Content
- Cut musk mallow correctly
- The right time to cut musk mallows
- Cut back only woody plants
- Stimulate second flowering with pruning
- Mallow flowers are edible
- Tips
Through a pruning the musk mallow can be stimulated to a second flowering
Cut musk mallow correctly
The musk-mallow is a perennial species of mallow that you should occasionally cut back. The perennials can become stronger and a second flowering is also possible. What you should consider when cutting musk mallows.
The right time to cut musk mallows
To get musk mallows into shape, cut them back one third in autumn.
However, if there is a very cold and hard winter in the house, move the pruning better on the spring. The leaves hanging on the bush provide good protection against frost.
Cut back only woody plants
Older musk mallows are lignified to the stems. These specimens you should quietly shorten in the fall. This stimulates the growth of new shoots and strengthens the plant as a whole. In this way you can significantly extend the lifetime of this mallow species.
By strengthening the new shoots, the musk mallow becomes more robust overall. She hardly needs any winter protection in winter.
In young plants, whose shoots are not yet lignified, you must go to more cautious. Only cut the upper shoot tips here.
Stimulate second flowering with pruning
A second flowering of musk mallow can be achieved by cutting the inflorescences immediately after flowering. The flowers are cut and the stems below it, so that the plant is brought into shape at the same time.
At favorable temperatures and an early first flowering, the plant repeats in the fall and brings forth new flowers.
By removing the flowers, the musk mallow can not form seeds from which you can grow new plants. If sowing is planned, you will have to leave some flowers.
Mallow flowers are edible
Mallow flowers you can not only eat, but also make a delicious Malventee. But cut the flowers while they are fully flowering. Salads and cold plates can also be decorated with the flowers.
Tips
Annual moths sow themselves every year. You do not need care. A pruning can be worthwhile, however, also in the wild form, if you want to stimulate the flower to a second flowering.