Richard Jauron.

The best time to rejuvenate large, overgrown shrubs is late winter or early spring (March or early April).

Not all shrubs respond well to rejuvenation pruning, but those that do are exactly the shrubs that tend to get badly out of control.

Heavy pruning in late winter or early spring will reduce or eliminate the flower display for 2 or 3 years. However, rejuvenation pruning will restore the health of the shrubs. Aug 05, For most shrubs, late winter or early spring is the best time to prune. The plants are still in full dormancy at this time but are just preparing to produce new growth. If your shrub is a spring-blooming variety, though, make sure to leave behind enough flower buds on the stems for a spring shrubpruning.barted Reading Time: 6 mins.

Apr 20, DO Prune Flowering Shrubs at the Right Time of Year Spring-flowering shrubs, such as lilac and forsythia, develop buds that will display the following year during the Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Oct 05, Badly overgrown shrubs respond well to pruning in late winter/early spring, pruning young palo verde trees before new leaves appear.

Managing large shrubs isn’t done overnight.

Instead, prune neglected, overgrown shrubs over three years. Each year, take out a third of the heaviest stems to start new growth shrubpruning.barted Reading Time: 2 mins. Apr 23, When pruning mature, overgrown shrubs, remove the thickest branches first.

Cut them back to the base of the shrub to promote new growth. Hand pruners are useful for smaller branches. Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Apr 15, Although bushes and shrubs can be cut back at almost any time during the year, there are better and worse times recommended for pruning. The best time to prune most bushes and shrubs is in late winter or early spring-usually during the later half of March or the beginning of April-before new growths have formed after the dormant period.