You`ve got a CHOISYA !!!!!!!!!
By stroller
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This is a photo of my Choisya “Sundance” a lovely yellow evergreen shrub it was taken from the front bedroom window, shown here righthand side of pic, and was rather a nice specimen,
that is until the severe frosts of last winter got hold of it. So this spring I cut away all of the foliage and was left with just a “V” shaped stump – here it is to the left of picture by the fence.
I just didn`t have the umph to get the roots out at that time and am so glad now that it was left for some time, as you can see from the next pic it started sprouting new growth and is looking good.
On the same day as stripping Sundance I decided to prune my other Choisya “Aztec Perle”
and as I do from time to time I just popped a piece in the nearest available space and said ok then just do or die (you can tell that I am obviously a novice gardener) and here we are:-
A well rooted new plant – so it obviously did – it made its choisya.
1 Sep, 2011
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Ah you obviously have green fingers Stroller that looks amazing:)
1 Sep, 2011
clever you ~ they look really good!!
1 Sep, 2011
Lovely blog..see Enuch is sitting there with his mate getting in on the action! :)
1 Sep, 2011
Is it not Enoch???Pixi.
I lost my Sundance this year due to severe frosts.
1 Sep, 2011
It looks as if Pixi has given poor Enoch the chop Grannyb.
1 Sep, 2011
Its amazing what you can achieve by chopping things up and pushing bits into the earth! :)) lovely, well done!
1 Sep, 2011
Plants never cease to amaze me.
1 Sep, 2011
Do you think it was a Barnsley chop or a Chelsea chop Stroller.
Karensusan, not sure Enoch the Enuch would agree with you on that one.LOL
1 Sep, 2011
Stroller, you said "It was rather a nice specimen" ... it's fabulous in the first photo ... and by the looks of things it will be as good as that again! ... The Aztec Perle is thriving ... well done you ... enjoyed this blog ... :o)))
1 Sep, 2011
Oh lol SOrry..oh well you should know my typing by now lolol..Sorry Enoch!
2 Sep, 2011
I did just the same with a bottlebrush Stroller, chopped it right back but couldn't get the roots out, weeding the other day and its resprouted from the base, really didn't think it'd come back, a nice surprise after all the large shrubs I did loose.
2 Sep, 2011
Amazing isn`t it Simbad I`ve bought 2 bottlebrush at different times and both have died on me.
Got to be the Chelsea chop Grannyb, you can`t afford a Barnsley chop these days, at the butchers last week I rashly said 2 barnsley chops please, £7.95 gulp..............
Shirley, I got my neighbour Paul to dig it up for me this morning, I decided I didn`t like it - thats just typical of me.lol..
2 Sep, 2011
Nooo! .. how could you Stroller? ... After it had made the effort to come back for you ... lol! ... :o)))
2 Sep, 2011
My Sundance Choisya has taken a lot of punishment over the years, as it grows so dominant and gets chopped back drastically. At the moment it's on stilts but is making new growth at the bottom. Not sure I want that. Just the top growth for privacy.
9 Sep, 2011
just seen this how lovely to get new plants ............ i do that as well and love it wen it grows !! well dun
24 Sep, 2011
Both my green Choisyas have had a gentle hair cut today.....sticking out over the path to the garden shed. They are very pliable shrubs. They seem not to know when to stop flowering. Still thinking about what to do with Sundance. Top off and bottom allowed to grow up or what?
26 Sep, 2011
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18 Sep, 2011
I have Sundance as well, have had it for quite a number of years, and every year I chop it about and make it the shape I want and it never seems to mind. It does get a bit of frost burn every winter, but I just chop it all off.
Well done on getting the other one to root.
1 Sep, 2011