This is helpful. I recently purchased 2. They are beautiful with red blooms . I live in southern California. With the full sun on my patio and the occasional happy hummingbird ❤
In Canberra I keep the clumps fairly dense (including dead leaves) through the Winter, for frost protection. Then in Spring I use a spring steel tine stable rake to comb out the dead leaves etc and let in the sun and air for the warm months.
would love to know if your ones ever get babies plants growing from a shoot in the root ball next to it ?? Also love to know why they always have Black spots on the Leaves ??
Doesn’t say *when* to deadhead, *when* to heavily prune. Three schools of thought: (1) Conventional School: like this guy, deadhead, heavy prune in summer or soon after. But some find this causes rapid terminal decline of plant. (2) the ‘Rose’ school of Paw Prunin’: treat em like roses, deadhead only after flowering, light prune in March, take one-third of height off maximum. The April prune should be above knee height and plant assumes a cone shape unlike roses’ wine glass shape, but so all pruning cuts are slanted 45 degrees away from Centre point, sort of just like a rose pruning cut. Cut back on water to protect rhizome from rot. Fertilize around April-May with Seamungus. Keep deadheading flower-heads only thereafter. Severe July pruning down to 10cm above ground, sort of like hard-core strict rose prune. Copper oxychloride to treat black spot. Burn all cuttings to stop spread (not for mulch). Use the steel tine rake to remove dead foliage at ground level any time through the year. (3) Do-nothing school: just leave em alone, cut back retic for winter. They’ll be fine. They grow huuuge. Light deadhead only. This way you get rhizomatous sprouts on the flower stems which can be cut off and planted. I have grown hundreds of new plants this way.
This is helpful. I recently purchased 2. They are beautiful with red blooms . I live in southern California. With the full sun on my patio and the occasional happy hummingbird ❤
In Canberra I keep the clumps fairly dense (including dead leaves) through the Winter, for frost protection. Then in Spring I use a spring steel tine stable rake to comb out the dead leaves etc and let in the sun and air for the warm months.
I just trim them hard all the way back and my Kangaroo paw Bush Fury goes nuts! Cheers!
I’m buying a few colours to fill my native garden with some height. Love them. Being in Tassie I tend to not thin them out much to protect from frost.
I’d love to get more info on the time of year I should be doing this heavy prune, and what sort of care they would need afterwards.
would love to know if your ones ever get babies plants growing from a shoot in the root ball next to it ?? Also love to know why they always have Black spots on the Leaves ??
Doesn’t say *when* to deadhead, *when* to heavily prune. Three schools of thought: (1) Conventional School: like this guy, deadhead, heavy prune in summer or soon after. But some find this causes rapid terminal decline of plant. (2) the ‘Rose’ school of Paw Prunin’: treat em like roses, deadhead only after flowering, light prune in March, take one-third of height off maximum. The April prune should be above knee height and plant assumes a cone shape unlike roses’ wine glass shape, but so all pruning cuts are slanted 45 degrees away from Centre point, sort of just like a rose pruning cut. Cut back on water to protect rhizome from rot. Fertilize around April-May with Seamungus. Keep deadheading flower-heads only thereafter. Severe July pruning down to 10cm above ground, sort of like hard-core strict rose prune. Copper oxychloride to treat black spot. Burn all cuttings to stop spread (not for mulch). Use the steel tine rake to remove dead foliage at ground level any time through the year. (3) Do-nothing school: just leave em alone, cut back retic for winter. They’ll be fine. They grow huuuge. Light deadhead only. This way you get rhizomatous sprouts on the flower stems which can be cut off and planted. I have grown hundreds of new plants this way.
What time of the year would you prune the flowers? - Late Summer, early Autumn?