Trees

Thanks for the advice, I'll have a look at my local nursery. I have had a quote on a 10/12' leylandii for £90+VAT. Will definatley look at The cedar you have suggested. As for the dog mess, we have already been in touch with the local council, they did send him a letter instructing him to clear...

Hi, new member here and novice gardener but mad keen. I have a problem with my Holly tree, it lost all of it's leaves over the last few months. It has been in a large plastic pot for the past three years and thriving at four feet tall, it even produced its first berry last year. The leaves...

Hi tattie,Try this online guide:As far as horses are concerned you would definitely need to protect the young trees. In fact, you'd need to fence them off completely to make sure that they don't get munched.

It`s a total lack of water.:gnthb:

Hope your palms are gorgeous already. I was in the same situantion5 years ago, but as whis4ey says, now it looks beautiful!

Thank you. I can't take any credit though as it is my first summer in this house. There are some nice things popping up but some seem to have been quite randomly planted and I'm never sure if I'm going to have a weed or a flower, until it has bloomed!

Next door to me they're having a very big Yew tree pruned down. The estimate for the job is £1,000. I'd shop around for that one - but it's not going to be cheap.

Hi Tganel afraid can,t help you much try this Link,might be of some help

First off Trader, I would love to have a yucca 10-12ft high, what kind is it? A picture would be nice.You can leave the old flower stalks attached but they do start to look bad after a while as they take a couple of years to drop off naturally, I have a similar problem with cordylines, I know...

I'm with Dai there i'm afraid, we'd be guilty of aiding and abeting a criminal offence. Anyone can read this, including the council, police, environment agency etc.

They were a completely unplanned random event; eating a Tesco's Pink Lady apple in the office at work and noticing that the seeds had started to sprout inside the apple, so I put them in a vacant plant pot (where the last plant had died from neglect), but otherwise didn't expect anything or even...

Hi, new member here and novice gardener but very keen. I have a problem with my Holly tree, it lost all of it's leaves during the first few months of the year. It has been in a large plastic pot for the past three years and thriving at four feet tall, it even produced its first berry last year....

Sounds like a good name for a cocktail to me

I think its a bit of a tall order myself.Irish yew stays very compact, its slow growing though.I cant see the point in planting anything fast growing as you will be for ever trimming it.

Ah, I see, not a brilliant sign then...thanks for your reply, just knowing what it is is a big help!

GD if the shoot is coming from below the graft its a gonner.Not much else you can do other than dig it out and try again.Perhaps if you can find a fence or wall that you can plant a new one against it would help, although I doubt it was the cold that killed it, it would just give you a...

perhaps I should edit my posts more often ... I cringe at my typing mistakes !

Julie, you can grow any plant in a pot. Just make sure it`s fed and watered properly and repot upwards every 2 or 3 years. Take the yellow leaves off, leaves on plants die. Just remove them.:thumb:

That damage is a lot differant to the link I posted Flinty. I concede defeat.:lollol::lollol::gnthb::flag:

Thank you Woo.Victoria I appreciate your reply. The reason I thought cutting it down was for it to shoot as you say. The reason being it happens to other older trees when cut down why not this? I had thought to leave it in it's pot for another year after cutting and then trim the roots. I am...