Replanted a tree...it’s not doing well

[rezello]

Jul 18, 2020 17:11:37 GMT Pepperty said:

I managed to almost murder a hydrangea, i fried it in full glare of sun, so in desperation i took a spade to it.... what i mean is i dug the bugger out and threw it under another random bush, and its revived! in fact its happily growing it must like a bit of shade then?

Then i saw the fern was a blackening mess so i got a massive HUGE spade and prized it out (it took me laying on lawn grinding my teeth to heave it out whilst viciously chopping its roots apart) and you know what? its liking living behind bushes and is glowing over being shaded?   frankly I'm amazed!

The only job 'him indoors' tackles (very sporadically) is lawn mowing, and of course the dog has peed all over it, burnt the grass and its pathetically patchy but TBH neither of us mind because fore mentioned dog is ancient and really thrilled-happy to have his own grass that its rather sweet to see his joy (whilst intermittently trampling down my flower beds) I can hardly shout at him

I'm starting to feel like a rescue center for deformed plants as everything I've bought is twisted, stunted and very very cheap so i will give them a shot and by pure luck they seem to be grateful for the chance to grow except the dahlias that are slug fodder  OH! and all my grow your own veg is now latticework 



p.s saying prayers for 'Trev'

Oh wow it looks amazing your a natural at this...we had nowhere open for plants near me for quite a while and having three young kids and having to work opposite shifts from partner made it tricky getting out and about to find any 

I totally get what you are saying about the dog wee ours used to do the same when we did have some grass that’s another reason I gave up with it. 

my garden looks tiny for the picture but it’s not this small in reality   It’s slow progress, we have been here 3 years and spend most of those three buggering about with the grass but at least now we dont have to now and can put our time money and effort into other parts of the garden. I will try and find a before picture of how the guy We bought the house off had it  excuse the messy looking summer house we tried to tint the windows to hide all mess but failed miserably! 

[rezello]

Ah here we are (nicked off rightmove) we had to knock out the retaining wall because when it rained it was a lake! We’ve since built a conservatory so the patio is nowhere near as big ...

[Perpetua]

My ' Before's ' also nicked from Right Move . . . . the Estate Agent had the nerve to call the garden landscaped.

My ' After's '  . . . . moved in a year ago, having ripped the house and garden apart -to put it back to how I really wanted it and to realise it's potential. Still got the builder's in after a disastrous ( and expensive bodge job(s) done by the original builder - almost there now though, mainly just the front to get finished off. But there's a shortage of bricks as all the building companies around here bought up stocks before lockdown.

I've put some clematis netting up on the fence, the hope being in a few years that will be covered . . . and I went for astro turf as it wasn't a huge area that needed grass, plus thinking of doggy widdle! And I quite fancy a large 5' x 4' ish mirror/brushed steel on the brick wall t'other side of my house - just to give that illusion of space.

[rezello]

Jul 19, 2020 11:14:26 GMT Perpetua said:

My ' Before's ' also nicked from Right Move . . . . the Estate Agent had the nerve to call the garden landscaped.

My ' After's '  . . . . moved in a year ago, having ripped the house and garden apart -to put it back to how I really wanted it and to realise it's potential. Still got the builder's in after a disastrous ( and expensive bodge job(s) done by the original builder - almost there now though, mainly just the front to get finished off. But there's a shortage of bricks as all the building companies around here bought up stocks before lockdown.

I've put some clematis netting up on the fence, the hope being in a few years that will be covered . . . and I went for astro turf as it wasn't a huge area that needed grass, plus thinking of doggy widdle! And I quite fancy a large 5' x 4' ish mirror/brushed steel on the brick wall t'other side of my house - just to give that illusion of space.

Ha ha abit like everywhere’s a “sought after area” when you know damn well it’s the roughest estate in the city ha ha ha ! 

what a transformation though I love it ! 

[DaveJ]

Good luck with Trev the magnolia rezello . Can't say I can offer too much info that'd help though. Not really a green thumb sorta fella myself. What I have seen with our two is that they do not like *our* full summer sun.

As to yards? Well, I gotta say a couple of the yards posted here sure seem pretty nice and clearly reflect a lot of effort from their owners.

Ours? Well, not so nice at the moment. See, a month or so ago the crapper stopped working. So an army of plumbers and misc assorted machinery did this:




40 plus year old earthenware pipes had collapsed. On a sunday. *sigh*

Now, am progressing through restoring damaged lawn. Not the best time to do it though, being the middle of winter here and things somewhat dormant. Ah, well. 

[Postmodern Smoking]

Jul 22, 2020 6:36:54 GMT DaveJ said:

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Ours? Well, not so nice at the moment. See, a month or so ago the crapper stopped working. ...

Long time to have to hold it in !! 

[DaveJ]

Jul 22, 2020 8:41:00 GMT Postmodern Smoking said:

Jul 22, 2020 6:36:54 GMT DaveJ said:

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Ours? Well, not so nice at the moment. See, a month or so ago the crapper stopped working. ...

Long time to have to hold it in !! 

hehe ... yeah ..

Saved by good neighbours.

We had a sorta working after a fashion crapper late that same day but it took 'em two full days to deal with all the associated carry on.

[rezello]

Jul 22, 2020 6:36:54 GMT DaveJ said:

Good luck with Trev the magnolia rezello . Can't say I can offer too much info that'd help though. Not really a green thumb sorta fella myself. What I have seen with our two is that they do not like *our* full summer sun.

As to yards? Well, I gotta say a couple of the yards posted here sure seem pretty nice and clearly reflect a lot of effort from their owners.

Ours? Well, not so nice at the moment. See, a month or so ago the crapper stopped working. So an army of plumbers and misc assorted machinery did this:




40 plus year old earthenware pipes had collapsed. On a sunday. *sigh*

Now, am progressing through restoring damaged lawn. Not the best time to do it though, being the middle of winter here and things somewhat dormant. Ah, well. 

Admittedly I looked at the first couple of pics without reading and thought, “well he’s doing something spectacular that’ll blow ours out the water” then I read ...ah mate that sucks I hope it gets sorted soon I really do feel for you...the joys of life eh? You think your on top of things then sh!t happens 

Thanks for the tip though will move Trev to a slightly more secluded spot if privacy is what he’s after 

[DaveJ]

Jul 22, 2020 20:38:34 GMT rezello said:

...ah mate that sucks ...the joys of life eh?

Yep. All sorted now though, that little lot happened a month or so ago. So, all over now, well, except for regrowing the lawn. Oh, and getting over paying the bill! Needless to say, that little lot cost a bunch.

Jul 22, 2020 20:38:34 GMT rezello said:

Thanks for the tip though will move Trev to a slightly more secluded spot if privacy is what he’s after 

May not be such an issue for you over there. Different climates and all. BUT here, we found those bushes suffered in our direct summer sun. Lot of burned/scorched leaves and such. They wanted protection from the light & heat. I think they call it "dappled light" or somesuch.  But that's our summer: long periods of high 30s (with a few 40s thrown in for good measure) with no cloud/shade. They did get plenty of water, so it was just the heat/light. Prolly not an issue for you though. Seemed to like a bit of a feed periodically too.

Good luck with Trev.

[rezello]

After a particularly tiring week I came home and was greeted by Trev and his new growth...I’m pleased to say that Trev is recovering quicker than expedited

I took the advice you guys had given me and moved him into a more secluded spot, shielding him from too much direct sunlight...watered him but not over doing it with the rainwater from the waterbutt and my other half gave him some miracle gro yesterday which I didn’t know about (then claims that’s what’s done it ) but there are some very promising new shoots, more so than on the pictures here,  so I’m pleased as punch 

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Scratch the stems. Any brown bits, cut them off. They're dead. Good job on his revival. Looks like he'll come back better than ever!

[rezello]

Aug 1, 2020 8:43:25 GMT @spikeyfridge said:

Scratch the stems. Any brown bits, cut them off. They're dead. Good job on his revival. Looks like he'll come back better than ever!

Do you mean his branches? I feel like I’ll be cutting him down as I’m sure most of them are dead? Sorry I’m new to all of this 

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Aug 1, 2020 22:49:11 GMT rezello said:

Aug 1, 2020 8:43:25 GMT @spikeyfridge said:

Scratch the stems. Any brown bits, cut them off. They're dead. Good job on his revival. Looks like he'll come back better than ever!

Do you mean his branches? I feel like I’ll be cutting him down as I’m sure most of them are dead? Sorry I’m new to all of this 

Only if there's no life in them. You want him to concentrate his energy into the new shoots which will become branches. 
I'm sure it's better to prune when dormant, November time??!!
Or you could wait until next spring and see what has survived 
I'd be tempted to just wait. With those new shoots, it looks like he's adapting.

I cut down a huge bush to about 2 inches to basically kill it off, but it's grown back better than before. Nature is amazing!
I'm also umming and ahhing whether to chop down a fig tree to enable it to produce lower branches but I'm very hesitant and also waiting til spring.

[rezello]

Aug 2, 2020 8:37:53 GMT @spikeyfridge said:

Aug 1, 2020 22:49:11 GMT rezello said:

Do you mean his branches? I feel like I’ll be cutting him down as I’m sure most of them are dead? Sorry I’m new to all of this 

Only if there's no life in them. You want him to concentrate his energy into the new shoots which will become branches. 
I'm sure it's better to prune when dormant, November time??!!
Or you could wait until next spring and see what has survived 
I'd be tempted to just wait. With those new shoots, it looks like he's adapting.

I cut down a huge bush to about 2 inches to basically kill it off, but it's grown back better than before. Nature is amazing!
I'm also umming and ahhing whether to chop down a fig tree to enable it to produce lower branches but I'm very hesitant and also waiting til spring.

I did and I didn’t take your advice, so I looked closely to see where he was sprouting from and it seems he was sprouting from areas where twigs had come away, so I helped a little and took the other dead twigs off, by just snapping them where they were easy to snap and leaving the ones that weren’t (not a lot were not easy to snap if that makes sense) and since doing that he seems to have blossomed into action! I am hopeful that he continues and we see a whole new tree before the summer is out, I will post new pictures of his progress when I get a chance but so far he is making brilliant progress! I am so happy 

And yes, nature is truly amazing, I’ve had tomatoes plants come up through gravel when I have thought I had pulled them all up before! And I have seen plants grow through tarmac and concrete! You cannot stop Mother Nature and I love it  

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Brilliant! He'll probably come into his own next year. Some of my flowering plants have just flowered. I need to cut them back hard after to encourage bushiness etc. It's all trial and error. Best I get rid of the weeds too (eventually)

A weed is only a plant in the place where you don't want it ...