Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

Depending on the size of the leaves, I would guess at viburnum.

Have you ever seen any flowers on it? Not that that matters, because I've got a manky old one that hardly ever flowers, and pruning at the wrong time of year would put paid to any, anyway!

However, there are several evergreen hedging shrubs, so it might not be.

Laurel is another possibility.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Depending on the size of the leaves, I would guess at viburnum.

Have you ever seen any flowers on it? Not that that matters, because I've got a manky old one that hardly ever flowers, and pruning at the wrong time of year would put paid to any, anyway!

However, there are several evergreen hedging shrubs, so it might not be.

Laurel is another possibility.

I am not aware of mine, or neighbours', flowering - but right now it does have some strange fern-like new growth, with little white flowers on that ping everywhere when you snip that bit off the hedge... a bit like the white stuff you'd get on, say, cowslips. Small/white flowers that "ping away".

silvercar

We have something like that in one part, I also randomly hack.

I suppose you could only hack bits that are too far out, to bring them into line with bits that haven't grown. Give the slow growing stuff a chance to see the light.

Danger is when some bits get too high or too thick to hack. Then you are stuck as those bits don't get pruned until you get someone in to do it.

PasturesNew

Just realised - as I'd uploaded those images and copy/pasted the codes I appear to have grabbed the wrong photo codes - those ones are TINY.

Hang on I'll have another go.... the pictures are bigger than that

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am not aware of mine, or neighbours', flowering - but right now it does have some strange fern-like new growth, with little white flowers on that ping everywhere when you snip that bit off the hedge... a bit like the white stuff you'd get on, say, cowslips. Small/white flowers that "ping away".

Anything like this?


And are they scented? Although if they are just buds, you might not smell anything.

michaels

A few months ago I downloaded and I think mostly filed in all the POA stuff as with our low income we would get it free but I think the next step was to get some signatures witnessed so it has gone onto a 'to do' pile....

PasturesNew

Should be bigger, 650 on longest edge:

1] https://s18.postimg.org/m089f3t2h/Hedge01.jpg
2] https://s27.postimg.org/frfy7ijtv/Hedge02.jpg
3] https://s28.postimg.org/9ndzda0od/Hedge03.jpg

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Anything like this?


And are they scented? Although if they are just buds, you might not smell anything.

Not aware of them smelling.

Like some of that - but on long strands.... like a new growth piece 1' long, with green stalk bits coming off that - and small/white bits stuck all along the new green stalk bits.

I have no idea how to describe hedges.

Listen ... it's green .... it's got a wooden trunk

Pyxis

This is a type of laurel, although there are lots of types.









Green with a wooden trunk sure does narrow down the possibilities!

PasturesNew

I just went outside and sawed off a random chunk of trunk.

There was one piece I've cut right back in the past and it was sticking up from the ground by just over a foot ... and it was "pointing" towards the path/house ... so I thought "don't want/need that bit - and if it grew it'd grow over the path ... so I'll saw it off". And I did.