Pruning is essential to routine hibiscus care—it ensures that the plant produces the large, stunning flowers that make hibiscus one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs you can grow. The more ...

For hardy, native hibiscus shrubs, such as the popular swamp mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos, it is 'best to prune in the fall once they have lost their leaves,' Tatiana adds, 'typically doing so ...

A. You can prune hibiscus most anytime, but if you prune now, any tender new growth will be more vulnerable to freeze. If you can wait, try to do so until early spring, when there's no longer a ...

My hibiscus plants have become too large for the area that they are planted in. Can I prune them now? Also what can you tell me about the dwarf hibiscus that I've seen at some nurseries? Pruning ma… ...

Renewal pruning, cutting deep inside the shrub and removing larger wood, results in a flush of sucker growth from the remaining stubs that will be succulent and produce lots of leaves and flowers.

May is the ideal time to prune tropical hibiscus if your shrubs are planted outdoors and you live in a climate with winter and early spring frosts, or if you overwinter plants indoors and are ...

Prune hibiscus now. This is a plant that flowers on current season’s growth so you do not need to be concerned about sacrificing flowers whose buds formed last fall, as is the case with ...

May is an important month for pruning as it can help encourage blooms later in the year. Here are some plants which need to be cut back before the end of the month.

Prune hibiscus as needed. They don't need a period of dormancy. You can snip to shape or if you wish to prune more heavily, take about a third of the plant at a time.