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How To Prune Perennials For Best Garden Performance | Gardening with Creekside



Knowing how to prune perennials for their best garden performance can be a bit daunting to a gardener, but it doesn’t have to be! Join me for an afternoon in the garden as I show you plant by plant how to prune specific perennials so that they will absolutely shine this growing season.

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37 Comments

  1. Nino and Lo

    Thanks for the info, I can’t wait to get out into my garden but I have to wait a few months yet

  6. GALERY KICAU

    Thank you for the video, I hope it is useful for all of us and always successful ❤️❤️❤️👍👍

  7. Kayla C

    Appreciate this visual explanation and the tips. Is this also the time to trim clethera? If so, how much do you suggest? I planted some in late summer and I not had this plant before.

  8. Sandra Soehngen

    I’m watching this and thinking Brianna is going to get in so much trouble when mommy sees she was digging in the garden. 😁

  9. Yvonne Kamer

    Thank you for this video. Last year I planted a brand new perennial bed and have some kniphofia from proven winners that I did not prune back last fall. Is it okay to prune it back now or do I wait a few weeks. I am in Chicago zone 6b. Also can you leave a link for your pop up garden bag. Thanks for all you do I really enjoy watching your channel

  11. Jon & Debbie Graff

    Excellent info Jenny! Ill be out in the garden working on perennial clean up today. I'm assuming all spireas need pruning? Candy corn and other varieties?

  12. Gretchen Kaszuba

    Good morning, here in NJ zone 7A we wait till the Forsythia blooms to prune roses. Weather here can still be bad and if we cut roses now and bad weather happens new growth will die back.

  13. L M

    Great tips today! I’ll revisit when the time is right in zone 6a. I got the rose gloves at your recommendation. They feel great. Can’t wait to put them to use (I plan to use on my Barberrys too)

  15. Sandi Stolle

    So excited to see spring at Creekside. And all those flower bulbs!
    Hey Brynna the nursery dog! Stick Day is in full swing for you! 🐾🐾❤️

  16. Siv Low

    ❤great video and valuable information. I am ready to go out there and prune all my perennials and shrubs. I have a question, can I plant my spireas candy corn, that are still in the pots from my sale purchase from back in November. I live in zone 7a nj.

  17. myopinionismine999

    I'm in 7B Ga. Are there any main bushes/grasses, that I should be in ground planting right now and/or plants (for all day full sun) summer blooms into fall or just wait till spring? Thanks

  19. Cheryl Spiel

    Around 17.00 you are trimming around the Veronica and there a pole with down turned leaves on it. What is that for??? 🤔

  23. Sherry Smith

    ??? I know I will not spell this correctly but what has happened to the healer I hollies. LOL.. anyway they have a mounding growth habit. Never need pruning. At least mine did not. Cannot seem to find any.

  24. Allen Slater

    In one of your questions and answers series could you address how you keep your grass so green through the winter? Here it is January and your grass is so pretty and green! Love your sidekick digging in the background. ☺🤗

  25. J. Lee

    Very helpful! Thank you! You can only prune reblooming spirea right now, correct? The one time bloomers like Glow Girl or Snowmound have to wait until summer for pruning, don't they? Proven Winners used to have one called Snow Storm. I loved that plant, but they've discontinued it. I also wish they had a white rebloomer.

  27. Barbara Baldwin

    Such a helpful video Jenny! I so appreciate your hands on tutorials. I am a fairly new gardener and still learning a lot of the basics. I’m in southwestern Ohio and not as warm as you but this has made me anxious to get out and clean up my beds. Also, Brenna is so fun to watch in the background!

  28. S. Barlow

    Thanks for mentioning using your state horticultural department as a resource. For me it’s Virginia Tech (VIRGINIA Cooperative Extension) and they do an awesome job with resources and publications.

  29. Tony Teshera

    Everyone consistently says to prune in late Winter, but I see all the YouTubers doing their pruning like this before January 20, which is still in the first third of Winter. So everyone seems to really be pruning in early Winter. Am I missing something?

  30. Igor L

    I have 40 trees orchard and that's something you have to prune in late winter early spring so I do all of my cleanup in fall, only didn't prune hydrangeas and butterfly bushes although I did clip off spent blooms both on hydrangeas and butterfly bushes, with all the rain we get in this period, spent blooms on them in my eyes look like rotten mess and not winter interest 😆😅

  31. Sandie's Orchids +

    Brynna needs a buddy to play with.❤🐶🐾🐾🐶❤ The cold will come here in Canada🍁 we have had a fairly mild winter -4c – -7c for most of it but it is only January 19 now we still have 'February'❄🌬 and March to go.

  32. Ryan Bolton

    Do you have a video on just the harry lauder’s walking stick? In particular when it is in full bloom. I just planted one last fall.

  37. Geai Zee

    Thank you very much, I was just watching for the enjoyment as I have very few perennials and I learned I need to go prune my cone flowers.

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