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Bareroot Laurel

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  • #32
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    RubyGirl wrote: »
    I like the picture's paddy puts up, got some great ideas from them tbh, and he also post's some good advice. Now back onto laurels because I need to plant some aswell.


    I live to give.:D


  • #33
    BullBauld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭BullBauld


    Bareroot Laurel on sale at Mulvey's Garden Centre just outside Athlone. €1:60 each or 100 for €150.
    Don't know how big they are, just saw the sign outside on way to work.


  • #34
    tommycahir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭tommycahir


    Oldtree wrote: »
    I used grass clippings mulch for this up to 3 inches thick, but do not allow it to settle around the base of the trunk as it can ringbark/damage bark by heat from composting or smother breathing above ground bark.
    I did this until the hedge got too thick and I had to find somthing else to do with the clippings.

    Hi Oldtree, I am very interested in the use of grass clippings to keep weeds down, I had always thought that this was not advisable as they clippings would turn into mush (for want of better description). Are you using just the normal clippings from a lawnmower to control the weeds?


  • #35
    Oldtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    yes, it does turn to a bit of a mush but during the summer the top dries off to form a kind of cap which keeps it in place, but it was for under a hedge.


  • #36
    Squiggle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭Squiggle


    I've always found futureforests good to deal with. They are taking orders now for bare root hedging, available from the end of October /early November.


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  • #37
    paulztag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭paulztag


    Thanks for all the recommendations..


  • #38
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Squiggle wrote: »
    I've always found futureforests good to deal with. They are taking orders now for bare root hedging, available from the end of October /early November.


    As are PJ Larkin and sons.:)

    Next day delievery too.


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