A BEACH SETTING

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A BEACH SETTING

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These are false cypress. purchased in punnets as starters 4.5 yrs ago. planted into a poly box as a group and clip and grown. never seen wire. repotted last month and thinned out today. :D

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Nice one ant. It would be even better if you build your own lanscape slap using some builder cement and sand. Then you could have a real nice beach setting :)
Otherwise, the trees look great without wires. I'm impressed.
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Looks great :!:
I like what you've done..
What kinda size are they?
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thanks fellas; kev a whole scenery would be great. might do that if i dont end up selling it.
scythe they sit btween 18 and 20cm. :D
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Nice, a little rock or abit of ground cover of some sort would top this one off for me! :)
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Hi Antonio, a couple of points, just some first impressions after a 60 second look.

To me the placement looks a bit.....evenly spaced.....and not cohesive as a group planting due to this. There doesn't appear to be enough height variation between the trees nor is there mush variation in caliper. The RHS tree reminds me a bit of a pitchfork, perhaps you could remove one of the lower branches.

Not an east species to work with though, I look forward to seeing it's progress. Was there a reason that you didn't wire the trees?

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hey MM, i agree with all that you have pointed out and that is why i titled it beach setting. like a bunch of cypress's at the beach that were looked after by the council and the weather. :lol: i guess i have just never got round to wiring this one and always thought the foliage is too fragile and close together. lazy on my behalf ( for this one). with some tweaking theres lots of room to further improve this group, so im hoping some one else takes on the task. thanks for you're input MM. :D
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Re: A BEACH SETTING

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Any time Ant.

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