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Pruning nandina for border
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Posted by stevega 7b (My Page) on Tue, Oct 24, 06 at 8:40
| I am developing a Japanese inspired garden and I have just planted a border of dwarf evergreen blueberries to form a hedge for enclosure from the lawn. For enclosure from the natural aea, I have planted plum passion nandina. I did not like the look when they were foliage all the way to the ground. It blocked the view of the stone border and just looked wrong. I pruned the lower growth to about a foot off the ground to bare some of the bamboo feel and reveal the stone border.
I am asking for opinions whether to prune up even farther, to let the lower foliage grow in again or even to relocate the nandina outside the stone border.
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RE: Pruning nandina for border
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| I have experience with pruning nandina in this manner. i say let the nandina recover awhile before pruning again. then reprune the bottom, the nandina should respond with top growth. however, having them in a row like that looks most unnatural. try using them as a screen to hide something of interest so as to encourage a discovery. Meigakure--"may-gah-koor-ay" this is called in japanese. |
RE: Pruning nandina for border
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Matsuo-thank you for your reply. Actually, I was trying to use nandinas for two purposes. The first was to enclose the Japanese garden area and separate/seclude it from other areas. The second purpose is to use it as you indicate, to screen the details of the japanese garden area and to invite entrance and discovery as you approach it from the bottom of the second picture (pathway begins at lower right of second picture).
The nandinas follow the contour of the low rock wall which is not a straight line but they still appear to be pretty much in a line. Should I move the center Nandia farther from the wall for a w shape or perhaps to the other side of the wall and form an elongated curve? |
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