[Misc] NSC - Plant a Tree!

[Deleted member 2719]

I've got a big Philadelphus (size is everything ) and the flowers do smell beautiful, but have only discovered recently that you have to leave it two years for it to flower.

I've had it in the garden for nearly twenty years, but it was getting ridiculously big, so I've 'trimmed' it the last couple of years (with a chainsaw) and got no flowers

It takes a long time to really learn this gardening lark doesn't it.

It will be fir to hard for yew, perhaps a sapling like you needs to bough out now?
A fell a with your timber brain is just deadwood.

 

[Jack Straw]

It will be fir to hard for yew, perhaps a sapling like you needs to bough out now?
A fell a with your timber brain is just deadwood.

I wondered how long it would be before someone rooted out the tree puns. Thanks Bud. Now leaf it!

 

[Deleted member 2719]

I wondered how long it would be before someone rooted out the tree puns. Thanks Bud. Now leaf it!

Who me!

Watford pines for me when I am spruced up, he can't wait to see my timber, and view my annual rings.

 

[Jack Straw]

This should be interesting. Channel 5 this evening, 8.00 pm.
https://www.channel5.com/show/chris-packham-plant-a-tree-to-save-the-world/

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

I'm in, my Father in Law grew two saplings from acorns when our boys were born, we've been meaning to take them out of the pot and into the garden, does that count?

 

[Jack Straw]

I'm in, my Father in Law grew two saplings from acorns when our boys were born, we've been meaning to take them out of the pot and into the garden, does that count?

Any tree counts, although you'll need a big garden, as from little acorns...

 

[symyjym]

This should be interesting. Channel 5 this evening, 8.00 pm.
https://www.channel5.com/show/chris-packham-plant-a-tree-to-save-the-world/

Yes it should. £1.50 donation per tree and he wants to raise a modest £150,000. Interesting to see what is really raised. It could be millions.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Any tree counts, although you'll need a big garden, as from little acorns...

Indeed and they're going down the bottom of the garden too, I think just one in our garden and one up in the woods.

 

[maffew]

If i buy a real Christmas tree can i plant that? Serious question thanks

 

[Jack Straw]

If i buy a real Christmas tree can i plant that? Serious question thanks

You can if it's pot-grown, and not a typical sawn-off one. Funny thing is is that I was going to suggest planting Christmas trees, on this thread.
They grow best on clay soils, but you can get away with it if the soil isn't too chalky.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/12899/Picea-abies/Details
Garden Centers will be stocking these now. Post a photo on here if you plant one.

 

[Creaky]

If i buy a real Christmas tree can i plant that? Serious question thanks

Yes you can but do be careful where you plant it - depending on the species they can grow very, very big!

We have a number in our garden, planted over the years, a couple of which are well over 40’ foot tall!

 

[Frankie]

Magnolia Tree duly Planted

 

[Jack Straw]

Magnolia Tree duly Planted

Excellent. Can you post a photo of it on here? What variety is it?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Chris Packham's programme on Ch5 this evening was asking for donations of £1.50 for each tree to plant 100K trees in the UK, so if you live in a flat, or your garden is too small, donate a tree.

 

[Frankie]

Excellent. Can you post a photo of it on here? What variety is it?

Yes will do tomorrow, its pink flowering will try to find planting label for type

It's a Stellata.

 

[Jack Straw]

Yes will do tomorrow, its pink flowering will try to find planting label for type

It's a Stellata.

Nice. Water it every week from April to the end of September for the first two years, rain or shine. Please post photos on this thread every now and then so we can watch progress.

 

[Jack Straw]

Chris Packham's programme on Ch5 this evening was asking for donations of £1.50 for each tree to plant 100K trees in the UK, so if you live in a flat, or your garden is too small, donate a tree.

Click the "Donate" button to do so.
https://campaigns.woodlandtrust.org.uk/page/46713/data/1
I've just bought 3.33 trees!

 

[LamieRobertson]

Click the "Donate" button to do so.
https://campaigns.woodlandtrust.org.uk/page/46713/data/1
I've just bought 3.33 trees!

Which end or did you go for the middle?

 

[Frankie]

Slugs and snails a real problem here as you can see in the picture , anyone got a good deterrent other than poisions ?

 

[Jack Straw]

Slugs and snails a real problem here as you can see in the picture , anyone got a good deterrent other than poisions ?



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A gravel mulch tends to put them off. It would be like walking on Brighton beach with bare feet!