{"id":405,"date":"2016-06-26T14:50:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=405"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:32:31","slug":"when-to-prune-a-bottle-brush-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/when-to-prune-a-bottle-brush-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"When To Prune A Bottle Brush Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/bottle-brush-plant-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/bottle-brush-plant-.jpg 650w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/bottle-brush-plant--300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/bottle-brush-plant--520x342.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/bottle-brush-plant--320x210.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/find-out-how-gardenadvice-can-help-you-in-your-garden-this-year\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/garden-plants-bar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/garden-plants-bar.jpg 648w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/garden-plants-bar-300x23.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/garden-plants-bar-520x40.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/garden-plants-bar-320x25.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bottlebrush plants flower on the current years grows so lightly prune just after the bush has finished flowering to keep them under control, cutting just behind the spent flowerhead. Most bottlebrush do not take kindly to being hard-pruned, although&nbsp;<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">C citrinus<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&nbsp;\u2018Splendens\u2019 can be cut more severely if needed, and this is also best attempted immediately after flowering.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Feeding with a high potash feed such as liquid tomato feed will help encourage flowering. In the case in which you have had to cut back your bottle brush by more than a third to control the size start feeding with a high nitrate fertilizer to encourage new stem growth.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For information on Bottle Brush plant care <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/callistemon-bottlebrush-care\/\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bottlebrush plants flower on the current years grows so lightly prune just after the bush has finished flowering to keep them under control, cutting just behind the spent flowerhead. Most bottlebrush do not take&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}