tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797396120087729156.post8490906442575828622..comments2024-03-27T00:25:28.696+11:00Comments on Garden amateur: Betting on hedgesJamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14653345793213312242noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797396120087729156.post-8929124866780820602018-01-06T23:08:07.907+11:002018-01-06T23:08:07.907+11:00What I saw was something uniquely Stewart - the St... What I saw was something uniquely Stewart - the Stearman, a Cub, the 150, maybe a Champ all in formation. For years, they've flown a bunch of their airplanes to breakfast before they open on January 1st.<br /><a href="http://all4webs.com/vanessa3424/contact.htm" rel="nofollow">galvanized chain link fence</a><br />Rebecca A. Maynardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16866751749531276126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797396120087729156.post-46450718182432953562014-06-02T18:47:10.539+10:002014-06-02T18:47:10.539+10:00Guess what! The Tiny Trevs live on. The psyllids d...Guess what! The Tiny Trevs live on. The psyllids did a stack of damage but in the last year they've magically "gone". It's now June 2014 and the two Trev hedges leading up to the front door are thriving quite nicely in fact.<br /><br />The other Trev hedge down the side passage are fairly crook looking but the plants themselves are well and truly alive. I have decided to not maintain these side passage Trevs as hedges, but to let them live on as plants with an overbearing big brother of a Cootamundra wattle making life hard for them. But the Trevs keep on sprouting new growth and poking through.<br /><br />So, while you had bad luck with the Trevs, for the record I think I should report in that my Tiny Trevs are tough little survivors. They aren't raging successes, either, but the plants themselves live on - not one of them has carked it.<br /><br />Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14653345793213312242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797396120087729156.post-17338816389788573162012-12-16T15:39:45.490+11:002012-12-16T15:39:45.490+11:00Well there you go Jamie. I am not surprised they d...Well there you go Jamie. I am not surprised they did not last.<br /><br />Sorry to hear about your Tiny Trevs - dwarf lilly pilly - but hopefully these posts will save people from planting them and then finding they are not stayers like many native species people are conned into buying. As for wattles, in Sydney they come with borers built in as a free extra when you buy them. <br /><br />Just plant some of the full size japanese box in the place of the Tiny Trevs and you will be surprised how quickly they will grow if you have not used them before. Then you will have a nice hedge again which will not only last and look great with its beautiful foliage but will out live you. Just toss a few bags of compost into the soil before planting because they love it.<br /><br /> You have a really nice garden.<br /><br />I don't believe in using garden chemical sprays and the like and I NEVER use them. If the plants you have cannot survive without being sprayed with chemicals then in my opinion you are growing the wrong plants in your garden. Pull them out and plant the tough good looking ones. <br /><br />I have a stack of beautiful gardenias in my garden which a lot of people spray with various chemicals to ward off one or 2 nasties. Mine all survived very nicely without using anything thank you. Keep them growing healthily with correct watering and a bit of fertiiser now and then, a couple of clippings a year and you do not need any chemicals. <br /><br />I noticed you mentioned in your post :<br /> "In the background is a Murraya paniculata, one of Sydney's best hedging plants. This tough specimen is in full shade for four whole months in winter and never complains. Then over summer all it gets is blazing hot afternoon sun every day. A wondrous plant."<br /><br />Good luck with that because I heard Graham Ross on his radio Gardening show this morning talking about a new problem with these which is killing off some of these plants in home gardens. He said he has a heap of them in his garden and is now worried so is watching them closely weekly. They are a great plant but if they are going to fail due to disease then I would not use them now. <br /><br />Cheers all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797396120087729156.post-88470810039261326422012-12-16T09:45:07.645+11:002012-12-16T09:45:07.645+11:00Thanks, Anonymous, for sharing those thoughts, whi...Thanks, Anonymous, for sharing those thoughts, which I somewhat agree with. However, this post you commented on just this sunny December 2012 morning was written back in 2008, so it's more than four years later and the Trevs are still here.<br /><br />Well, the Tiny Trevs are still alive but they are now a bit ugly, and I'll be pulling them out in autumn next year, because the psyllids have won. For a while I stayed on top of the psyllids by using Confidor, but I stopped using Confidor altogether in my front garden two years ago, due to growing evidence that it damages populations of other beneficial insects, including bees. Once I stopped the Confidor, the Trevs went downhill, but the tough little things refuse to die.<br /><br />As for other natives, I see several of them as the highest maintenance plants I have here. They need constant clipping to stop looking scraggy, and their lifespan is short: about five years seems a good run with the grevilleas I grow.<br /><br />However, I do have an Acacia cognata (one of those weeping foliage-style little wattles) in a pot, and it's not only beautiful but the sheer fact of keeping the fussy thing alive is like a little badge of honour. .<br /><br />And my groundcover Acacia baileyana is the most vigorous, beautiful, healthy monster of a plant in the whole garden, so I don't agree with a blanket condemnation of natives.<br /><br />Think about it for a moment: all the roses, hibiscus, azaleas, camellias etc etc etc from Europe, Japan and China have had some centuries of careful development as garden-worthy plants. No wonder they are so tough and reliable.<br /><br />On the other hand, the development of natives for gardens is in its infancy, just a couple of decades of development so far. Give them time and they will keep on getting better, which is already what is happening with some of them, although I do concede there are many, many dud native plants on the market to make gardening frustrating for folk like you and me.<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />Jamie<br />Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14653345793213312242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797396120087729156.post-9044287584305041862012-12-16T09:20:14.966+11:002012-12-16T09:20:14.966+11:00Good luck with the Tiny Trev hedges mate.
I had ...Good luck with the Tiny Trev hedges mate. <br /> I had over 10 metres of these as a border hedge and they were doing just fine, getting well watered etc. They were about 10 years old (at about 80 cm in ht.) and growing very well requiring trimming about every 4 or 5 months to keep them neat. Then after trimming last year they all died at once fairly suddenly. Just dropped the leaves gradually and died (and it was not due to the lilly pilly psyllid as I did not have that insect). When the plants attempted new growth the leaves would look like something was eating them. The close planted rows of english box immediately behind the dead tiny trev hedges are very healthy and still growing beautifully. When I cut back one of the apparently dead hedge rows so only the trunks of the 5 tiny trevs in that row remained, leaves started to sprout from the trunks. So not yet totally dead it seems but those trunks will be removed.<br />Never again will I plant any Aust natives (either trees or shrubs)in my garden. After many years of experience with natives it's a waste of time and effort and in the end they mostly wind up looking terrible/scraggy or die because (other than large native trees) many have a very limited life or get borers in them etc etc.<br /><br />Various varieties of Box - like Japanese box, make wonderful hedge or row plants, grow like weeds, look terrific, respond well to clipping and are mostly as tough as nails. I have lots of them, some over 20 years old and looking great. None I planted (about 100 by now) EVER died and that includes the english box.<br /><br />Don't waste your time growing hedges of tiny trev because they will not last no matter how well you care for them - as I found out.<br /><br />Cancel your newspaper mate. Some moron tossing a heavy paper into your lovely manicured hedges every morning will soon ruin them.<br /><br /><br /><br />Location: Killara, SydneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797396120087729156.post-67961781641336771512011-09-05T11:45:47.067+10:002011-09-05T11:45:47.067+10:00Has Nathan considered using the letter box? Beauti...Has Nathan considered using the letter box? Beautiful garden. Wonderful to see your success with natives. - Tracey (Hort Student Ryde Tafe)Traceynoreply@blogger.com