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Can you/should you hard prune Cistus?

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CassandraProphesying · 04/06/2024 13:00

Just that really.
Years ago before I knew anything about plants (and I’m still learning by trial and error) I lived in house that already had a cistus in the garden. It was gorgeous and I used to hack it back hard at the end of flowering (as it used to get so big) it used to come back every year, with extra growth and an abundance of gorgeous flowers. I loved it and so I’ve planted a few in my garden a couple of year ago. They’ve now got quite leggy and there’s less flowers but when I googled I see the advice is not to prune too hard? As I said I garden by trial and error (currently moving Lupins to the bit where there are a lot less slugs 🙄) but I’d still like to not kill off anything accidentally!

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CassandraProphesying · 04/06/2024 16:32

Hmmm, yes that’s what I have read however I know that I definitely have done so to a Cistus in the past and got excellent results with vigorous growth and more flowers - I wonder if it’s one of those plants where there’s one type that you can but all the other types you can’t? Hoping someone else can enlighten me!

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haddockfortea · 04/06/2024 16:40

Maybe a plant that had been long-established with a large and vigorous root system was able to tolerate it and bounce back?

CassandraProphesying · 04/06/2024 17:36

Oh yes, possibly, that would make sense. It was huge when I moved in so probably had been there for a long time. I might just give it a go on one of them (that I, frankly, planted in an unsuitable spot) and see what happens next year.

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