Keep all pruning tools out of reach of children.

Apr 06, How do you prune a royal purple smoke bush? Evaluate your smoke bush in late winter or early spring before new growth begins and select the strongest two to three Cut out all other trunks and shoots at the ground with loppers.

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Prune away lower branches with loppers or hand pruners. Jun 27, Smoke tree is an ornamental shrub to small tree that is grown for the bright, purple or yellow leaves and the spring flowers that mature and “puff” out as if they were clouds of smoke. Smoke trees tend to have a rangy, splayed growth habit.

Pruning smoke trees annually will help make the plant more compact and strengthen the bushfalling.barted Reading Time: 2 mins. Growing 10 to 15 feet tall and equally wide, the purple smoke tree may be maintained as a shrub in the background, or pruned to a tree with a single or multiple trunks and used as a focal point in. Nov 08, If you try to have it both ways -- to prune it in between -- the shrub winds up looking like a clipped poodle, with leggy growth sporting foliage only at the ends.

The smoke bush has a number of Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. Apr 09, To rejuvenate prune smokebush, randomly cut the branches to just above the next growth node (where new stems grow) to lessen the canopy by about one third. To remove a full limb, cleanly cut at a slight angle about a quarter inch from the branch bushfalling.bars: 2. Cut back hard in late winter or early spring to promote growth of new shoots and enhance the lovely leaf coloration of purple-leaved varieties.

Note that such hard pruning, while controlling the plant's size, will be done at the expense of abundant flowering. Propagate by semi-hardwood bushfalling.baress: What's My Zone? If you prefer the deep purple foliage and do not care for the flowers and plumes, you may consider pruning Royal Purple Smokebush to the ground each spring, allowing new growth to shoot upwards with healthy, vigorous leaves. This heavy pruning can be done after the plant has established (typically years in the landscape).Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.