Any advice on planting density will be well received. I can't find any pictures of wild pear planted as a hedge, only lots of sellers.
Some pears look to be a bit leggy, but I guess with hedge trimming/pruning this won't be so much an issue. I hope it provides enough of a screen even if not an opaque one.
Is that wild pear as in Pyrus communis? If you cat it back it shoots out all over. Would make a great hedge, and a tall one if you want that. Prickly as well, quite vicious when work needs to be done. I wouldn't be without it though.
Not sure how far apart mine are, 2ft maybe a bit more.
Sold as Pyrus Communis, yes. (It seems wild pears come by a few names! Pyrus Pyraster?) Semi-spiky, that sounds about right. Have you a picture @nutcutlet? Are yours hedged?
3 of mine are sort of hedged in that they've be cut back on the side, but not the top.
The other one is a tree but with bits sticking out all over the trunk. I'll see if I can find pics. Otherwise I'll go and take some when the rain stops
Love the idea of @Tetley, tending to cuttings and turning them into full specimens. You think it's not possible and way off into the future. A few years back I took a small cutting from a New Zealand privet (Grisilinea), and it's now planted out and doing well as a shrub. I'd bought a 2ft plant also around the same time, and there isn't that much in them now. So it does suggest that if you can, do. Even if you pass clones on to strangers, friends and family.
Working now. This is the tree, right in the middle behind me and my barrow. Not a good pic but all I can find. Yew to the left, never been cut.
The first in line is a wild service tree, then 3 or 4 pears, then an ash. I think most of the blossom in the pic is from the first. The pear blossoms well but I can't find a photo
No, not the sedge, It's a clump of Leucojum vernum, somewhat collapsed. I'm excavating the former compost heap. Things grow nicely from that and I can rescue them later
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Any advice on planting density will be well received. I can't find any pictures of wild pear planted as a hedge, only lots of sellers.
Some pears look to be a bit leggy, but I guess with hedge trimming/pruning this won't be so much an issue. I hope it provides enough of a screen even if not an opaque one.
Is that wild pear as in Pyrus communis? If you cat it back it shoots out all over. Would make a great hedge, and a tall one if you want that. Prickly as well, quite vicious when work needs to be done. I wouldn't be without it though.
Not sure how far apart mine are, 2ft maybe a bit more.
The pears are tiny
Blossom lovely.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Sold as Pyrus Communis, yes. (It seems wild pears come by a few names! Pyrus Pyraster?) Semi-spiky, that sounds about right. Have you a picture @nutcutlet? Are yours hedged?
3 of mine are sort of hedged in that they've be cut back on the side, but not the top.
The other one is a tree but with bits sticking out all over the trunk. I'll see if I can find pics. Otherwise I'll go and take some when the rain stops
In the sticks near Peterborough
I bought Yew too, just to make my life difficult, for another immanent hedgerow planting, I better get in the garden...
Love the idea of @Tetley, tending to cuttings and turning them into full specimens. You think it's not possible and way off into the future. A few years back I took a small cutting from a New Zealand privet (Grisilinea), and it's now planted out and doing well as a shrub. I'd bought a 2ft plant also around the same time, and there isn't that much in them now. So it does suggest that if you can, do. Even if you pass clones on to strangers, friends and family.
I've found 3 pics Wayside but right now can't upload them '503 service unavailable'
I'll have ago later
In the sticks near Peterborough
Working now. This is the tree, right in the middle behind me and my barrow. Not a good pic but all I can find. Yew to the left, never been cut.
The first in line is a wild service tree, then 3 or 4 pears, then an ash. I think most of the blossom in the pic is from the first. The pear blossoms well but I can't find a photo
Ash trunk in the foreground
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Hi Tetley
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No, not the sedge, It's a clump of Leucojum vernum, somewhat collapsed. I'm excavating the former compost heap. Things grow nicely from that and I can rescue them later
In the sticks near Peterborough
re the middle pic, I've been and looked. The blossom is all Pryus, It's cut back on the sides so we can get by but branches are overhead
In the sticks near Peterborough