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Post by April on Mar 31, 2010 17:31:36 GMT
Hopefully April will post a photo I will when i can pluck up the courage to to out in the cold.... A bay tree is one of those "top" heavy trees that you see outside the front door of houses, usually one on either side... also, its leaf is the one you get in your chicken balti... ;D
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Post by Queenie on Mar 31, 2010 18:23:59 GMT
I didn't think we had the variety of bay here that grows abroad.. You can use what grows abroad as a herb, but what's here is not.. Of course I could be completely wrong, I often am.. I'm asking the question actually, rather than stating a fact.
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Post by chewchew on Mar 31, 2010 19:35:41 GMT
Don't you have google? I'd say it's a bay laurel. you have no idea how incredibly lazy I am. just back from the hols and barely able to move
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Post by Queenie on Mar 31, 2010 20:02:56 GMT
You poor pet, just back from hols. How awful for you, oh dear how sad... never mind!!!
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Post by chewchew on Mar 31, 2010 20:25:52 GMT
tell me about it loc. its hard being me.
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Post by sugarloves on Mar 31, 2010 21:08:04 GMT
o lord did you forget to bring back the sunshine chew.
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Post by chewchew on Mar 31, 2010 21:15:09 GMT
i did I'm afraid. but i needed a break from 32 degree weather.
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Post by joepublic on Apr 1, 2010 0:03:45 GMT
I took a photo of April's front door before the frost
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Post by sugarloves on Apr 1, 2010 21:08:23 GMT
well done joe nice bay trees. anyone ever seen the plastic ones at the church for weddings they usually hired out and i think they just look yuck, i think real is the best deal.
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Post by joepublic on Apr 6, 2010 18:11:25 GMT
I see the cordyline trees took a terrible hammering this winter and most are gone rotten at the tops and up to a few feet down. They look a bit like palm trees. If the rotten sections are cut off they will sprout again.
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Post by April on Apr 6, 2010 19:06:51 GMT
I see the cordyline trees took a terrible hammering this winter and most are gone rotten at the tops and up to a few feet down. They look a bit like palm trees. If the rotten sections are cut off they will sprout again. i wish my bays looked as healthy as those in the pic.... joe you must have been snooping around my house a few "years" ago.... sugarloves maybe i will borrow the plastic church ones if mine don't recover, i put a feed on them at the weekend so time will tell.... I did notice the cordyline trees really took a battering with the snow.. thankfully mine survived,however i have noticed others in our estate in a very sad way... just a pole coming out of the ground.... no leaves, will they really recover Joe?
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Post by joepublic on Apr 6, 2010 21:06:38 GMT
They will recover once all the rotten bits are cut off, it worked for Mr Angry. It was the below -7C temps that got to the cordyline.
The bay trees will start to recover now that the temps are rising, the feed would do nothing otherwise.
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Post by April on Apr 7, 2010 10:12:20 GMT
what do you mean the feed would do nothing otherwise? I thought the feed helps the trees grow.....
ye know like if you take vitamins they help you get healthier if you are run down....!!!!
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Post by joepublic on Apr 7, 2010 10:49:36 GMT
The trees won't do much until they decide the weather is warm enough and then they can use the feed otherwise the feed is not used.
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Post by April on Apr 7, 2010 12:26:42 GMT
so does that mean if i feed them when its cold that the feed would "go off " if the weather didn't get warm within a number of days?
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