nepia
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Everything posted by nepia
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An outsider perhaps - Broom?
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Don't tell anyone but actually I have shot a handful; pesky things. And no, I don't hold myself up as an arbiter of moral rectitude - I just don't like parrakeets 🙂
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Red Robin as a maiden tree is magnificent but won't be at all good if allowed to grow significantly before being cut in order to thicken; the lollipop regrowth goes in all directions and is hideous. Non-conifer fast growing evergreen... laurel (cherry or Portuguese or bay), privet, griselinia. personally I'd prefer privet from those; fast growing all right, regrowth is predictable, it will take a hammering, if cut at the right time flowers well and is very attractive to pollinators - actually looks good in flower too I reckon. Thinking a little more laterally some research should throw up some Rhododendron that would do the job (not ponticum though!) Is holly too slow growing/ I'm sure there are other possibilities Good luck
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Homo sapiens never ceases to disappoint
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A slow burner VID-20210501-WA0014.mp4
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Parrakeets... not my favourite to put it mildly; they seem so out of place. There are some marshes just west of Redhill that host at least hundreds, perhaps thousands of them for roosting. Between around 5 and 6pm on a summer's evening flight after flight of 30 or so birds pass over the town on their way there from God knows where. I wouldn't want to be trying to sleep nearby.
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Really pleased with the number and variety of birds we've managed to attract in the first three months here. All five goldfinch were on the feeder a second before I snapped
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Great result; hat off to your friend 😊
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Go easy on the tongue oil for him - er, the tung oil 😂
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No. Fungal spores are everywhere, jes blowin' in the wind 😊
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It's a cherry on its last legs. You could leave it and wait for it to fall to bits or take off the top ~2/3 and leave the stem for habitat; it's in very poor condition so would be good for that. It may even sprout some new growth as a reaction but don't get too excited if it does. Sorry!
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You certainly have! Out of interest can you remember what happened to those lumps I brought back from Devon for you? Jon
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...or grub it out and put in a new 2m specimen that can become a tree-shaped tree. They grow like there's no tomorrow
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I guess you're looking for Jo-ce Metal belonging to Laurie Buckingham in Wadhurst, Kent. When I last spoke to Laurie in 2012 he was retired and made me one more frame as a paid favour as I already had two! And yes, they're brilliant if you have numerous straight lengths of cord to cut.
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Pollarding - no problem. Years ago I took all the branches off the top of a 10' stem because the tree had been hugely shaded on one side by a pine. The Tulip came back really well, sending up three scaffold branches I suppose you'd call them. Sadly two of them were very close to each other and developed an included union which failed in a storm, the split breaching the pollard point and dividing the stem to within 3 feet of the ground.
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😂😂😂
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Converting log splitter to single handled operation
nepia replied to Gav73's topic in Firewood forum
Make up your mind - who are you?! 😂 -
Absolutely superb and what a great place for nature it will be when grown back with all those trees in it. Shame about the riff raff trees behind 🤣
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Been planting some new woodland stuff; Corylopsis and Hamamelis (dark red flower, not scented). Elsewhere in the garden Viburnum plicatum and a very small Drimys
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Our bluebells are very late - a neighbour's 50yds away are in full flower - but we have the ample compensation of a good show of wood anemones for now
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Converting log splitter to single handled operation
nepia replied to Gav73's topic in Firewood forum
Aaah - the pic doesn't show the name; Darius Rucker 😊
