How to Prune a Bird of Paradise : Great Gardening

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Pruning a bird of paradise is something that you can do by starting with the base of the plant. Prune a bird of paradise with help from an experienced professional gardener on a mission to make gardening stylish, fun and simple in this free video clip.

Expert: Nell Foster
Filmmaker: James Tucker

Series Description: When doing your gardening, you'll always want to remember that each plant will have its own unique needs. Get tips on great gardening with help from an experienced professional gardener on a mission to make gardening stylish, fun and simple in this free video series.

[RollaSu]

We never saw what you were cutting or where you were cutting because the camera was a static shot and all the action took place outside of the viewing range.  Not so good.

[awakentruth]

There's 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back!

[mariachristina]

Why is the camera not showing what she is supposed to be demonstrating, at the base of the plant?? Not helpful lol

[SilentSteve]

I shouldn't complain because I couldn't have done a video like this myself but I have to agree with most people here that this was worthless. I wanted to learn how to trim back several overgrown BOP plants and was especially looking for images around the base of the plant. Instead the most time spent on any one image is twirling a pretty BOP blossom back and forth.

[audreyanderson]

I am amazed that this gardener is supposedly showing how to prune an imaginary plant! She starts by telling you that she doesn't have any of the said plants in her garden, then she holds up one leaf and one bloom which is apparently supposed to represent a real plant??? Crazy! Just crazy!!!

[michaeltolbert]

I have a mature giant BOP that has become unruly. Can I cut it all the way back to the ground and let it respurt or will this kill it. I live in Florida on the gulf coast and the climate it very good for this plant. I assume winter is the best time to deadhead it all the way to the ground?

[chrisrenegar]

I've read that pruning is done only in the Spring, is that true? Can I do it now with it being close to Fall? Thanks.

[ellenhofer]

If you know what a bird of paradise looks like, you can see it in the upper left hand corner right behibd her.

I pruned mine and left 1 foot stalks looks like I will be doing more pruning as soon as the rain stops.

[silverwings]

I wish I could see where you cut it at.

[msgfrmdaactionman]

Thanks, I have a tall one that I didn't cover this year in North Florida and now it looks dead. Hope it comes back but I would have trimmed it wrong without your help!

[twowisehands]

Some of my bird of paradise leaves are turning in on themselves. What should I do? My plants are five years old and they are just starting to bloom, at least one of them is. They get about seven hours of sun each morning.

[lagartija]

all the time is showing the flower, not exactly the place to cut, and the way to do it...?

[Eugenita]

My bird of paradise is really struggling. It's indoors, gets bright indirect light, I water it every couple of weeks but the soil just won't dry out, and the leafs have dry brown spots on it. Recently this week, I watered it and one of the leaves started turning yellow. Any suggestion? Zone 7ish Tennessee

[destiny]

Nice gloves...I couldn't see anything else..

[jessical]

HMM. This looks professional, yet for some reason the intention was lost due to the obvious. Maybe they forgot to review and edit this one. 

[lionblood]

I can't see where you pruned it at. 😢

[saifsalah]

The bird of paradise I have small thin leaves! ?
Is it because of the small size of the pot?
Or because of a cold wave?
Or what?

[saifsalah]

The garden is wonderful and clean
amazing plant
The strange thing is that the bird of paradise is one of the most expensive plants!!? I do not know why?!
I live in Iraq and the weather is long and hot. The farmers advised me not to cover the bird of paradise until it adapts to the heat and becomes strong.

[beefermatic]

Really? What's sad is this is the best video up on Youtube, apparently. All the others don't show anything, or are done using freaking chainsaws... just amazing, great job, wow, you nailed it.

[yuckyoo]

You don't need to cut anything with a bird of paradise, you actually can pull the dead flower stems right out. Sometimes it requires a bit of muscle but that way more flowers will sprout to take their place. I was pretty surprised that this video indicated cutting the dead flowers...