I have a row of old variety Gardenia bushes that have gotten quite tall and lanky, and when it rains, their limbs droop very badly. I want to cut them back. My bushes go back to a bush my mother had planted in her yard when I was a young girl, and I am now 70 years old. She never trimmed or cut back her bush. You told how to trim or cut back Gardenia's, but you did not say when to trim or cut them back. I know you don't do it in the spring before they bloom because you would lose the blossoms, but do you cut them back shortly after they bloom, or do you wait until fall to do it?
I have a row of old variety Gardenia bushes that have gotten quite tall and lanky, and when it rains, their limbs droop very badly. I want to cut them back. My bushes go back to a bush my mother had planted in her yard when I was a young girl, and I am now 70 years old. She never trimmed or cut back her bush. You told how to trim or cut back Gardenia's, but you did not say when to trim or cut them back. I know you don't do it in the spring before they bloom because you would lose the blossoms, but do you cut them back shortly after they bloom, or do you wait until fall to do it?