Weigela: May 2022 upkeep

We’re in late autumn now, and this fellow is looking somewhat less lush. It’s deciduous, so I guess the leaves are going to drop soon. But also, I’d like this to look less like a shrub and more like a tree.

So onto the bench:

That’s just stuff going everywhere.

So the upkeep was:

  • reduce the long branches
  • reduce points with double branching
  • clean up the jankiness at the top of the trunk

Here’s the final result:

Weigela: May 2022 upkeep
Man, that turned out to be a lot. Did I go too far?

I used some aluminium tape to cover a couple of the branch cuts, because I heard it promotes bark regrowth. Let’s see how it goes.

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