Front Foundation Refresh - Part 12: Rejuvenation Prune 🌳🪚✂️

Join me as I continue on in the new series: Front Foundation Refresh. We're going to fix up the front garden beds, and hopefully turn them into a beautiful, welcoming, all-season garden area that we can be proud of.

In this twelfth video, I'm taking care of some of the Burford Hollies which have seen better days, by giving them a rejuvenation prune. It can seem drastic, but I'm risking it anyway. Hopefully they'll flush back out and be better for it!

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[timezones]

Thank you for this! I have 3 cherry laurels that are just OUT OF CONTROL! They no longer need a trim…. they need a full rejuvenation!

Fingers crossed.

[ElizabethGraves]

The house looks so different when you can see the entirety of the window frames! Definitely the right path for the structure of the garden in relation to the house; whether they make it or are sent to garden heaven (aka compost and campfires!)

[laurelrosegardens]

Godspeed little hollies! May the force be with you!

[bronwynodonnell]

There’s nothing like a hard prune, nothing ventured northing gained. Cheers Bronwyn 🇦🇺

[jasminelouisefarrall]

I think they will be fine, they can dwell on getting their roots established now 💕 the house looks beautiful in the end scene 🥰

[ip]

I think they will survive, Jenny. I thansplanted a China boy holly to the outside fence area and rabbits ate it down to bare main branches over the winter. So it went back into the fenced garden this spring and is doing fine!

[elmaelmar]

I think doing this was smart!! Hopefully they bounce back and if not oh well a chance to plant something new!! 💕🌸🌸

[pattipostcard]

Fingers crossed! Window boxes sound lovely!

[hdab]

I did a hard prune last year on my old fashioned Rose of Sharon. (They drop seeds everywhere and sprout new plants. Not sterile like the newer species.)
Surprisingly they not only put out new growth, they actually bloomed. I got these from my mother and I'm not yet willing to let them go. I did find some new volunteers which I could transplant to another location where they possibly won't be such a problem and take out the mother plant from where it is now.
Holding out hope for your hollies, hopefully there's been enough time for the roots to establish and support new growth. They look good, fingers crossed.

[MisBunnypics]

I bet your hollies will do fine especially getting the warmth from your house in winter being near the foundation. I'd hit them with some liquid root starter fertilizer. I think window boxes will look fabulous on your house their so much fun to decorate to the season. Love your videos you get a thumbs up before I even start watching.

[doloresramirez]

Yes, prayers that they survive
No, I can't say I am a risk taker..Good luck👍🙏

[joycelynbell]

Pruning seems to be the right way to go....I hopeful & keeping my fingers crossed 🤞🏾 I think window boxes is a fabulous idea 🤓

[ThaoPham-gjvm]

Great pruning. They now have a nice shape 🙂

[Edu_Kate]

I rejuvenation pruned my dwarf (yeah, right) mock orange shrubs this spring to about 4-6" high. They filled out nearly as high as the bottom of my bay window. I hope next year I get blooms, they have such a beautiful fragrance...when I don't prune off the next season's blooms in July.

For your transplanted holly on the right, in a year or two, when new growth grows tall, you could saw off those two larger diameter branches. Ideally, you should keep removing really old "stems" on a regular rotation. I've learned so much about pruning 30 years after I started gardening. 🥴

[colsen]

I need to address a decades old rhododendron that is a big 8’ blob blocking the front of the house in front of the porch. We experimented with moving another one a couple years ago, without success, and hesitate trying again even though I know a lot more now than I did then about the process. I want to try arborizing it, but lol that first cut just isn’t happening! I’ll bet your rejuvenation pruning will turn out great. I did that to some Oregon Grape last fall and they were fabulous this year.

[kimfox]

I'm so happy that you've decided to give these holly bushes a chance. I imagine you did some reading up about these before the prune so perhaps it's not really a risk but the only chance they have of survival. I have a hunch that you will be rewarded. Give them plenty of water 😉

[christellet]

Well done 👍 I'm sure it will work. Better than just limping along. 💞

[jackiephelps]

I hard pruned my boxwoods that were poorly pruned, last summer down to stump with no leaves and they are looking beautiful this year. I'm in Zone 8b so we don't get really cold weather.

[kathrynmettelka]

After losing native loquats in a February artic blast in 8b Central Texas, I've put in hollies, acuba, and some native Texas redbuds. We'll see what happens. The risks I'm taking are putting in an Annabelle hydrangae and an oakleaf hydrangea, as well as 2 coral bark Japanese maples. The hydrangeas may need too much water for Central Texas so it's a risk. The 2 coral barks made it through the summer, traditionally our toughest season, though last winter was a monster. Live and learn. Gardening is an adventure.

[mandyhassell]

Hope they come back beautifully for you Jennie 👍🥰x