{"id":3061,"date":"2019-12-27T00:09:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T08:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-690\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:43:38","slug":"pruning-snowberry-bushes","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pruning-snowberry-bushes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning snowberry bushes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How and when do I prune snowberry (<em>Symphoricarpos albus<\/em>)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Symphoricarpos albus<\/em> is a suckering plant, so you can literally prune it to the ground. It will probably come back healthier than ever (assuming it&#8217;s healthy at the time), especially if you do it in early spring. Snowberry can take over and will likely crowd out lower plants; keeping it in check can be done with a lawn mower, weed eater, or by hand pruning. I suppose you could shear it or selectively prune it, but to maintain its natural growth habit, pruning it to the ground is your best bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How and when do I prune snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)? Symphoricarpos albus is a suckering plant, so you can literally prune it to the ground. It will probably come back healthier than ever (assuming it&#8217;s healthy at the time), especially if you do it in early spring. Snowberry can take over and will likely crowd out lower plants; keeping it in check can be done with a lawn mower, weed eater, or by hand pruning. I suppose you could shear it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pruning-snowberry-bushes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pruning snowberry bushes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[275,552],"class_list":["post-3061","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-pruning-shrubs","keyword-symphoricarpos-albus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/3061"}],"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\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}