{"id":712,"date":"2022-10-02T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/?p=712"},"modified":"2022-10-02T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:10:39","slug":"regenerating-garden-shrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/regenerating-garden-shrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Regenerating garden shrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/10\/hypericum.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/10\/hypericum.jpg 650w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/10\/hypericum-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/10\/hypericum-520x694.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/10\/hypericum-320x427.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>Hypericum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lots of common garden shrubs can be regenerated by a hard prune back into bare stems.<br>Once the plants are pruned back into bare stems the additional sunlight activates dormant buds in the stems.<br>After pruning back feeding with a general feed such as Growmore and then when the new buds start to grow on the bare stems that have been left in the spring ( April ) start to feed once every two weeks with a high nitrate fertilizer such as Miricle-gro and keep the plant well watered.<br>In your case the buddleia near to the pergola at the rear of the garden can be cut back by two-thirds and the other plant\u00a0Hypericum perforatum\u00a0can also be pruned back to two thirds<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/10\/buddliea.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/10\/buddliea.jpg 650w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/10\/buddliea-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/10\/buddliea-520x694.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2022\/10\/buddliea-320x427.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>Buddleia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>When you cut back the buddleia you can take some <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-how-to\/garden-plants\/growing-from-hardwood-cuttings\/\">hardwood cuttings<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of common garden shrubs can be regenerated by a hard prune back into bare stems.Once the plants are pruned back into bare stems the additional sunlight activates dormant buds in the stems.After pruning&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/evangeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}