid-spring finish your pruning by cutting all the previous year&#8217;s growth to about 6 inches from the ground. Hard pruning will encourage flowering, and keep the plant more compact. New shoots may be slow&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pruning-lavatera-trees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pruning lavatera trees<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[33,32],"class_list":["post-2473","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-lavatera","keyword-shrubs-care-and-maintenance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/2473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}