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Flower ID please

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  • 01-04-2018 11:23am
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    Lumen
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    Last winter these flowers made it all the way through.

    Not this year.

    Anyone know what it is? Multi stemmed about 2.5m high.

    Getting a bit leggy anyway. Can I prune it now?

    28 Sept
    tumblr_p6i4giM5VM1xnffkqo1_400.jpg

    Today
    tumblr_p6i4iqDJP51xnffkqo1_400.jpg


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    TAZ32
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    Its an Abutilon, which orange variety could be of many. Plenty of cultivars there. Leave it another month or so, should recover fine.


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    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,072 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Thanks, so maybe Abutilon x hybridum Orange King.

    When should I prune it?

    RHS says "Late flowering evergreen shrubs (Pruning group 9)

    Timing: Prune mid- to late spring".

    Presumably that's mid-May this year?


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    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Hack it back as much as you like almost anytime you like. Also cuttings root very very easily.

    Down sides are not hardy and in a greenhouse, home or polly tunnel are magnets for greenfly, white fly, scale insect and red spider mite.

    I'd tidy up the tips now and wait for new growth to show; when the season warms up a bit then do a final cut back to where you can see it developing new shoots.


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    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,072 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Brilliant.

    I've done a basic run over as I would a fruit tree, i.e. removing rubbing branches and dead wood, but less aggressively as there won't be fruit to carry.

    Will see how it looks in May.


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