{"id":52592,"date":"2017-04-22T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ask-alys-why-did-my-pyracantha-fail-to-produce-berries\/"},"modified":"2017-04-22T17:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T10:02:38","slug":"ask-alys-why-did-my-pyracantha-fail-to-produce-berries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ask-alys-why-did-my-pyracantha-fail-to-produce-berries\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Alys: why did my pyracantha fail to produce berries?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOur gardening expert Alys Fowler has the answerFor the first time in 40 years, my two pyracantha bushes have produced no berries. Is there a reason for this? Can it be corrected?Did you prune them? A hard pruning\u00a0will mean few flowers the\u00a0following year, because pyracantha, aka firethorn, flower on\u00a0last year\u2019s growth. If you cut them back hard at the wrong time you can unwittingly remove all the flower buds.If you haven\u2019t been pruning them,\u00a0I can only think that there was poor pollination. If the spring was wet, cold or windy in the days the flowers appeared, then a lack of\u00a0pollinators would mean no berries later on. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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