Lady Banks

Nice looking Lady Banks you got there Harold.

Thanks! We thought it was a goner this Fall. Trimmed out a lot of dead and didn't think it would amount to much of anything. There are just as many blooms on the other side lying on the roof of a storage building.

Ban you start a Lady Banks from a cutting? My neighbor just pruned her's and is trying to start me one. Jo

I think you should use older wood canes, which is what she might be pruning. I've read somewhere to take a long cane and strip all leaves except the very tip and bury the canes in dirt leaving the tip with leaves exposed. They should root all along the cane. I'm curious tho why she is trimming now when they are in bloom? (Maybe not yet bloming in your area?)

This was about 3 weeks ago...and no blooms at this time here!! We are bloom deprived! LOL JO

You should never prune before the blooms! No wonder you're "bloom-deprived" - she probably cut off all the buds.

Harold, do you live on Glenrosa across from a park?
The reason I ask, this looks just like the LB I had when I once lived there and I had a gate right there too.

That would be pretty weird.

Heck...I'll have to tell her. Jo

Lady Banks bloom on old wood. Should not prune before the spring blooms, best to prune just after. She'll have blooms next spring....if she does not prune again.

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Thanks Mary...I'll be seeing her tomorrow and will enlighten her...Jo

Hello Becky - I'm in west Glendale near 83rd Ave & Maryland.

My house I owned here in 1986 was a twin to yours.