You can turn a SHRUB into a TREE! 🌳Vitex / Chaste Tree Growing Info + Pruning into a tree form 🌳👩🏻‍🌾

Описание: Hi Friends! You can train most large shrubs into a tree form by following these simple steps:

1. Identify your main/desired lower branches that will eventually become your tree trunk(s) Shrubs are great for creating the multi-trunk tree look!
2. Prune all lower growth that is not your desired main branches. Be sure to also prune the lower side branches from the identified main branches—creating upright leaders without lower lateral growth. This will help your plant focus more energy into vertical growth and ensure the green leafy growth is at the top of the plant.
3. Prune out any thin (think smaller than a pencil) branches even higher up on the main leaders. This helps strengthen and thicken up the leader branches.
4. As always when we’re pruning—be sure to prune out any diseased, damaged, or dead branches.
5. Throughout the growing season periodically prune out new baby growth if it appears low on the branches to continue forcing the plant into upward growth.
6. Continue this pruning habit each year—and you will have successfully turned your large shrub into a tree form!

Let me know if you have any questions!

A few examples of large Shrubs that make great small trees:
Lilacs
Viburnum
Camellia
Ligustrums
Elderberry
Vitex/Chaste
Seven-son Flower

Plants featured in this video:
🌿 Vitex ‘Shoal Creek’
🌿 Allium ‘Persian Blue’
🌿 Russian Sage ‘Denim ’n Lace’ by Proven Winners

Happy Gardening!

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