Re: OT: Training English Ivy
From: Nancy Pocklington <npocklington@accunet.net>
On 10 March 2000,
John Montgomery wrote:
>
> From: John Montgomery <monashee@junction.net>
>
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > From: Nancy Pocklington <npocklington@accunet.net>
> >
> > Hi, Dana--Irv and I made a wisteria tree by training vines up the
> > trunk with plain old steel fencing staples until they got high enough
> > to grab the branches themselves.
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Ouch!!!! That sends shivers through me. What I hear is
> the blood-curdling sound when a saw blade hits those
> staples.
> Cabinet-makers who do one-off projects are often on the
> look out for back yard trees which have blown down or are
> being removed. Such trees often are treasure houses of
> beautiful grains and patterns.
> Discretion has led me, however, to consign the bottom 8' or
> so to the fireplace. Burning such wood seems like an act
> of vandalism to me but the personal danger or at least the
> expense of repairs, leave me no choice.
>
> Please, mark well any place where you insert metal into a
> tree, and then remove it as soon as the need is past.
> Better yet try to think of an altenate method..
>
> Cheers
>
> John Montgomery
> Vernon BC Zone 5
>
> Hi, John Montgomery and Dana Brown: He's got a very good point,
Dana; pay heed. I should have mentioned that precaution when I spoke
earlier today. Irv says he removed the staples years ago, both for
the sake of the tree and to avoid strangling the vines as they grew.
We later called in tree removal men and had them remove all of the tree
above 15 feet, leaving a "stump" that tall and a foot and a half thick
to support the vine. I've seen 20-year-old wisterias literally lift
their trellises out of the ground, and I don't think that's going to
happen here! The tree, by the way, was one of those Chinese elms that
draws pesky bugs, so we didn't mourn its passing. (I should add that
this tree stands just north of the side-yard IRIS bed.) Our game plan
was that the vine would overgrow any regrowth on the stump, but they're
still battling it out.
--
Nancy
Central Illinois, Mid West, Zone 5, USA
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