How to Prune Evergreen Magnolias - Part 2

g'day welcome to i cultivate my name's steve about seven months ago we gave this magnolia here a really hard prune and at the time some people can be a little bit critical about the harshness of the prune but i thought that now was an opportune time to actually bring you back to the plant and you can see the actual outcome of that pruning [Music] so you can see here this is where the pruning about seven months ago occurred and you can see where the new growth has actually taken off from just below the pruned um position and the amount of growth that has occurred in this seven months has been absolutely phenomenal but now what i need to do is to bring it back a little bit because again it's covering up the windows but this time i'm going to be able to provide a little bit of shape to the plant something that was a bit more difficult last time given the severity of the pruning that we had to do so this level here is roughly the height that i would like this plant to be but that's at the apex of the plant so i'm going to start in the center and remove the center growth back down to what the maximum height will be once i've got that center growth removed what i will then do is i'll focus on providing the type of shape to the plant that will provide it with healthy growth over the months to come so now i'll start removing some of those lateral growths just to provide that shape and form to the tree that i would like to see this type of shape and form that i think is probably more traditional with a magnolia pruning but ultimately something that's going to provide the type of shape the type of look to the plant that we would actually like so you can see now that we've trimmed out that tall growth and some of the lateral growth of this magnolia that we've now achieved a shape that for me at least fits in more with this particular space and we're going to have to come back over the coming months and give it a little trim up from time to time also now that will have an impact on the flowering i guess of this particular one but from my perspective that's okay because in this location here for us it's more about the foliage than it is the flower now i hope you've enjoyed this video can i ask you please to go down to the thumbs up and give us a thumbs up subscribe to this channel and go to our website icultivate.net and become a member of the community thanks for watching [Music]