I spent Friday morning digging holes and planting forty Griselinia hedge plants I grew last year from cuttings for a friend:
The best thing about planting the hedge is that I was able to bring the plant pots home. I will spend a few hours soon filling them and making more cuttings.
It's good to have a propagating hobby which eventually financially rewards.
Do you grow hedging or plants for an hobby?
Every day I pass a house that is surrounded by a hedge, grown from beech saplings collected from a local park. It's huge, and it must have saved the owner a fortune.
ReplyDeleteI should perhaps explain, that they were self seeded saplings, which would have been cleared away - they didn't steal planted ones :)
ReplyDeleteYes Jules hedging need not cost you money if you are prepared to forage or take cuttings and grow them.
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ReplyDeleteI saw a lot of Griselinia on Lewis..where it is pruned and clipped it does make a good wind and salt resistant hedge, but needs keeping an eye on...only difficult if you let it go for a bit
Yes GZ it is very popular in sea side areas like here. It's also called New Zealand Privet from where it originates. I have been taking Hypericum cuttings. I like it's yellow flowers in summer. They are both very easy to propagate.
ReplyDeleteNot exactly cuttings but we were given a black bamboo many years ago in a pot. It has been split once when it got too big for its pot and we are going to split it again this weekend to plant out in a big gap in the garden border. It should help to screen us from the nosey neighbours.
ReplyDeleteBamboo is very invasive and it's best grown in large pots JayCee. It's very expensive. I have several bamboo plants that I have tried to sell at car boot sales but no takers so far. It's very good for privacy and grows to it's full height in one season.
ReplyDeleteMy rocket seeds are showing! So happy to see the wee green plants showing. Nothing much else going on here
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see vegetables germinating LA. We are harvesting mainly leeks and swedes at the moment.
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