Bay pruning - blob to beauty - Joe's Country Garden January 2024
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- I've been talking about pruning back the bay for weeks now. Finally I have a free weekend, so here's how I prune back the bay from blob to structural feature in the garden. It's now a multi-stemmed beauty and I am delighted.
I do agree that it is beautiful now Joe! I am so looking forward to seeing the progress of your garden.
Wow! What an improvement not only to the bay but to the whole area around it 👍 I am so looking forward to seeing the rest of the changes you are embarking on in your beautiful garden!
I’m one of them that try’s to avoid pruning but I’ve got to admit it does look good. 😂👍👏👏👏👏
The bay looks so wonderful. It completely changed how that part of the garden looks and feels. I am picturing it on a foggy, frosty winter morning and how gorgeous it will look in that light.
I love how you bond with your property. This job is so satisfying to watch!!! Thank you for letting us be part of your journey.
Great transformation Joel. Can really appreciate it as a tree now. Great work.
What a difference! Now it is more a focal point, and the trunks are beautiful. That gap will fill in, in no time : ). This time of year is a great time to bond with your garden for sure. This brings me joy being able to tag along for all of this. Thank you Joe!
Looks amazing. Love your channel and looking forward to following your progress. Hi from Canada 🇨🇦
Beautifully done! Absolutely the right decision and brilliant to see it take shape. Such fun! Keep the videos coming. Living vicariously through your acreage and generous videos.
It really does look SO much better! Well done, you,
Wow what a beautiful centerpiece! Glad you're keeping safety first which is my training!
Look fab! I can picture spring bulbs and woodland plants underneath 😊
My favourite job in the garden is pruning! Love how it looks now Joe!
Love the multi trunk exposed, it draws your eye right to it!
That is a triumph Joe , it looks beautiful!! I’m really enjoying following your progress- thanks 👏🏻
Oh yeah, that really needed a prune.. you’ve made a huge improvement.. lovely herb to cook with as well as evergreen structure. Great advice about mature specimens hardiness 👍
Love it - stunning sculptural shape
Good job it looks so much better.
From green blob to sculptural beauty 💚
That’s a gorgeous job of pruning.
That has made a huge difference. It is a beautiful tree
wow, it looks amazing! inspiring job!
Great Job!!! And what a mass of brenches. Work still goes on
Hello Joe,I'm so excited and happy for you,I'm looking forward to see what happens this year.
Looks superb - it's like a totally different tree now.
Vast improvement
Totally opens up that spot in the garden
Awesome! that pruning really opened it up and shows the light and air movement in the future too! Well done Joe!
Absolutely gorgeous. Love the transformation. I have pruned back trees and shrubs in my small garden to open up the structure. I love when I look out kitchen window and see the results. Everyone needs a good haircut. Love the delight you take in the end result... smiling here 😊
Great video Joe !! Very informative !! Great to watch a gardening video this weekend, Nova Scotia is getting 60-80 cm of snow !!!
Hi Joe, i took a chance and did just this three year ago, and was thrilled with the result. A Beautiful evergreen tree.
A fantastic pruning job. It looks great now.
Wow! What a difference. That’s is beautiful Joe. Looking forward to seeing what you have planned next.
Thank You, for a perfect inspiration. I am cleaning up my Bayleaf trees and might just copy you. I am one of those, that does not know where to stop 🙏
Lovely result! We raised the canopy on a very large (4-5m tall) photinia red robin which was definitely a blob. The next thing for us to think about is how to underplant it to complement its elegant limbs, I'm thinking maybe a hardy geranium, like geranium phaem
Thanks- Phaeum Raven is a good choice
Glorious prune job! What a gorgeous tree! And I had no idea there were ladders with adjustable feet - that's just what I need for my property!!! :D
Lovely tree! Good job!
What a transformation! I have a magnolia tree that has crossing branches leaning into each other, one branch should go but it will leave a huge gap. I cleared the bottom branches a few years ago, what a difference! Loving your channel Joe🙋♀️
Brilliant job done looks ten times better already and helps you to view the garden in a totally different way now.
amazing job on the pruning !! cant wait to see the rest of the garden work to be done
Well done Joe. Looks fabulous
I did the same thing to my bay ,mine is half the size of yours ,but also made it a wonderful feature and the top really filled out ,and it also made a great place to get some shade in the summer to sit under :)
It’s a great job 🎉well done , my lollipop bays dried out under porch canopy in the sun , so I put them in my north facing back garden for a year and they recovered enough now I have to raise the top to make them match again!
Wow, amazing transformation. You are sooo clever!.. have just finished pruning apple trees on my allotment. Dead, diseased and dying out, crossed branches out, then branches pruned in half! Not sure that’s right but it seems to work for me!
Hi Joe with the height of that you should have cloud pruned it ha ha.
Great job! Just subscribed look forward to the progress of you your garden.
I must admit I would have removed The Blob!!… they are like giant weeds here in the South… but having seen the results… I think you have done an amazing job! That’s why your a garden designer and I’m not…some excellent firewood there too…
That is very satisfying and the result!
Hope you have a commercial chipper for all this pruning. A gorgeous tree! The tidying will probably take longer than the pruning.
Wow, she looks so elegant now 💚Dead hedge time with the branches?
What a fantastic job you did with this tree, it looks absolutely marvelous! And now you have bay leaves for the rest of your life too haha ;)
Save some of the leaves for cooking! Looks great!
No shortage for that! Thanks for watching
Joe it looks fabulous much better, can I do this to a rhododendron which is about the same size in width and about 5mt tall .
That looks very nice, an inspiration for me as I have a Bay to prune this week that has outgrown its position, I would also like to make a feature of it like yours as it was once a feature in the walled garden I look after.
Good, go for it…and thanks for watching
Looks great! While you were talking at the end, I couldn’t help but note the tree over your other shoulder. Looks rough, as does a lot of the fruit trees in your garden. What is the plan for those? ❤😊
Lose some and get some back in shape…
thats a lot better
Hmmm..first I think these bay trees should carry the same warning as mint…will spread, unless contained.
Planted in the 60’s we have a similar sized bay, which we have had similarly pruned…it did not put on a ‘few’ suckers, it sprouted a forest. Roots crept underground in a network that has defied and bent forks and broken pickaxes. It is a now brick bordered bed where the sprouts make a skirt about 4ft around, which gardeners refuse to tackle.
No kind of killer, including brush killer, has any effect on the waxy leaves.
In short…..I would welcome the thing being dynamited out of the ground….were it not so close to the neighbours fence, I would happily set fire to it……so take my warning….don’t plant one in the ground
Hi Joe, I'd be interested to help you in the garden, if you need any volunteers - depending on your location in Dorset. Anthony (Bournemouth) 🐗🌲🌺
Stop! You are standing on a gold mine! In the US, bay leaves for cooking are quite costly. Pick the leaves, dry them, and sell them. Put your name on the bottle and sell them for more than in the local markets. Who wouldn't want your picture on a spice bottle in their kitchen.