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.
ReplyDeleteYes, I used to....
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.
ReplyDeleteYou put in a good shift there Dave and the concrete panels should shelter the baby hedge, helping it to grow. In response to your hobby question, I prefer skateboarding and tagging my street name with spray cans. It's "GRUMPY53".
ReplyDeleteYou are the Sheffield Banksy YP. It's pleasing to plant an hedge you have grown from cuttings.
DeleteI'm just starting my journey, I have cuttings I hope to make a small hedge. I am also separating other small shrubs, it's fun and hopefully I get more free plants.
ReplyDeleteI make new plants every week Marlene. You will soon have hundreds like me.
ReplyDeleteI hope that you will take a picture of that hedge, every month, so that we can see its progress from start to finish. No hedging plants for us, but Tim did cut a lilac bush back to the root and dig it up, not realizing what it was. We put it into a bucket and hauled it to the new house and planted it behind the house...and promptly forgot about it. Later in the fall, I planted three shrubs that I'd gotten over the summer at various sales at the garden shop, none over $5. A forsythia, another lilac and a hibiscus. I wondered about that little scrap of a plant Tim had dug up and walked back to check on it. The thing was lush and covered in leaves. That little miracle really impressed the heck out of me.
ReplyDeleteThanks Debby. Cutting back foliage often rejuvenates and puts new life back into a plant. Dogwoods love being cut back to the ground in Spring.
ReplyDeleteMy hobby is pruning the neighbour's overgrown hedge.
ReplyDeleteWe have a local farmer cut our hedge - what's nice is he is akin to nature so knows exactly the right time to cut. We are moving to a house without a front hedge - just a lawan which hubby will be out cutting - but alas no sit on mower anymore!
DeleteHi Mrs Nesbitt. I covered one of lawns with a plastic tarp and use it for a plant nursery.
DeleteI am sure it is Tasker.
ReplyDeleteWe are moving house - probably January and I am really looking forward to watching the garden for a year and seeing what the seasons have in store - during that time I'll be planning! Any tips always welcome.
ReplyDeleteI would go for an hedge that flowers like Rugosa or Hypericum. Hedges are suitable for their soil conditions. Willow and Dogwood love wet areas for example.
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