Trees
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I have used Lonicera, Box, Hawthorn various globe varieties for my line. All look good with some judicious pruning. I have no idea of the real art of Bonsai, but that is what I try to achieve.
Cynos
Cynos
<p>I use a range of dwarf conifers but also box which I keep pruned to something like a scale size. The beauty of box is that it is really easy to propagate. Each time I prune I shove a few off-cuts into the ground and leave them. I reckon on round about 90% strike rate. </p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://riksrailway.blogspot.com/2008/03/progress-report-11.html"><img width="240" height="320" border="0" alt="Box tree pruned to scale" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lFmnuaQ3ubw/R--d6b4z8yI/AAAAAAAAAOw/KavzZA0_ccY/s320/IMG_0831.jpg" /></a>
</p><p>In my garden, plants have to thrive on neglect!</p><p> </p><p>Rik
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</p><p>In my garden, plants have to thrive on neglect!</p><p> </p><p>Rik
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Hi, I have Leylandi and Hebe. What I did find was that if I left them in the plant pots, growth would be restricted which has proved to be the case - although they still managed 1ft per year! Pruning is the answer as you do see many garden hedges under control. An unrestricted tree has grown to 7ft before I stopped its vertical growth. I have one very slow-growing one which is dark green and looks as though its frosted with icing sugar! This has managed about 1 inch per year. Sorry I don't know the names of these varieties - the only connection with green fingers is when I get green paint on them!
Mick
Mick
Arh, Ric what you call Box, is what I call Lonicera var Baggesons Gold. They do make good trees though eh?
Cynos
Cynos
Well there you go. Always learn something on this forum. Whatever it's called, it's good stuff.
The original plants were given to me by my late dad about 27 years ago. He'd propagated them (knowing him it will have been from a cutting he'd made from a bush in a municipal garden somewhere). He called them box, I've never thought to question it (Dad's know everything - maybe someone should tell my daughter that!).
Rik
<p>This is one of my favourites. Santolina - aka Lavendar Cotton. It will survive a few years in our climate (Zone 4+)</p><p> </p>
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I have lots of trees of various sizes but I like the false Cyprus and Japenese Maples best............Mind you so do the dogs...................
Cheers PaulStainzmeister - 2/11/2009 7:43 PM
Richie - 2/11/2009 7:32 PM
Have shaped several of my conifers and acers on my line
A credit to you Richie, they look great
Will try and do some close up shots at the weekend 
It's a replacement for the 14 year old one the dog's ate...........No thats right they ate it...........
We also have a small wood on the hill which are all dwarf conifers but even they will grow too big eventually...........
This is one of my favourites at the moment as it's all gnarly and moss covered! it's a Yatsubusa Elm and very slow growing......As opposed to a hyabusa I suppose (small bike joke)...............
As you can see I likes me tree's and they really don't need a lot of expert type care, believe me if it will die I can kill it!! next time your at the nursury or even the supermarket take a look at the small plant section there's always something to catch the eye..................
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</p><p>There's a good article in the current issue of Garden Railways on how to prune these to keep them in scale. Maybe you can train your dogs to selectively chew them.
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<p> </p><p>And of course every tree that gets TOO big</p><p>thats too big to transplant</p><p> </p><p>they do make very realistic tree stumps 
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