How Do You Prune A Hibiscus Plant?
“Hi this is Yolanda Vanveen and in this segment I want to talk about how to prune a hibiscus plant. Now hibiscus are a beautiful beautiful addition to your garden so there’s different types of hibiscus and they all come from tropical areas so most varieties don’t like to freeze but this variety right here is a hardy hibiscus that at least in the Northwest I can leave it outside. Now the sunset varieties that have the huge tropical flowers that you see in Hawaii a lot of times those will not Winter over in colder climates so you have got to bring them inside as soon as it gets below 50 degrees but hibiscus are really easy to grow and they’re easy to prune and there is a few rules that you should follow. So as long as the foliage looks okay then you don’t really need to mess with your hibiscus but you’ll notice as they get done blooming that if you just cut out the dead blooms, I actually like to cut the greenery down too to the, you don’t want to cut the stems but you just cut the bloom
