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Pruning Calendar

When to prune or cut back each plant, ordered by what needs tackling right now — then what's coming next.

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Blanket Flower 'Goblin'

Gooseneck Loosestrife

Leopard Plant 'Bottle Rocket'

Black-eyed Susan 'Goldblitz'

Clustered Bellflower 'Superba'

Black-eyed Susan 'Goldsturm'

Black-eyed Susan 'Viette's Little Suzy'

Allium 'Avatar'

Aster 'Wood's Purple'

Giant Solomon's Seal

Japanese Anemone 'Whirlwind'

Leopard Plant 'Osiris Fantaisie'

Aizoon Stonecrop

Avens 'TEMPO™ Orange'

Avens 'TEMPO™ Yellow'

Spiked Speedwell

Spiked Speedwell 'Pink Potion'

Spiked Speedwell 'Purple Illusion'

Tickseed 'Zagreb'

Wild Indigo 'Lemon Meringue'

Japanese Maple 'Inaba-shidare'

Beardtongue 'Dark Towers'

Astilbe 'Visions'

Coneflower 'Adobe Orange'

Coneflower 'Fiesta Orange'

Coneflower 'Firefinch'

Dwarf Fountain Grass 'Hameln'

Japanese Maple 'Crimson Queen'

Japanese Maple 'Tamukeyama'

Japanese Spiraea

Little Bluestem 'Carousel'

Little Bluestem 'Standing Ovation'

Stonecrop 'Mojave Jewels Sapphire'

Tickseed 'Crazy Cayenne'

Astilbe 'Dark Side of the Moon'

Astilbe 'Rock and Roll'

Beardtongue 'Husker's Red'

Blue Fescue 'Elijah Blue'

Catmint 'Junior Walker'

Coneflower 'PowWow White'

Coral Bells 'Black Pearl'

Coral Bells 'Pistachio Ambrosia'

Giant Hyssop 'Kudos Mandarin'

Japanese Painted Fern 'Godzilla'

Purple Coneflower

Red-twig Dogwood 'Arctic Fire'

Variegated Sweet Flag

Yarrow 'New Vintage Red'

Yarrow 'Tutti Frutti'

Astilbe 'Amethyst'

Avens 'Mrs. Bradshaw'

Japanese Astilbe 'Rheinland'

Single Mum 'White Bomb'

Beardtongue 'Arabesque Red'

Globe Blue Spruce

Showy Stonecrop

Sitka Spruce 'Silberzwerg'

Weeping Blue Spruce

Dahurian Rhododendron

Fernspray Hinoki Cypress

Flame Thrower Redbud

Golden Mop False Cypress

Greenstem Forsythia

Emerald Arborvitae

Northern Bayberry

Canadian Hemlock 'Moon Frost'

Egyptian Walking Onion

Japanese Pieris

Eastern Red Columbine

Mountain Laurel 'Carousel'

Ninebark 'Tiny Wine'

Weeping White Pine 'Angel Falls'

Japanese Snowball

Peachleaf Bellflower 'Takion Blue'

Blue-eyed Grass

Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Alice'

Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Gatsby Moon'

Bigleaf Hydrangea

Prune now

Pruning times follow each plant's care notes and shift a little year to year with the weather. Annual vegetables, which are simply pulled at season's end, are left off the calendar.