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Red Robin

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  • 24-08-2011 11:54am
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    km79
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    i planted a red robin tree/shrub 2 weeks ago. majority of leaves are green with outermost ones reddish. do i need to prune to bring out more red or leave it to work away itself?


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    The Garden Shop
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    km79 wrote: »
    i planted a red robin tree/shrub 2 weeks ago. majority of leaves are green with outermost ones reddish. do i need to prune to bring out more red or leave it to work away itself?
    The red robin produces red foliage on new growth in the evergreen varieties that slowly turns to green.The deciduous varieties are almost the opposite with the leaves going from green to red in the autumn. So trimming the evergreen variety would produce new growth and new colourful foliage, but let it mature before you do anything with it to let it get a chance to settle in. Which one do you reckon you have?


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    km79
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    Amost certain it's evergreen(waxy leaves )


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    km79
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    No need to prune now. The wind has "pruned" six or seven full branches :(


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