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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 8:41 pm    Post subject: burgeoning urban garden Reply with quote
this is about a 270 degree panorama of a garden i've been helping with, and unfortunately makes the planting look smaller and less verdant than it looks in reality - the other 90 degrees is missing as it's a work in progress patio area at the moment.



the plum tree (in front of the last fence panel on the left) is putting on a lot of bushiness up top, which seemed to start last year in reaction to a bad infestation of aphids which was hard to shift - should we cut the branches back in winter?
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Some nice curves there. Good cluster of trees in the corner. Birch or hawthorn? Ties on trees may possibly need to be raised and resecured as a few seem to have dropped. Don't know if you are a fan of phormiums but I would include a few myself.
On the plum, I may be corrected but I think the safest time for pruning the plum is summer to avoid silver leaf disease
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 9:39 am    Post subject: Re: burgeoning urban garden Reply with quote
medieval knievel wrote:


the plum tree (in front of the last fence panel on the left) is putting on a lot of bushiness up top, which seemed to start last year in reaction to a bad infestation of aphids which was hard to shift - should we cut the branches back in winter?


Article on the subject here medieval knievel....... How to prune a plum tree in Ireland.
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 11:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice garden and cool panorama. What did you use to do that, did you need a tripod?
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks good. I love the yellow plant on the middle left, any idea what it is. Seeing as other posters are making suggestions (hope you dont mind medieval knievel) I would include a few conifers. Not leylandiis of course. And some pyracanta for the fences. Smile
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
cooler wrote:
Good cluster of trees in the corner. Birch or hawthorn? Ties on trees may possibly need to be raised and resecured as a few seem to have dropped.

from left, the 'trees' are chilean potato plant, kilmarnock willow, plum, stella cherry, ceanothus (sp?), birch, birch, ceanothus, apple (cox's pippin, i think), berberis, apple (granny smith).

the photo is a stitched panorama using autostitch - basically, you take photos which overlap, and this software:
www.autostitch.net
will automatically stitch them together. no tripod required.
it obviously warps perspective - the garden is about 20 foot wide and 40 foot long, but the full 40 foot is not visible in the above.

i'll have to revert to my gardening partner for the name of the yellow flowering plant.
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
medieval knievel wrote:

from left, the 'trees' are chilean potato plant, kilmarnock willow, plum, stella cherry, ceanothus (sp?), birch, birch, ceanothus, apple (cox's pippin, i think), berberis, apple (granny smith).


Nice to see the integration of fruit trees into the overall layout.
Flower as well as fruit.

What area of help are you giving medieval knievel, design, plant choices, labour?
On the subject of helping with gardens an old gardener said to me once..... "If you have any part in the putting in of a garden, it will always be your garden. Especially when something goes wrong, then it will be said that it was your garden" Razz
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
a good bit of labour, but really a bit from each category - the owner (my girlfriend) has tastes for more herbaceous, cottagey things - so i don't think she'd be on for the conifer or phormium suggestions.

also - we deliberately put the ties on the trees low - i had understood that that was the correct way to do it, because you're trying to protect the roots, not the trunk?
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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also - we deliberately put the ties on the trees low - i had understood that that was the correct way to do it, because you're trying to protect the roots, not the trunk?


Ah I know where you are coming from, allowing the top of the tree to sway strengthening it as in the will but protecting the roots from disturbance. Thats usually done with shorter stakes with the ties high or else by driving the stakes at a 45 degree angle.
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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
mk,

thanks for the info on how you created the panorama. I did look close up and couldn't see the "photoshopped" join. I'll check out the link.
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