Mercury News: Cut flowers, branches of flowering shrubs to bring spring indoors Many gardeners are busy pruning shrubs to remove winter damage, control the size, or provide a bit of shaping before the season is well under way. Save some of the branches or cut a few from spring ... Chicago Tribune: When forcing cut branches to flower, here’s how long it takes to see blooms I have been pruning in my garden and wonder if I can bring in some branches and get them to flower.

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If so, how should I proceed? Spring-flowering trees and shrubs such as lilacs and crabapples form ... When forcing cut branches to flower, here’s how long it takes to see blooms I was out in the garden pruning last Saturday and took the opportunity to save some magnolia branches with flower buds to bring inside. It’s a tree that I have not tried forcing branches from before, ...

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Houston Chronicle: Why does tree put leaves on one branch, flowers on another? Question: Each spring, my Texas mountain laurel seems to put new leaves only on selected branches (actually trunks), and put on seed pods on other trunks. It seems to be mutually exclusive: trunks ...