Podocarpus Icee Blue Pruning
Left unpruned you can expect slow growth 15 25 ft.
Podocarpus icee blue pruning. 2 remove dead or broken branches of young podocarpus whenever you notice the damage. One of the most beautiful and decorative pyramidal conifers for the south. I wanted an upright tree that looked dynamite. In los angeles the most distinctive tree for container growing is icee blue yellow wood podocarpus elongatus monmal.
I recently bought 2 icee blue podocarpus grown by monrovia and wanted to ask a few questions. Limit your pruning to identified goals. The podocarpus icee blue is slow growing to 15 25 feet and 15 25 wide if you don t prune it. The plant s energy will go into renewal rather than elongation of the branches.
An excellent specimen lawn or screen tree. Loosely wire branches to guide growth. I have tall house edges i want to soften and necessary drain spouts that i want to hide. Tall by 15 25 ft.
The first podocarpus tree with distinctive blue foliage. If you grow podocarpus as bonsai you should see 2 to 4 inches of new growth each spring. New growth emerges lime gray blue then matures to a cool gray blue green. It is shown off to excellent effect at the entrance to descanso gardens.
Prune podocarpus bonsai when it is actively growing. Icee blue yellow wood is sensitive to direct los angeles sun. With evergreens you cannot prune for the fun of it.