Hedges & Topiary
6 Cloud-Pruned Tiers Shaped on a Podocarpus with Okatsune 217 Shears
Six tiers of foliage pads on a single Podocarpus macrophyllus takes three to four seasons to...
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Fiskars PowerGear X vs Bosch AdvancedHedgeCut 36 for Trimming a 20-Metre Beech Screen
A 20-metre beech screen held at 2.4 metres has 96 square metres of vertical face before the top...
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30 Centimetres of Annual Growth Managed on a Thuja Screen with a Husqvarna 522HD60
A mature Thuja occidentalis screen can add 20 to 40 cm of soft growth in a season. With its 559...
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6 Bare Patches Filled on a Fagus sylvatica Beech Screen with Pot-Grown Whips
Bare-root Fagus sylvatica gets planted November through March and nothing else, or so the...
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9 Root-Balled Yew Units Set on a 20-Metre Line from Practicality Brown
Nine root-balled yews across a 20-metre run puts each plant at roughly 2.2-metre centres....
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Photinia Red Robin Leaf Spot Stopped with a Bordeaux Mixture Spray on a 12-Plant Hedge
A 12-plant Photinia Red Robin hedge covered in purple-ringed blotches, half the lower leaves...
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Box Tree Caterpillar Stopped on a Buxus sempervirens Border with XenTari Spray
A Buxus sempervirens edge can lose its leaves in under two weeks once the box tree caterpillar...
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STIHL HS 45: Why a Blunt Blade Tears Ligustrum Leaves and How Resharpening Fixes It
On Ligustrum ovalifolium, a rounded STIHL HS 45 tooth crushes the soft petiole before the leaf...
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Fireblight Cut Out of a Pyracantha Screen with Sterilised Bahco Loppers
Erwinia amylovora entered UK notification in 1957 under the Fireblight Disease Order, later...
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