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Hi all. New to the site, very interesting reading some of the posts. I'm based in Oxfordshire and a self employed gardener, mainly concentrating on the horticultural side of things and no so much on the hard stuff. Gardening runs in the family, my…
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Hi everyone.I have a client with a weeping birch that has 5 or six branches growing vertically (so not very weeping), he wants these pruned back hard to where the weeping format is. the weeping part of the tree is approx 3.6 meters, the verticle br…
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Hi all. New to the site, very interesting reading some of the posts. I'm based in Oxfordshire and a self employed gardener, mainly concentrating on the horticultural side of things and no so much on the hard stuff. Gardening runs in the family, my mother being a professional gardener for over 30 years, I grew up with it. I did a bit to much of it as a child and got sick of it, so went off for a while and did my own thing. Then I settled down and had kids and came back to the garden for a good…
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Hard (ish) pruning of a weeping birch
Hi everyone.I have a client with a weeping birch that has 5 or six branches growing vertically (so not very weeping), he wants these pruned back hard to where the weeping format is. the weeping part of the tree is approx 3.6 meters, the verticle branches are wrist thick where the client wants them cut and probly 1.5 to 2 meters in length to come off.I told him these dhould have been done late winter before the sap rises as they will bleed and could get infections in the wounds.Any advice is…
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