Blue plumbago bursts with blooms thanks to pruning, and when it's time to cut, don't hold back

This green plant, blue plumbago, grows wildly and rampantly when it bursts with blooms, but this doesn't affect its looks. Its fresh, delicate flowers, with a hint of purple in the blue, make every flower lover who sees it want to have one. However, during care, don't be too attached to its "beauty" and forget to be ruthless, or the next year you'll only have a few scattered little flowers.

Whether it blooms or not depends on the "branches"

Momo, like other flower lovers, is especially attached to the "beauty" of blue plumbago, so after the flowers finish blooming, she can't bear to prune ruthlessly either. But you should know that blue plumbago blooms on new branches. Even if you don't prune, it still won't bloom the next year, or will bloom little, because blue plumbago generally blooms on new branches. If the old branches are not pruned, fewer new buds will sprout.

Once you know your mistake, prune, and it will burst with blooms

Now that you understand the secret to blue plumbago bursting with blooms the next year, you should prune it properly to make it sprout more new buds and grow more new branches, so it will bloom more the next year. Pruning is generally done in winter, keeping about 15 cm of each branch and cutting off the rest. In winter it must overwinter indoors at above 5°C.

The advantage of ground planting is a wall of flowers

If you have a yard at home, plant blue plumbago in the ground, and the branches will grow even more vigorously and can produce more beautiful flowers at the same time. After heavy pruning in winter, apply fertilizer once, preferably organic fertilizer specially for flowers, to supplement enough nutrients and store energy, so that more flower buds can grow the next year, and once it blooms it becomes a garden, a wall of flowers. However, in the north you should do a little cold protection; after pruning, properly cover with a layer of straw to keep warm. In the south you basically don't need to worry about this problem.

While being ruthless, also be appropriately gentle

Heavy pruning is generally done in winter, while light pruning should be done at the right time. Blue plumbago generally blooms from spring all the way to late autumn. Because blooming requires enough nutrients, while supplementing nutrients, we should also properly cut off old branches, dead branches, and weak branches. If too many of these branches are kept, they won't bloom and will only waste nutrients.

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