bwaynef

I pulled up 4-5 of these from my landscape about early-mid may. I have 2.5 of them right now. (2 in pots, and one left under my bonsai table in a hole, fending for itself...) I dug,torqued,cut, and pulled them up. I did manage to get plenty of their roots, though I took no care to really preserve them. I cut them down by at least 80%. On the first one I got buds within a week, and leaves within 2-3. On the second it took about 2 weeks to get new buds, but I'd left a few leaves on it. On the last it took about 3 weeks but I removed all its foliage, have yet to really water it or pot it, or put it in a proper hole. These were all dug about a week after each other (so it was getting progressively warmer for each of these.)

All that to say that these things should bounce back if they were healthy. I'd probably not remove anything else from then. Hopefully in the next weeks you'll start to see those purple buds start pushing. Even if you don't, I probably wouldn't count these out until after cool weather starts and you see nothing before then.

Good luck,
WF

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