the 'todays job' thread

[Steve Bullman]

Bits and pieces today, mostly raising trees around a moat to improve the view.

 

 

@Matt McAulay in action 

 

 

customer has had this unusual plant, our main job was to avoid it at all costs.  Think it was called a gunnery or something

 

[Rich Rule]

Cheers Steve.

 

Is that thing a vegetable?

[felixthelogchopper]

Gunnera. I think they have some at Kew.

[Steve Bullman]

20 minutes ago, Rich Rule said:

Cheers Steve.

 

Is that thing a vegetable?

Don’t believe so, it does look a bit rhubarb like doesn’t it 

[Mark Bolam]

It is a gunnera.
I strimmed one once thinking it was a weed, that didn't go down too well with the new manor residents!
Luckily it came back with a vengeance.
There's a few really nice specimens down here.

[Steve Bullman]

Just now, Mark Bolam said:

It is a gunnera.
I strimmed one once thinking it was a weed, that didn't go down too well with the new manor residents!
Luckily it came back with a vengeance.
There's a few really nice specimens down here.

Apparently they are hard to get established, conditions need to be just right 

[scbk]

Think they like the damp, there's one here about the size of a large van!!

[nepia]

Just to pee on the parade Gunnera are actually pretty common as plants of damp ground, mainly as marginals.  But very impressive nonetheless.  There is a garden somewhere - no idea where - that has them big enough that you walk under leaves.

[Marula]

Why’s that? 
At the moment the furthest we go is about 30miles for the national trust, but we tend to leave the kit there till we are done with the contract

I was just wondering, 30 miles is quite some way to travel with a tractor. They make for a much easier day that's for sure if they can be got to site.

[John Shutler]

It doesn’t take much more than an hour to do 30miles, 99% of my work is within 10 miles of my yard