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KajiKita

I survived but am scratched to bits and shattered! Thank goodness is Mr KK’s night to cook dinner 😊

Before:

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After: 

Look what I found hiding underneath! 😊
Sown from seed year and years and three houses ago 😊



Feels like a tree again instead of a menacing blob! 😊

KK

SandyShores

Love all the plants in that patch Kajikita, but I'm not sure what the one in the middle is - lovely though.  Love how you've trimmed the tree.  I need to do that to a couple of bush/trees we are growing - so much neater.  I also need to do something with the dwarf apple - its gone wild this year and it definitely needs pruning.  A visit to youtube might be needed.

KajiKita

SandyShores said:

Love all the plants in that patch Kajikita, but I'm not sure what the one in the middle is - lovely though.  Love how you've trimmed the tree.  I need to do that to a couple of bush/trees we are growing - so much neater.  I also need to do something with the dwarf apple - it’s gone wild this year and it definitely needs pruning.  A visit to youtube might be needed.

By the plant in the middle do you mean the spade shaped leaves with white variegation? It’s Arum Italicum - the Italian version of our native arum. 

I think apple pruning is only meant to be done over the winter when the tree is dormant. I’d take some photos from various angles now though and annotate with comments about what you do / don’t like about its shape, so you remember what you were aiming for when you are faced with a bare tree in the deep, dark, depths of winter … DAMHIK! 😉😂

KK

SandyShores

Yes that one, lovely.  Good thinking Kajikita, and I won't   It's just grown large and I think its supposed to be shaped/thinned, but photos are good and then I can check it out when have time in the winter.

savingholmes

Looks lovely. You've created a lovely garden and are making the most of your borrowed landscape.

KajiKita

savingholmes said:

Looks lovely. You've created a lovely garden and are making the most of your borrowed landscape.

It’s coming on but there are huge areas of scruffiness that you don’t get to see (yet!) …. 😉

KK

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SandyShores said:

Yes that one, lovely.  Good thinking Kajikita, and I won't   It's just grown large and I think its supposed to be shaped/thinned, but photos are good and then I can check it out when have time in the winter.

Just as a heads up, it is as toxic as our native arum. So something to wash your hands after handling and if you are worried about littlies eating orange berries, cut the flowering stem out in late spring. 

KK

penny_less

I will just say, when we moved here 4 years ago I was delighted to see this in our garden. Now though, I pull it up as soon as it pops up as it has taken over everything else. Fine if you’ve got the room, but I definitely haven’t!

KajiKita

penny_less said:

I will just say, when we moved here 4 years ago I was delighted to see this in our garden. Now though, I pull it up as soon as it pops up as it has taken over everything else. Fine if you’ve got the room, but I definitely haven’t!

I haven’t noticed that here so far. Must like your soil? 🤷‍♀️😊

KK