A few cotoneasters I collected from work

[Josh]

I had to clean out a hazel hedge we have at work. It was full of blackberries, holy and cotoneasters. The cotoneasters I pretty much pulled out with the ripper on the tractor. I had them in a pile to go to the fire and thought they were actually some good stumps amongst them so threw them in the car ready to take home. I then remembered I was going straight to my parents in Echuca. I gave them a spray and then when I arrived in Echuca and put them on the ground and covered with a wet sheet (best I could do). I potted them up the next morning thinking it was probably a waste of time. Well they survived, all of them so now I have cotoneasters everywhere Will have to pick through them and thin them out a bit I think.

These photos were taken a week ago and they are now pushing growth flat out.

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Another

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and another

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and another

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and another

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and another

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and another bigger one

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There were several smaller ones as well. I also dug another bigger one today (photos will follow when potted). Again time to recover and grow.

Josh

[alpineart]

Hi Josh , mate i collected a few of these 12 months ago and planted them into the grow beds , now i need to collect them from the grow beds before the roots take hold in the good soil . They have raged like the weeds they are .

Cheers . Alpine

[bodhidharma]

See Josh, you are starting to develop the magic Bonsai touch. The rewards are that you get lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots ...........of trees.

[Josh]

Hi Josh , mate i collected a few of these 12 months ago and planted them into the grow beds , now i need to collect them from the grow beds before the roots take hold in the good soil . They have raged like the weeds they are .

Cheers . Alpine

Yeah Ian I would put these in the same class as weeds but a mate recons they die if he looks at them so not sure what he's doing wrong

See Josh, you are starting to develop the magic Bonsai touch. The rewards are that you get lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots ...........of trees.

By the way Bhodi, I believe your gracing us with your presence on the 21st of this month at Waverly, looking forward to it.

Cheers
Josh

[Gav]

Hey Josh, I read in a write up about these that if you trim them to give your tools a really good clean with metho because they contain a toxin that is highly poisonous to some other plants.

Just thought I would mention it in case you did not know.

Gav