Lazy Grange Bay 3...a new start
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Close!, but no they are schleich trees
They make very nice sheep,horses,cows ect plus knights,dragons, dinosaur ect
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I visited a garden near Falkirk last year, the home owner had been a horticulturalist before retirement, and his railway was definitely one where the railway was running through the scenery, one of the things he told me was the way to control a live plant is through trimming, he had one tree which had been in the ground around 15 years but no taller than 2m high, and bush type plants of the type I'd normally expect to see on property boundary's no more than 300mm high.
His advice was simple, don't be afraid of the plant, so long as you don't trim during very hot or frosty weather, and don't damage the roots, any plant should be able to survive a heavy trim, the worst that can happen is it takes a season for it to get back to looking like itself again.
His advice was simple, don't be afraid of the plant, so long as you don't trim during very hot or frosty weather, and don't damage the roots, any plant should be able to survive a heavy trim, the worst that can happen is it takes a season for it to get back to looking like itself again.
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They are difficult to get, and regularly go for in excess of £60 second hand via ebay, amazon ect
I've found that the harder the trim, the quicker it grows back. Sometimes it's better to leave it
Depends on the plant, many shrubs will bounce back very fast. I had a couple of flowering cherries in my garden that I quite fancy pollarded. First year I did it they grew 6 feet branches in as many weeks, got a man with a chain saw to see to them and dug the rootballs out meself. Mist of the conifers I have take a binannual trim if I can be bothered, if I don’t they get a serious hack. David’s advice is sound.
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If you bonsai a tree or shrub to stunt it's growth, you need to root trim every couple of years, top pruning alone is not sufficient, unless you can constrict the roots.
I'm still wondering how those railings survived WW2 - but the front paths are definitely 'of the time'
Jimmy as a bonsai expert is correct.
A few years back in the US Garden Railway Mag there was an article about sort of bonsai-ing trees for garden railways. The way suggested was to have 2 pots of the next size apart, tree in smaller one with barrier in the bottom of the pot then plant with the smaller pot in the larger one. Theory was you could remove the plant being contained in its pot to root trim and replant. Worked a treat for me till I got out of regular trimming and the roots escaped. Then last year they all croaked in the hot summer due to no watering. Sadly bonsai and me not the best of friends, they do rely on you to look after them and holidays do not help.
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Not every railing was cut down. I did ponder that. , after meny meny brews ..I decided that lazygrangebay, council re fitted railings after the war ..tuff 1 I know, but it looks better with..I'm still wondering how those railings survived WW2 - but the front paths are definitely 'of the time'
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