Tips for Plant Pruning Pruning in different seasons will result differently depending on each plant. Late winter or early spring pruning, before buds open, is usually the best time. However, most spring blooming shrubs should be pruned directly after their first flowering or else you take the chance on losing the flower display. Summer pruning can result in damage to the plant. It can slow growth, and also cause suckers to form. Summer-blooming shrubs should be pruned in early spring or in summer immediately after they flower. Late summer or fall pruning will result in rapid re-growth.



When pruning, cut ¼” above a bud, sloping down and away from it. Try not to cut to close, or at to much of an angle, or the bud could die.