Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: I did a \"Pieris Test\", 1 by AviInTheGarden

AviInTheGarden wrote:
So...in the Spring/Summer 2021-season, a 30-year old Pieris in our garden was thoroughly covered with white blooms. It didn\'t have even one single new leaf for the entire season. I wondered why. Well, at the end of the summer into fall, I cut away all of the remnants of the blooms that I was able to reach (which really was a big job). This is the result now in this 2022-Spring...you can see in the photo that where the \"dead\" blooms from last year weren\'t cut off, there are new white blooms and every where else where last year\'s dead blooms were cut off is a profusion of new leaf-growth.