New pot layered Wisteria

[alpineart]

I needed this out of the way so i decided to sever the runner and remove the plant

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so i can pave the step it has sat on for the last 18 months .It was originally planted by the owner/builder of the house i own .I removed the original plant with an excavator 15 years ago and it re sprouted about 5 years back ,constantly trimmed , run over by the car and damaged as it was growing across the drive way .I didn't particularly want it to take over the veranda again i decided to layer it using the pot layer method i have used on pines and Maples on a single runner .I wound the runner

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around a piece of treated dead wood

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to create something a little different .

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It will eventually fuse together and with a base of 80-100mm

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it should be something a little unique as far as wisteria's go .Now all i have to do is strip the cladding off over Winter and try to salvage the original shoot from the trunk i thought i removed all those years ago

Cheers Alpineart

[kcpoole]

Where do you get all the wonderful ideas
This one is a bloody awesome idea

Ken

[alpineart]

Hi kc , I wasn't hiding behind the door when brains were handed out , I like things a little unusual , out of the ordinary so i go out of my way to create that in most things i do .Even in Carpentry i had idea's that went against the grain so to speak . Mother nature is a good inspiration , jungles , alps , rainforests , even the normal bush can have some brilliant examples of the forces of nature . Can't be part of the lemming syndrome , man that would bore me to tears .. I will end up one day with a normal wisteria when i remove the parent plant , i was going to do another wound around style yesterday but the runner snapped so i trimmed them all back in readiness for the winter removal .

Still can't believe this sprouted some 10 years after the original plant was removed with an excavator , this place was a naked canvas within a week of moving in . We moved 260 tonnes of rock , shale and dirt to create the terraces, i would like to get a machine back to re-arrange another 100 tonnes to suit my little hobby .

Cheers Alpine

[MattA]

Still can't believe this sprouted some 10 years after the original plant was removed with an excavator , this place was a naked canvas within a week of moving in . We moved 260 tonnes of rock , shale and dirt to create the terraces, i would like to get a machine back to re-arrange another 100 tonnes to suit my little hobby .

Cheers Alpine

Gee I wish I was you, I have dug & moved about 200tonnes of soil & the same of recycled concrete to build my gardens.... by hand

[alpineart]

Hi MattA . An excavator costs around $100 per hour for a 10 tonne machine , in 8 hours it can excavate 250 tonnes of soil and rock then replace it where its required with no effort from me except to make sure the design is correct from the start . Now mate your've gotta be plugged in and switched on or it all too much like "Hard Yakka". I work smarter not harder , learn't my lesson years ago and still paying the penalty for doing so .

Cheers Alpine