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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 7, 2006 19:55:03 GMT
I've been lusting after the Japanese style small trees/shrubs that have been topiarised (is that a word?) so that the structure of the branches can be seen and the foliage is confined to 'bobbles'
I think that they're called 'cloud pine' and are VERY expensive, probably take years to produce...well I have a yen for one <snigger> and the only way I'm ever going to get one is if I can grow one myself.
Any advice as to what sort of tree or shrub I should use? and how would I go about it!?
CPBxxx
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Post by Plocket on Nov 10, 2006 17:56:59 GMT
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 10, 2006 21:09:42 GMT
Thank you Plocket, you're a star!
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Post by Plocket on Nov 11, 2006 10:03:26 GMT
Oh goodie!!!  |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 11, 2006 12:41:39 GMT
Been to a GC today and purchased a Pinus sylvestris 'chantry blue'...I shall have to contemplate it for a bit before I set to with the loppers...here's hoping.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2006 12:48:41 GMT
Hi CPB
Go careful with those loppers.
Regards Karenwl
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Post by oldmoleskins on Nov 11, 2006 13:12:45 GMT
the nice thing about cloud topiary, CPB, is that as it's 'free form' no-one can challenge your ideas... a lopsided cone or spiral, a hen that looks like a duck, that's just begging for criticsm which is most often unthinking of the effort that's gone into the plant - but passing clouds... You get in there, (make haste slowly...) OM. ps, not very informative at the moment (but may be if I get my way) the European Boxwood and Topiary Society website: www.ebts.org |
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Post by Plocket on Nov 11, 2006 18:43:17 GMT
Have fun lopping Cheery! Any chance of photographs when you are done?
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 11, 2006 20:44:34 GMT
OK, it's looking a bit scared...don't laugh...it's still a baby so hopefully I won't kill it....  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2006 20:47:32 GMT
It looks ok CPB but you eill still have to be careful with those loppers.
Karenwl ;D
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Post by Chuckles on Nov 11, 2006 20:53:39 GMT
I knew what Topairy was but on Pines  I couldn't get my head round it at all  The penny has dropped seeing the photo  like it |
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Post by 4pygmies on Nov 11, 2006 22:30:29 GMT
Coo! CPBScissorhands! Very nice sugar plum. That's lovely. Have you named it yet?? XX
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Post by Plocket on Nov 12, 2006 10:09:47 GMT
It's a lovely plant but it looks terrified!!!!! When can you start pruning it?
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 12, 2006 14:55:51 GMT
erm...already have done...that's what I've done so far (only a wee bit done as it's a baby so there isn't much to clip!)
It ent got a name yet 4P...any suggestions? (yep...am at work...snuck on the 'pooter for a few minutes whilst waiting for samples...ssshh) ;D
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Post by Plocket on Nov 12, 2006 16:01:09 GMT
Cool - done already hey? You don't hang about!!! As for names, Mr Daydream - he's cloud shaped and blue isn't he? Kate Bush (groan!) she sang "Cloud Busting" I think I'd better stop now!!! |
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Post by 4pygmies on Nov 12, 2006 17:59:25 GMT
Eric the half a Tree!! And I bet most of you babies have no idea what I'm talking about....Cheery knows, don't you, angel cake?? Hope on call is going well. XX
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 12, 2006 20:05:46 GMT
Why thank you for your interest and support! Love the names and it was a close call...but it will have to be Eric the Half a Tree.
Thank you both...<hug> for your suggestions...oops...more work tata ;D
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Post by Plocket on Nov 12, 2006 20:16:55 GMT
You MUST explain Eric the half a tree Cheery - pretty please?
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 12, 2006 23:52:01 GMT
Once upon a time a long time ago, CPB and 4P were in the sixth form at school together.....we used to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus, and would buy the records (aah vinyl....)...learn the sketches and songs off by heart and quote them at inappropriate moments...and then fall about laughing at our own cleverness...well we WERE only 17!
One of our favourite songs was the Eric the Half a Bee song...which began...
Is this a wretched demi-bee?
Half asleep upon my knee
SOME freak
From a laboratory
NO it's Eric
The half a bee.....
the chorus was...
Tiddly Dum
Twiddly dee
Eric The Half a Bee...
Maybe someone clever will post a link so that you can hear it...I might even have got some of the words wrong but well I AM in my fifties and it WAS a loooong time ago....ay 4P?
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 12, 2006 23:54:42 GMT
There was also the Money song...
I've got Ninety Thousand pounds in my pyjamas
I've got fifty thousand French Francs in my Fridge
I've got lots of lovely Lire now the Deutchmark's getting dearer
And my dollar bills could buy the Brooklyn Bridge
halcyon days.... ;D
apologies for spellingdge mistx
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Post by Spruance on Nov 13, 2006 0:14:05 GMT
Once upon a time a long time ago, CPB and 4P were in the sixth form at school together.....we used to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus, and would buy the records (aah vinyl....)...learn the sketches and songs off by heart and quote them at inappropriate moments...and then fall about laughing at our own cleverness...well we WERE only 17! One of our favourite songs was the Eric the Half a Bee song...which began... Is this a wretched demi-bee?
Half asleep upon my knee
SOME freak
From a laboratory
NO it's Eric
The half a bee.....the chorus was... Tiddly Dum
Twiddly dee
Eric The Half a Bee...Maybe someone clever will post a link so that you can hear it...I might even have got some of the words wrong but well I AM in my fifties and it WAS a loooong time ago....ay 4P? There you go... Eric The Half A Bee ;D |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 13, 2006 0:40:48 GMT
OOh you DIAMOND!!! thanks Spruance...a trip down memory lane twas...sigh.
I got quite a lot of the words wrong didn't I?...or rather got some of the words RIGHT but not necessarily in the right order
thanks again...hope 4P sees this too!!
back to work (yawn)
CPBx
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 13, 2006 0:44:28 GMT
Um...I'm all on my own here.....'1 member on-line'...that's me!....
I'll just have to talk to myself!...OR I could take advantage in the brief lull in samples and go and have a coffee.
ttfn
CPB
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2006 0:52:26 GMT
Not entirely alone...... I could do a cuttting of the snail for you? Bergonia Escargot.....  |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 13, 2006 1:34:47 GMT
ooh ooh ooh where'd you get it!!?
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Post by Plocket on Nov 13, 2006 8:22:40 GMT
So what was the other half of Eric then? If it's from Monty Python I dread to think!!! ;D
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Post by 4pygmies on Nov 13, 2006 18:53:23 GMT
..."he loves him carnally. Cyril Connolly? NO!..." BRILLIANT!! Spruance, you've made a couple of old ladies very happy!! EEEH, it takes me back to halycon days humming gently in the Lower 6th.....I would thoroughly recommennd that anyone slightly depressed and weary clicks on the link - and if you don't giggle, well......what's matter with you?? "semi carnally...."exits left, whistling......
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 13, 2006 21:11:07 GMT
Maybe I should get another one and call it Cyril Connolly..... ;D
Aye 4P medear...now can you sing 'The Idiot Song' (Monty Python Live at Drury Lane album ALBATROSS...get your lovely Albatross here...Stormy Petrel...etc...sigh....) all the way through? I got a second hand apron....lemon curry?....AAAURGH HELP MEEEEEEEE
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I couldn't get my head round it at all 
like it
