Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Controlling tree height 21Jun 28, 2011 8:39 am Topiarius, I've made a test on some murrayas. I gently peeled away about 3-5mm of "bark" til I got to the green - whihc was pretty much straight away - they don't have tough bark like it seems on the surface, it's thin like skin! So, we'll see. I hope I followed your advice properly My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Controlling tree height 22Jun 28, 2011 9:06 pm Lex Topiarius, I've made a test on some murrayas. I gently peeled away about 3-5mm of "bark" til I got to the green - whihc was pretty much straight away - they don't have tough bark like it seems on the surface, it's thin like skin! So, we'll see. I hope I followed your advice properly Hi Lex,it sounds as though you have done a good job. As the wound calcifys it should throw out a new branch. Topiarius Re: Controlling tree height 24Jul 10, 2011 11:57 pm topiarius Whenever you go to a Nursery and buy a plant the staff should tell you how to treat the soil and how to maintain the plant so that it always looks perfect. It does not matter what type of soil you have you can always improve it. Of course that depends on the training they have received. Standards of advice vary as much as the number of parking spaces in shops do. Re: Controlling tree height 25Jul 11, 2011 3:51 pm Fu Manchu topiarius Whenever you go to a Nursery and buy a plant the staff should tell you how to treat the soil and how to maintain the plant so that it always looks perfect. It does not matter what type of soil you have you can always improve it. Of course that depends on the training they have received. Standards of advice vary as much as the number of parking spaces in shops do. Good to see you back on line Fu!!! Topiarius Re: Controlling tree height 28Jul 20, 2011 1:37 am Lay the trampoline against the back fence, then use that tree fork as a giant shanghai and fling the kids into the bouncy tramp on the otherside of the yard. *There maybe a slight chance they overshoot the fence and travel a few houses down the road but they'll be fine Re: Controlling tree height 29Jul 21, 2011 11:43 pm The tree has now gone That tree was one we planted out our rental, and then when we left, we dug it up (dug down about 4 or 5 ft to get the tap root) and planted it in our back yard. That was in 2002 when said tree was about 2 - 2.5 meters tall. It fell on my daughters 2nd birthday. We were tossing up whether to have the party in the back yard, or at the park around the corner. Lucky for us, we chose the park. It was a beautiful sunny day, with not a breath of air. Went to the party at 11am. Tree was standing. Came back at 1pm. Tree was having a lie down. It had been raining for a while so the ground was soft. I'd asked my wife the night before if she thought one of the branches was lower. Nah, just in your head she reckoned. Well, who's laughing now huh ??? Ahhh, no-one really R.I.P Re: Controlling tree height 30Nov 28, 2011 11:57 am sorry for bringing up an old thread, but i am a bit confuse hopefully someone can point me to the right direction. I need to prune 2 types of vege. lilly pilly and english box. they are all tube size atm. with lilly pilly i am trying to make a lollipop topiary, from what i can gather online, some websites mention of cutting all lateral branches to the stem, tie main stem to stake, leaving the top terminal bud with foilage untouch so as to promote vertialca growth to the required height. Once required height reached, we can then start doing lateral pruning to promote dense foilage in order to achieve a ball shape. but, how do we stop lilly pilly from growing taller? do we do cut terminal bud? wouldn't it be too late to "create dense foilage" once the height is reached? because there will be not much lateral node left? with english box, i am planning for a small ball shape topiary sitting on the ground, which means i have to create as dense possible foilage from the beginning, doing a straight cut on every lateral branch will it promote more shoots than it currently have? cheers. Controlling tree height 31Nov 28, 2011 12:39 pm The answers you seek are in the sticky threads at the top Read the topiary articles. Watch the YouTube videos. Controlling tree height 33Nov 28, 2011 2:44 pm The other threads have some great info. Topiarus will no doubt be able to assist you with specific questions you might have after you watch the #EasyTopiary video on YouTube. Re: Controlling tree height 34Nov 30, 2011 4:17 am Regarding the clothes line. Yep, dad managed this with ours. Totally flattened it. The tree lived on along with the bloodwood which was also pruned. 10 meters away too.. Jeez he was a pro with that chainsaw... Re: Controlling tree height 35Nov 30, 2011 2:56 pm rojak1 sorry for bringing up an old thread, but i am a bit confuse hopefully someone can point me to the right direction. I need to prune 2 types of vege. lilly pilly and english box. they are all tube size atm. with lilly pilly i am trying to make a lollipop topiary, from what i can gather online, some websites mention of cutting all lateral branches to the stem, tie main stem to stake, leaving the top terminal bud with foilage untouch so as to promote vertialca growth to the required height. Once required height reached, we can then start doing lateral pruning to promote dense foilage in order to achieve a ball shape. but, how do we stop lilly pilly from growing taller? do we do cut terminal bud? wouldn't it be too late to "create dense foilage" once the height is reached? because there will be not much lateral node left? with english box, i am planning for a small ball shape topiary sitting on the ground, which means i have to create as dense possible foilage from the beginning, doing a straight cut on every lateral branch will it promote more shoots than it currently have? cheers. Hi Rojak,once you have the height you want the four remaining laterals will give you all the thickness you want by cutting on the third node of each branch to create mutiples and then doing the same on all the multiples until you have the thickness you want. Then you start useing your shears in the four positions as shown on the "Set the Standard" thread to get a perfect round head. If you want a ball on the ground instead of a trunk do not cut anything off just cut every branch on a node as low as possible to get the thickness where you want it and then use the same four positions to get the ball. Topiarius Re: Controlling tree height 36Nov 30, 2011 3:04 pm Hi Topiarius, Thank you for your advice, i just went through most of your video posted on youtube, they are great. I am now following your video instruction setting up my lilly pilly for standard topiary, english box will need sometime they are too slow growing. cheers. Hello. I just bought a few acres in Habana, Mackay, and my horses seem to love hanging around under this tree. I would like to name the paddock after this tree. Can… 0 9528 Fellow Perth dweller. Looks like pruns nigra. It's a dark leaf flowering plum. Doesn't get massive and is easily trimmed deciduous tree. Very popular in small gardens in Perth 7 2759 |