Your patience is admirable.
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| Author: | EscMode [ 12 Jun 2015, 00:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Group Plantings with Saplings? |
Hey guys, I've just ordered 6 small Silver Birch saplings: Attachment: $_57_2.jpg I'd like to create a group planting with 5 of them. My question... is it better to develop these in individual pots until the trunk diameter is about right... or can this be done as a group planting, even at this early stage of their growth? I'd probably put them in a large pond basket or maybe even this: Attachment: $T2eC16JHJIQE9qUHrWnMBQc+1R3vV!~~60_57.JPG (I don't have any garden to plant them in btw, I have a concrete courtyard) |
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| Author: | stymie [ 12 Jun 2015, 10:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Group Plantings with Saplings? |
Group plantings look best in odd numbers, preferably with trees of different sizes and ages. The suggested containers for growing on are fine in the absence of a garden but don't be tempted to take them inside at all. I would grow five together and keep the sixth planted separately as a reserve for any unfortunate loss. |
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| Author: | Sven [ 12 Jun 2015, 17:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Group Plantings with Saplings? |
Nice; I love birch. Where are your saplings from? Good luck. I have been thinking of getting some bare-root saplings this winter, but it would be good to get something going sooner... |
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| Author: | EscMode [ 12 Jun 2015, 18:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Group Plantings with Saplings? |
Off E-bay. lol But only £9. I'll let you know their condition when they arrive. I'm thinking now that I might plant these individually, in pond baskets of ( of varying sizes to encourage different rate-of-growth) for 2-3 of years first. What do you's all think? |
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| Author: | Paul B [Swindon] [ 12 Jun 2015, 18:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Group Plantings with Saplings? |
Good idea to bring them on individually, then in 3/4 years they can be partly trained and ready for a forest |
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| Author: | stymie [ 12 Jun 2015, 19:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Group Plantings with Saplings? |
Your patience is admirable.
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| Author: | Bill [ 12 Jun 2015, 21:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Group Plantings with Saplings? |
Sven wrote: Nice; I love birch. Where are your saplings from? Good luck. I have been thinking of getting some bare-root saplings this winter, but it would be good to get something going sooner... try some cuttings. they don't root too easy as far as i have seen, but if you try many you should get some successes |
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| Author: | EscMode [ 12 Jun 2015, 21:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Group Plantings with Saplings? |
stymie wrote: Your patience is admirable. Thanks Stymie, but at this point my well-intended patience is nothing more than an abstract concept. Remains to be seen if I can actually wait 3 years!! heh-he. |
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