Trees

I think I'd really need to see some photos before offering any further advice, elarson.

Got mine already in flower from a local garden centre about ten days ago - and it's still alive!!.

It's a long shot but you may find some way of going along the party wall route, I'd phone my local council for advice. Sometimes they can be quite helpful! I do know people in this situation who have just taken the bull by the horns and cut the tree - doesn't lead to good neighbourly relations...

Hi Pootle Take a quick look at this link if you haven't already done so: Post some pics of the affected trees, trying to get in as much detail of the problem as possible. Maybe we'll have a better idea of the problem then. Cheers, Matthew

There is/was a commercial product "stump out" or something like that - drill into the stumps, pour it in and in a year or so they rot. I used it on a big flowering cherry to good effect, but it did take two or three years. The roots of Leylandii will rot (more so than the stumps) but it takes...

Sorry, I didn't get a chance to look at this thread again. The second is definitely an Agouti. They're quite cute. I photographed this fellow in the rainforest in Honduras. He wasn't the least bit bothered by me.

You want Laburnum "Vossii" - they have massive and impressive flowers. Stuff from seed will, most of the time, be disappointing by comparison. "Vossii" always seems blinking expensive to me, so I suspect it is only grown by grafting. (No reason why you can't do that yourself though, but...

Acer or Prunus. Both of these have red leafed varieties and they would offset all the green trees in the area.

Thanks Jack, but I don't think it's courage, it's more like taking the bull by the horns. I don't think my neighbour has a clue what he's planted to be honest.

I reckon about 10/12 feet, the ones I saw in Madeira were fairly large, any closer than that and in time they would be touching. Just a guess.

All the rain here has made this the most 'verdant' spring for many years. This woodland strip has many shades of green as the trees come into leaf.

Tree Peonies do respond quite well to being pruned. Preferably do this in early Spring. I've pruned lanky ones down to about 15 cm above the ground but tend not to do all the stems in 1 go. IE do some and then the next year do the rest. With the branch that has broken (pity) prune that to about...

No, just put in him the gentle "naughty corner" along with your nephew. Nick, we don't eat dog here in the UK,

I can't help with the photo but I can suggest that I did a DIY job with a bit of Niwaki. I went to Architectural Plants in search of some nice bonsai looking trees as they seem to specialise in them. They had a really good selection of other plants that had been turned into the Niwaki. They do a...

Leave them alone. Picking off 'dead' flowers/petals will make no difference at all as they fall naturally and you may still get some fruit.

Hi Rex, I have had a lot of problems with frosts and my acers this year. Leaves have definately suffered with them shriveling from their ends. I wonder if this problem has stopped now we are seemingly free of frosts? I say 'seemingly' because the frost isn't so obvious as it could appear during...

Thanks for your previous help Spruce. Starting a new thread as I was unable to see the messages on the first one, so hope I am doing it correctly now. Removed the gum without cutting into the branches. There has been no more gum developed but although there are some new leaves mainly on the end...