hi, I have an eleangus silver berry shrub but I’d like to grow it with just a bushy top for privacy, can I prune all the lower branches to do this please
I have an eleagnus quicksilver that has grown as a standard. I originally planted a E. silverberry and a E. quicksilver very close together. Many years later I decided I didn't like the silverberry, so I removed it and found the quicksilver happily growing in the middle of it. It had turned itself into a standard, and also managed to twist its stems rather attractively. It does try and send out shoots from the main stem, but I rub them off or cut them off.
So I don't see why you couldn't do the same with your silverberry
I post a pic the right way round now this site re-orients them.... grrr 😠 it never used to happen
The flower pic was from a couple of years ago. They have a lovely honey scent
Billericay - Essex
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I originally planted a E. silverberry and a E. quicksilver very close together.
Many years later I decided I didn't like the silverberry, so I removed it and found the quicksilver happily growing in the middle of it.
It had turned itself into a standard, and also managed to twist its stems rather attractively.
It does try and send out shoots from the main stem, but I rub them off or cut them off.
So I don't see why you couldn't do the same with your silverberry
I post a pic the right way round now this site re-orients them.... grrr 😠 it never used to happen
The flower pic was from a couple of years ago. They have a lovely honey scent
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
For some bizarre reason it doesn't accept the *.png format either.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.