Just a quick posting of the privet I collected today. I found a nice stash of them around 100m from my house in a shruby creek area. This is the first privet I have collected and styled, I know they are pretty hardy so I'm hoping it will pull through OK
It was a pretty hard dig, its fairly heavy clay around my area and being dry it was pretty hard to get through. It looks as though it has plenty of surface roots, thats in my advantage. I probably could have chopped back the roots a bit more but being my first I thought I will give it a little to bounce back with. It had a good 30min soak in Seasol while I made the pot then another 30min soak once it was potted. I now have it in almost full shade and time to let it rest. It took a bit of a beating when digging it out and cleaning the roots up. I gt of as much of the clay around the roots as I could but it was pretty tough work, hopefully it will be OK.
I think my overall styling will be to cut out the middle (phallic looking) brack and create a twin trunk. Each major brach will create two leader from a V iff all goes to plan, I will put a vert up if I find a bit more time.
Anyway here it is:
The Pot is 450mm x 500mm x 100mm deep
Cheers
