Winter Pruning: Companions
Clip: Season 28 | 1m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
See why to progressively prune grasses and herbaceous perennials.
We don’t have to cut everything back all at once. See why to progressively prune grasses and herbaceous perennials with Leslie Uppinghouse, horticulturist at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
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Winter Pruning: Companions
Clip: Season 28 | 1m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
We don’t have to cut everything back all at once. See why to progressively prune grasses and herbaceous perennials with Leslie Uppinghouse, horticulturist at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipHi, this is Leslie Uppinghouse and I'm at the Wildflower Center, and I am right now in the Hill Country Meadow.
This is a garden where I wanted to show you, you don't have to cut back everything in the winter.
And in fact, I would recommend for large spaces to not cut everything back in the winter.
So in this great big bed, which is really wide and really deep, what I've done design wise for planting is I have about the first three or four feet of the bed year round and so for the winter I'm cutting back things like prairie goldenrod, my winecup, my echinacea.
So that gives room for all of my springtime blooming annuals, like a bluebonnet to have lots of light and come up big and strong in the spring.
But after about three feet all the way around the bed, I'm leaving everything up all winter long.
I do this so that I have interest.
I have some texture interest with the liatris stalks.
I have the great big muhlys behind me.
I also have some bushy bluestem behind me and I want to have this for color, for texture, but I also want to have good habitat for all of the wildlife that the Wildflower Center here supports.
So I'm going to wait to cut the rest of this garden until probably mid-February with the bright green growth of things coming up this winter that will bloom in the spring.
It's really lovely and beautiful.
So for Backyard Basics, this is an option for you for the winter.
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