weigelas, dappled willow, forsythia the right plants for me?
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Dappled Willow Pruning
Comments (9)A few thoughts here, as I have three gigantic dappled willows and loads of experience with them. I wonder why there is no white dappled on the leaves, too. That's a willow, but keep an eye on it come springtime. It should put out new growth that's green, white and pink. But in one of my photos, the foliage is all green, so yeah...there is a point in the season where they're pretty generic looking. Your plant is fine. Cut off the dead. And then TRANSPLANT it further away from the foundation. You cannot imagine how big they get. Take it out ten feet if you can, I am not kidding. For example, my three were the same size as yours when I bought them at a plant sale five years ago. They got crispy and brown in the containers when I didn't plant them soon enough. They limped along for a season. Now I have this in the spring. And THAT was cut back by at least four feet before it leafed out. I have them cut back by 4-5 feet every spring. They easily grow to 10-ft across while you're not looking. You really must move it and it must have room to spread or you will constantly be hacking away at it. Here is another one, seen at the right in the photo. I had sawed this one down to the ground a year earlier. Note that it's green. The dappled color comes about amonth later in spring: See my point?...See MoreDappled Willow by foundation
Comments (15)Just want to add to this older thread. That same willow under the right conditions (root stock may be the factor) can easily go to 18 ft tall by 18ft. I did the exact same thing at my parents house. The tag said 6x6 Inside 5 years it was well over what the tag claimed and now is 30 feet around and close to 20 feet tall. This is with a few hard pruunings. The tree itself is absolutely stunning in late spring. Thankfully the willow wasn't near any water pipes aside from sprinklers and their property slopes down away from the house sharply after the willow so the maim roops followed the water down. I wish I had known how tremendous it would become. I would have planted it further away. I also contacted a professional and sent them a picture due to its size and wanting to know what happened to my cute 6x6 willow. They confirmed the species and said that I had an amazing specimen In ideal growing conditions. I will upload a photo next time I am by their house....See MoreDappled Willow Tree Form??
Comments (39)well - its not that you can't. Its what may occur later on. You may have seen a number of ficus plants being braided like this and that's actually in the nature of ficus which are in the wild, considered parasite trees (they grow up trees and eventually strangle them). its fine for those tropical plants. With dappled willows though it could be a different story. You would notice in tree shaping how branches growing too close to another are separated and sometimes one will be cut out. This is because those tiny gaps in between is an area vulnerable to insects, ice, disease. I'm not too sure about the strangling it to death part of it. Just beneath the outer bark layer, the is the layer that's responsible for carrying up nutrients - basically plant veins. So if that gets strangled then some of the branches can be affected by that process. -- that is if those bark areas are compromised....See Moreforced forsythia and curly willow
Comments (4)Very often the roots formed in a water only situation cannot absorb enough from soil if you do an immediate transplant. One way around this is to make a very thin mud slurry as a first transfer, then a most earthy tranplant, which can be hardened off and dried to normal soil moisture content outside before final transplant into the garden. This problem of water rooting is why commerical producers root in moist seed staring mix, sand or vermiculite. I usually allow two-three weeks in each situation, mostly becuase I forget to do anything any sooner. Maybe a week at each stage would work?...See More- 5 years ago
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