Get your garden out

[foxfish]

Here is one I collected around 30 years ago, it was grown in a basket tray for around 10 years then into progressively smaller pots, I might put it in its final pot next year.

 

[foxfish]

And a Myrtle that has been trained in the ground and just recently planted in a big pot, it was over 7’ tall last week.

 

[Bryce]

I’m jealous of you guys and the beautiful gardens you have. Here in the desert in Phoenix it’s to hot for most gardens. But here’s what I have. Not much!!! Lol

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Here in the desert in Phoenix it’s to hot for most gardens. But here’s what I have.

Minimalist, Aloe, Lantana camara & Washingtonia filifera?.

cheers Darrel

 

[Bryce]

Dang you nailed it!!!

 

[Thomas Cranham]

I love gardening and have transformed my front and back gardens from just lawn into my oasis in the 4 years I've had the house. I have flowers somewhere 12 months of the year, have a wide variety of annuals, biennial, perennials, shrubs and trees. Mainly I garden for the wildlife (I have a wife variety of birds visit, frogs, and hedgehogs too) and for growing fruit. I've got 9 different apple trees

 

[foxfish]

Bonsai trees can be brought on quite quickly if you start them off in the ground and do what is called a trunk chop.
I grew this Beach for 7 years in my garden and then chopped if off about one quarter way up.
It was then kept in a basket tray while a new leader was allowed to grow from the top, about 5 years.
I put it in its final pot around 5 years back and the original cuts are now 3/4 healed over. Probably needs another 5 years to completely heal

 

[foxfish]

I made a garden sculpture from a load of apple tree cuttings, a friend asked me to try a make it look like a French Bulldog..
Sarah started a facebook page for kids to give it a name with a small prize, we had over one hundred names put forward “Dozer” won!
I was never very good at school but even as a child I could shape a piece of clay into an animal or something, it was really fun for me and took my mind off all the worlds issues... for a few days anyway.

 

[Guest]

That's truly awesome 😎
Ironically, schools aren't always particularly enlightened places...

 

[foxfish]

If anyone is into bonsai you may well of heard of Peter Chan, he is so unassuming and offers so freely, his amazing wealth of knowledge with a very extensive youtube library, books and face to face if you visit his premises.
It astounds me that people criticise him, his work, his methods and abilities are regularly bad mouthed of various forums but honestly I just love him, I love his videos, his passion is so obvious and his overall success speaks for its self.
He has loads of vides, some short some long, here is a 30 min tour of his bonsai centre .....

 

[PARAGUAY]

This plant grows nice in spring come summer it suffers fungal like problems any ideas without cures that kill beneficial wil dlife

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Spirea japonica "Firelight"?

suffers fungal like problems any ideas without cures that kill beneficial wildlife

There aren't really any fungicides that are safe and effective. Spirea spp. don't tend to get much wrong with them.

These yellow ones suffer from leaf scorch if they get too much sun?

cheers Darrel

 

[PARAGUAY]

Thanks Darrell. Ones in the ground the other in a pot. So I will move the pot into a area what gets less direct sun. It grows well this time of year only to look worse for wear in late summer. I had read insufficient watering early in the season but it also affect the one in ground so I discounted that. Spirea that's it I thought but wasnt sure

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
A "lockdown" one from yesterday.

cheers Darrel

 

[foxfish]

While out driving yesterday we saw this large pot plant on the side of a road with a “ free to take away” sign on it!
Luckily we were in my van so between me and the misses we got it in the back.
It did have a lot more dead wood and brown leaves that I have cut away and I believe the colour rendition is misleading and very pale.
The thing looks quite old with a mature trunk structure but is amazingly root bound!
I will re pot it as soon as I can get some cat titter but the garden centres are closed at the moment.
I think it might have been kept in the dark for some time but there are some new leaves appearing so I am confident I can restore it but I am not sure what it actually is?

 

[Guest]

Nice find and project, looks like it'll do okay 🙂

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

but I am not sure what it actually is?

My first thought was <"Cherry Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus)">, but that would be a strange thing to have in a pot.

cheers Darrel

 

[zozo]

Hi all, My first thought was <"Cherry Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus)">, but that would be a strange thing to have in a pot.

cheers Darrel

That Prunus stands in our parents' house garden, as a massive 40-year-old shrub. I gave it a trim last summer. This one looks indeed very much alike, but what stands out to me it's missing the typical prunus smooth freckled bark..

The bark of the Prunus laurocerasus has this texture. Or its the resolution of the picture throwing me off.

 

[foxfish]

I don’t think there is any soil left in the pot, it is just a mass of roots!
I don’t really want to feed it at the moment but I have a feeling a bit of nitrogen and sun will turn the leaves a dark green.
The trunk does not have a rough bark but is not smooth like a camellia or magnolia, sort of in between!
I suspect it will be a flowering shrub or tree.
I want to get it out that pot, cut the root ball in half and comb out the upper roots, then plant it in a slightly bigger pot with a very free draining mix of cat litter chopped sphagnum moss and a bit of garden soil.
It might be a late summer flower but we probably won’t see any until next year.

 

[foxfish]

Rhododendron maybe?