SO, HOW DO YOU GET RID OF THOSE LONG SHOOTS? Well, you wait, maybe a
couple of years. Eventually the plant sorts itself out. The
only abelias I know that don't have any of those long, upshots are one's
that nobody's been trying to keep small. One, in particular, that I
have finally tamed with some judicious thinning and waiting, is currently
seven feet tall. It looks great all the time and now needs very
little pruning. You could never convince me to try to shorten it.
I'm not looking for trouble. There you see, I am telling people things
they don't want to hear again.
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