Hypericum winter pruning - maybe not quite yet?

 Back in January of this year, I wrote a brief article about pruning that most bomb-proof of what I call “builder shrubs”, the Hypericum - variously known as Rose of Sharon (which is pronounced Sha'ron, emphasis on the “ron”, as opposed to Sharrin-to-rhyme-with-Darren), St John's Wort, and so on.

One of my lovely Patrons asked me how it had flowered this year, after being chopped so brutally back in mid winter, so here's an update.

The previous article dealt with the harsh (but necessary) winter prune: this is the original shrub:

 

... which is how it looked last winter, before I took the secateurs to it.

Ten minutes later, this was all that was left:

 

 

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