These bushes are beautifully pruned & I really hope you don't mind if I copy the idea - just what I need in my new border.
Do you know what your shrubs are?
Very best of luck & hope you manage to save them. Assuming you do - it might be worth investing in some garden fleece in case we have another harsh winter this year.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
It has only happened in the last month, not caused over the winter, possible a stong cold wind or a late frost on new growth.
Not sure which type, were bought as small trees, original grown as pots, growth is all on ends of brances, not flat grown like other we have. They were moved into a bed after 15 years. Then moved to a back lane, where they were uprooted by passing drunks. It was at this point we saw some in a garden centre, retrieved both which had been uprooted and dumped over a wall.
I carefully cut out small side branches to leave a structure, then shapped the clouds. We have had lots of fun, very attached to them now.
The cold wind can cause real problems. I'm in central Scotland Sarah and get the westerly winds which can just annihilate lots of stuff. Your other one looks terrific.No reason why you can't give it a bit of time when it has sentimental value so fingers crossed that you can salvage it but it looks beyond help to me. Is it in a different location to the healthy one?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My conifers have brown patches here and there on the hedging leylandi , weve had them for 20 years, and we were getting ivy from our riverside strangling them, we pulled it all out before it caused damage, but my husband just trimmed them theyre annual cut and theres more brown patches than usual, ive been out sprayingbthem just now with the bug gun, and I got my hubby to feed them with sequesered Iron sachets just one sachet to help in at their trunks, and im going to buy some of the proper insecticide for it, next week, can you give me anyntips what to do about these brown patches love janicexxxxxxx
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These bushes are beautifully pruned & I really hope you don't mind if I copy the idea - just what I need in my new border.
Do you know what your shrubs are?
Very best of luck & hope you manage to save them. Assuming you do - it might be worth investing in some garden fleece in case we have another harsh winter this year.
It has only happened in the last month, not caused over the winter, possible a stong cold wind or a late frost on new growth.
Not sure which type, were bought as small trees, original grown as pots, growth is all on ends of brances, not flat grown like other we have. They were moved into a bed after 15 years. Then moved to a back lane, where they were uprooted by passing drunks. It was at this point we saw some in a garden centre, retrieved both which had been uprooted and dumped over a wall.
I carefully cut out small side branches to leave a structure, then shapped the clouds. We have had lots of fun, very attached to them now.
Another shaped shrub, which was getting too big a pieris fire flame.
The cold wind can cause real problems. I'm in central Scotland Sarah and get the westerly winds which can just annihilate lots of stuff. Your other one looks terrific.No reason why you can't give it a bit of time when it has sentimental value so fingers crossed that you can salvage it but it looks beyond help to me. Is it in a different location to the healthy one?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They are next to each other. But different trees.
The bonsais came next.... We have a selection of native trees, no doubt not correctly adjusted for true bonsai followers but we have lots of fun.
Having lots of fun is what counts Sarah. Most important
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes, fun, fresh air and seeing things grow
My conifers have brown patches here and there on the hedging leylandi , weve had them for 20 years, and we were getting ivy from our riverside strangling them, we pulled it all out before it caused damage, but my husband just trimmed them theyre annual cut and theres more brown patches than usual, ive been out sprayingbthem just now with the bug gun, and I got my hubby to feed them with sequesered Iron sachets just one sachet to help in at their trunks, and im going to buy some of the proper insecticide for it, next week, can you give me anyntips what to do about these brown patches love janicexxxxxxx