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Author:  Brendan [ 23 Aug 2018, 10:31 ]
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Love free stuff. Nice one to play with.
Author:  Gary Jones [ 23 Aug 2018, 15:52 ]
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Nice one Richard. Have fun with this. I'm glad one survived.

I thought Penny's comment on the branch proportions is interesting. Recently in club, Will Baddeley made the same comment on a privet where I thought the branches were OK. Perhaps we've all got accustomed to the thinner branches that have become quite common. (Probably because we're not spending enough time building our primary branches).
Author:  richardb [ 23 Aug 2018, 18:26 ]
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Yes its a difficult one Gary. On the photo there is a branch on the left and you can see where I shortened this earlier in the year and I now have 2 shoots. if I let the 2 shoots grow out I would expect to get more thickening than with just the one shoot. Although privet should easily bud back if the branches are cut back some trees are not as forthcoming.
Author:  richardb [ 19 Aug 2019, 09:33 ]
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I trimmed this privet back at the end of last year and started on a bit of carving.
Image20181213_111238 by richard borrell, on Flickr
It grew out really well through the year and was trimmed through the year so at the weekend i have cleaned up the branches and wired into position. The branches are becoming relatively thick so it needed to be done to get the movement i want without causing damage.
Imageaug 19 by richard borrell, on Flickr
Imageaug19 by richard borrell, on Flickr
I have not touched the roots or lifted the tree out of the pot this year, I will lift in spring and hopefully find some decent finer roots as originally it had nothing. I can then start to get the pot down to a good size.
Author:  Sizzla [ 19 Aug 2019, 10:10 ]
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Very nice, I like what you've done.
Author:  Keith Hansell [ 19 Aug 2019, 13:06 ]
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What did you treat the wood with?

My large privets took a couple of years before they started throwing out fine roots.
Author:  richardb [ 19 Aug 2019, 14:45 ]
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I only treated the exposed wood with deadwood preserver. This area was damaged when the builder ripped it out of my nieces garden and then I did a bit of carving. Hopefully because it put on good growth this year should also have grown roots but will wait till spring to find out
Author:  johnbaz [ 19 Aug 2019, 16:40 ]
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Looking good!

Our neighbour wanted to rip the old line of privet up that is between our driveways, As it's my border (And she being a soliocitor!) She asked my permission, I told it was fine, Whatever she wanted to do was ok with me, Didn't realise she'd get on with it so quickly as when I got home from work the next day, It was gone and new stuff put in!! :1crybaby:

I have a little privet that I bought from Markham Grange Last year, Actually bought it from a pal who was standing!!

Image

It's starting to fill out a little now!

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John :201thumbup:
Author:  Keith Hansell [ 19 Aug 2019, 16:41 ]
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richardb wrote:
I only treated the exposed wood with deadwood preserver. This area was damaged when the builder ripped it out of my nieces garden and then I did a bit of carving. Hopefully because it put on good growth this year should also have grown roots but will wait till spring to find out


I treated the deadwood on my privets with preserver I bought a couple of years ago from Kiazan. Like yours it gives a dark tone which is good against the light wood.
Author:  richardb [ 06 Apr 2020, 13:48 ]
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Decided the time was right to see what roots this piece of privet had grown. i wanted to get it down into a smaller pot, it's been in a 10 inch deep plastic pot since i first planted it a couple of years ago.
i only had a plastic training pot of the right size to hand so will have to find a suitable pot once we get back to being able to visit a show.
There was a big chunk of solid wood underground and most of the roots were coming out at ground level so managed remove about 50% of the underground wood .
Image20200406_111841 by richard borrell, on Flickr
Image20200406_113044 by richard borrell, on Flickr
Image20200406_114302 by richard borrell, on Flickr
Image20200406_120150 by richard borrell, on Flickr
Image20200406_120221 by richard borrell, on Flickr
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