Late Summer Revival?

Here in NH summer is starting to come to a close. The ground planted flowers are doing great (well, with exception of the honeysuckle fiasco) - however the potted ones are starting to get leggy and tired.

I mostly have petunias, alyssum and some small pansies (Johnny Jump-Ups?)

Would it do any good to give them (esp the petunias) a good pruning? If so, how far back should I cut them? I'm scared to just start hacking branches off.

 

Sounds like we are in the same boat! This weekend I plan to cut back my petunias, Shasta daisies and pansys so they can do their thing in the fall!
It will take the petunias only a week or two to start blooming again (I think) :-o Hopefully it will cool down a bit...

 

This is a link on how you can propagate what you cut off.

http://mytutorlist.blogspot.com/2010/07 ... tings.html

Don

 

I cut my petunias back to about 1/3 of the height. They have already bloomed again!

 

I will have to do that. The rain has broken a lot of the stems anyway. And now something is munching on the flowers.

Time for a good whacking! =)