Paulpash
Masterpiece
My wife, who is prone to naming just about everything, calls this one The Lizard. It started as a 2 leafed seedling that lodged itself in an inch of dirt by a dip close to a wall probably twenty years ago now. I have abused this little guy multiple times, especially when I was just starting out - continual pruning, stupid changes in angle that I later cut out and started again, numerous dig ups and replanting in the garden. I didn't know then that cotoneaster don't thicken that well, especially if you keep messing with them.
I tried out my first thread grafting experiments and use of sacrifice branches on this one too which luckily saved it from a fungal attack about 10 years back. In order to save it I had to trunk chop it back below the infection site to the low sacrifice I had grafted on it and basically start over from scratch. Essentially, the vast majority of the tree is a thread graft. For the more observant there's a definite change of colour from the older silvery trunk (first 2 inches above the roots) to the less mature bark of the thread graft. You can still see the remnants of the hole the drill made (I'm not sure if this is an entry or exit wound) in the pic below. Anyway, enough of the jibber jabber here are the pics
I'm off now to listen to 'I will survive' by Gloria Gaynor .....
I tried out my first thread grafting experiments and use of sacrifice branches on this one too which luckily saved it from a fungal attack about 10 years back. In order to save it I had to trunk chop it back below the infection site to the low sacrifice I had grafted on it and basically start over from scratch. Essentially, the vast majority of the tree is a thread graft. For the more observant there's a definite change of colour from the older silvery trunk (first 2 inches above the roots) to the less mature bark of the thread graft. You can still see the remnants of the hole the drill made (I'm not sure if this is an entry or exit wound) in the pic below. Anyway, enough of the jibber jabber here are the pics
I'm off now to listen to 'I will survive' by Gloria Gaynor .....
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