people often ask a violent common law about Eris grass was the most puck president Clark is that old time doctors gave way new shoots plantings as a result separating that so because it blooms primarily on 2 & 3 year old pretty heavily matter of fact it's very important that we take off shoots the one-year-old shoots which will not be a bull two and three primarily we look at the bun you'll see that it's on in this case two-year-old steps emergency sloppy which are that's the easiest way down to the ground another member bring about guards hey they open market which I'm going to cut this little Branson me up to get rid of him basically Oh need a good offer those heavy 1 inch step one of the more important things to do the dead had any plan and the best time to deadhead his after the plant has been full but we're doing this all in one operation so we're going to remove all the dead flowers you can tell that's a flower that's a bunch of leaves but this could have been done and summer no harm done now since we're severely pruning this lilac anyway so what I will do is remove all of the dead flowers should be done after I control all the chrome this is as I said it could have been done in august or September my legs could be pruned in the wintertime actually the crude anytime but of course this time of the year we're going to be removing some of the flowers because this plaque was never proved maybe in the last five years and this happens to a lot of gardeners they see what just gets too big it's too wide they see that the energy is being dissipated on the blooms and of course it doesn't look that good we will do later on it's actually wraps in the fall it's create two or three plants from this bulla plant that we're looking at here and then we'll have a couple plants to give to my needs I think that wraps it up on how to prune your lilac syringa vulgaris