Time For It To Go

[Sean Regan]

This was our "dwarf" conifer we planted on top of the rockery in 1987.
It's the one nearest the lamp, we moved it and eventually binned the others.

Over the years it grew until it reached close to 40ft tall this year.

Today it came down.

I got them to reduce it to this height.
The alternative would have been an ugly stump.

The outer branches will continue to grow but I won't let them grow any higher than the fence.

I'll train that Euonymus shrub to carry on growing round it.

 

[Silentrunning]

If that’s a dwarf, whatever you do don’t plant a green giant Arborvitae.

 

[Sean Regan]

If that’s a dwarf, whatever you do don’t plant a green giant Arborvitae.

We bought half a dozen Leylandii by mail order in the mid seventies. They were delivered in an envelope through the letterbox.
I planted them as as screen at the bottom of the garden, before we had the post and panel fence. Within ten years they were about ten feet tall, so I took them down and relaced them later with the bamboo, a variety which is very slow growing and doesn't spread.