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How to Maintain Abelia - Description and Care Instructions
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2023
- How to Maintain Abelia - Description and Care Instructions - In this video I show off several different Abelia varieties and talk though and demonstrate maintenance of them. Abelia are great landscape plants for pollinators. They are deer resistant, pest resistant and drought tolerant.
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Apparently, I can't spell resistant. Thanks for watching and following along with the channel.!
I'm Oklahoma 7b and planted Abelia kaleidoscope early fall. We had that massive drop in temp in November to -3 for three nights. Now the abelia looks dead with no green leaves. How do I know if it's totally dead and if I need pull it out and replace? Thanks for all your helpful video's!
Oh we don’t care if you can’t spell, Jim! We just love your landscape knowledge! 😂
@@lalaydade3364did you try scratching the stem to find life? I’ve been wandering my yard scratching everything!! 😆
I have a 30year old abelia,it is now in the wrong place, can it be moved once it has been cut down, or should I just take some cuttings, this is looking lovely, but needs another area, . Thanks for your video.
My 5 Rose Creek abelias completely defoliated in the arctic blast in my zone 7b garden near Atlanta. They have just begun showing green buds all along the stems. Thanks for showing me how to prune them! Each one has several tall, thick stems. Headed outside with my Felcos! I’ve learned so much from you, even though I’m a 40 year gardener. Thank you!
I love Abelias. Practically bullet proof and they don't get eaten. And beautiful foliage colors. Here in 6b/7a they bloom late summer into fall when you need flowers, and hold the leaves for a very long time. I have four of them, and some are almost bare, others half leafed in February. Sun, part sun, part shade, they're fine. I had one at the old house in total shade 6 months of the year, so it got pretty leggy. I chopped it to the ground late every year and it grew back full size by summer. Don't be afraid to thin out any brown bits. Trimmed stems are really nice in floral arrangements to add some color.
Jim, can you do a video on how you are going to clean up that Ivy? Thanks
Really liked how you showcased the Abelias into one video like that comprehensively. Would like to see one like this on the loropetalums!!
You're right about the color of 'Kaliedoscope' winter foliage. It's a orange-pink that doesn't blend with red brick walls. I'm thinking I will prune them to the ground annually in December and enjoy the bright chartreuse foliage that emerges next year. I just planted 'Edward Goucher' hoping it will grow tall enough to hide the neighbor's too-bright white vinyl fence.
I used to grow _Abelia mosanensis_ up in zone 4 MInnesota when I lived there. Nice scent, semi-hardy and good red fall foliage. Deciduous.
I've had 5 abelias in the front of my house for almost 2 decades. They've been "meatballed", "cup-caked" and left natural over the years all depending on my mood. Those long shoots you don't want are great cut and used as a bouquet. I love the yellow-green leaves and red stems. Great contrast. In the horrible arctic freeze we had in 2020 they took a scary nose dive into almost permanent dormancy. The following year they were cut back to a foot but didn't look like they were going to make back but for a very few sprouts. Then last year after fertilizing and mulching and watering as if newly planted (which they never needed really) they made a surprising come back, some more so than others. I even dug one really bad looking one up and transplanted it elsewhere. It did semi-okay and hopefully will do better this spring. Great shrub. Even the spent blossoms are pretty.
P.S. My abelias are planted on the N, NE and E sides between Yaupon hollies. Zone 7a Great Plains.
Jim put Abelia on my radar screen. Can't make up my mind which I want! So obviously I need them all . . .
Great timing, I could tell it was time to do something with them. I just wasn’t sure what to do
Oh thank you for this! I’ve been wanting one or several of these and you have given me hope so I can try some out! 😃
I've been so interested in Abelia lately! This video is timely and I'm here for it. Thank so much as always Jim 👍🏼
So So Appreciate you Kim and these very helpful videos!!!! Thanks so much!!!! Judy
Thank you for showing how to prune items in our garden.
I absolutely love how you prune the shrubs for shape by taking the long shoots right back , and then hey presto the shapes there , love it , thanks so much can't wait to get at mine 👍👍👍
Great video Jim,watching from 🇬🇧
Excellent video with great information all about these hardy little suckers! Thanks so much!!
Really well explained, many thanks
Super helpful video. Do you have an update on how they’re looking now?
Ordered my Miss Lemon and Kaleidoscope Abelias online, now I am waiting for warmer weather to plant them (I can't wait!) I never heard of them before until I found the HT channel and glad I did.
I have an almost 30 year old Abelia that is out of control. This was just the video I needed. Thank you. The limbs you cut off Miss lemon that seemed to be rooting along the limb. Could you use those to create more plants?
Thank you! Very helpful
My next door neighbor has one of the tall varieties. North side of their house so no sun, but it has pretty pink hanging blooms all summer, very slight fragrance, and the honey bees and bumble bees swarm all over it. A very cool plant.
I did not realize that some Abelia really should be considered semi evergreen in the colder ranges. Here in zone 7a on the SW KY border, I've got a few Little Richard which lost all their leaves, save the ones up against the brickwork. The Kaleidoscope flanking them though fare better. Not sure if it was the cold snap or ice storm that defoliated it. Will have to see how they do this next season and decide on if I want to move them then.
Planted 4 in my garden a couple weeks ago 😃
Thanks Jim. No one on UA-cam has ever explained or done the rejuvenate pruning on Abelias. I wasn’t sure myself if that was an option. I have a huge abelia shrub which I tree formed. Not sure which one since it was there since I moved in the house over 20 years ago. It’s 8-9 ft tall. I would love to just hack it down to to reset it. The branches look old & tired. Otherwise it’s just beautiful & blooms yearly. Pollinators love it.
Can you update? I have a same tree formed Abelia. I’m not sure if it’s okay to keep it as a shrub or tree form would be healthy too? (I like it tall)
Hi Jim, thanks for all the informative videos! They’ve inspired a lot of my landscaping plans for this year. I live in the Pacific Northwest in a new house, and just cut an established but very overgrown Red Osier Dogwood (Oregon native) to the ground to try and rejuvenate it. It looked very healthy last Summer - fully leafed out and flowered fairly well. I actually cut the canes all the way to the ground instead of leaving a foot or so on the shrub. Do you think this may have killed my dogwood?
I have 4 that have been in rhe ground for 6 years in 7b and all are just clumps of bare stems after our devastating temperature drops and harsh winds in December. Not a single sign of life yet. A landscaper planted them and didn't specify the variety. I susoect they are miss lemon or kaleidascope. They are not huge and I have to prune extensively in Spring to keep them in check. Lovely yellow green until fall when they have a beautuful russet tinge.
I have 3 kaleidoscope plants that have never done anything in two years. They are thin, small with spindly stems. I am in 9b and these are planted in full sun. I originally planted them in gopher cages because of concern for encroaching activity from my neighbor's yard. Do you think the cages could have impeded the root system somehow?
Hey Jim, how about some gloves for this kind of pruning? My Abelia are the short squatty varieties. I will be pruning accordingly.
What brand of bypass loppers are you using ? Thanks Your channel is so helpful.
Do you think I could do the almost chop to the ground on a very very old lilac? I would wait until after it bloomed but it’s so old and gnarly it isn’t a pretty site. I had considered just pulling it out of the ground, but I do enjoy lilacs. ❄️💚🙃
Hi Jim, planted my Kaleidoscope Abelia a year ago and they've done great but now need some pruning (will wait until late winter as your video suggested). But, have you ever heard... "don't prune abelia for 3 years once planted, so it can acclimate?"
Jim do you know if Abelia are affected by Black Walnut trees? The info on shrubs affected is a bit sketchy. Wouldn't be planting directly underneath, but thanks to the wildlife those nuts really get around, not to mention the leaves[ not that they are supposedto be a problem] however there are thousands of long thick stems that seem to get everywhere! Would really appreciate some advice on the matter.
When I lived in a apartment years ago I had the most beautiful abelia in part shade with filtered sun. They were always fun of flowers. I think the foliage is prettier when they get some shade. I have one now on the Southside of my house that gets a lot of sun and foliage isn't as pretty and I don't get a lot of flowers. I have a lemon abelia on the east side of my house and the foliage is really pretty. They don't get that green yellow look in full sun. I live in the south and gets to hot for just about any shrub. I lost a lot of cleyera when the cold spell hit the south this year with 18 below temps. Very rare for the south. Hope it never happens again i lost all my cleyera except four that are coming back. I had ten all together. I think abelia and cleyera are some of the prettiest shrubs and easy to take care of. Trim back in spring and nothing the rest of year. Just some lite trimming on new shoots. I have azaleas in front of my house that are really pretty. Get the fashion azaleas because they are very resistant to insects and diseases and very cold weather. My foliage died back in the cold spell but put some peat moss around them and now they're really shining. Only thing I fertilize with is peat moss. My mom used this a lot in her beds. I put some around my neighbors azaleas that look terrible and now they look gorgeous. I don't use pest moss to much anymore because where it comes from it's getting depleted. Just a good organic compost or humus would do the job and some alfalfa meal in the spring.
What about propogating from stem cuttings? should that be done once new growth appears in April/May? What about root division? Is that best done now, in Febuary while plant is still dormant? There are tons of abelia in the landscape at work and I'm sure he landscapers wouldn't mind me taking some cuttings or root divisions if I asked. Especially as they tend to just trim everything to the ground...
Roots easily in June and July
Do you deadhead the spent blooms?
I am in zone 8 and my Abelias lose their leaves ever year. I have radiance, kaleidoscope, rose creek, miss lemon and grandifloria. .... They all lose their leaves in winter.
I'm in zone 8a, and my rose creek get "thin" in the winter.
@m04f04m mine are in their third year, but our neighborhood does get very windy.
Abelia grandiflora is definitively a semi evergreen even in zone 9A. I have one planted since 30 years as a screening plant by the road. Does a terrible job in winter as it is thin and seethrough. When you prune it, it shouts water sprouts that are high maintenance. I just wish I got rid of it but the roots are too deep. I planted an osmanthus in front of it to hopefully forget about it. Sorry Jim, I usually agree with you on many plant choices but this one is a no no for me.
How come mine aren’t mounds, but more spikes? I have the rose creek
It may depend on where you are pruning them. If you prune Abelia near the outer part of the plant, the resultant new growth will spike out in different directions. Jim's pruning tips for Miss Lemon in late winter are a great guideline. Find the tallest branches that are spiking out, follow those branches toward the center of the shrub, and prune them there. The new growth will be much lower and will keep the shrub fuller. Be aware that pruning them this way may make them look a bit sparse throughout the shrub with leaves, but the new growth coming from the center will quickly fill them in.
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