I'm absolutely star-struck (nothing to do with celebrity and everything to do with your magnificent garden) by your garden, your home (outdoors i.e. door and window colour and style), garden finials, urns, planters... I'm absolutely smitten with all of it! Love your sense of style!
Me too. I must admit I haven't heard of Bunny until 2020 😊 hooked on her videos since and I couldn't believe my eyes when I actually got to meet her at our local Jubilee party this year (she was the judge of the 'Best decorated house in the village ') 😊 that's when I realised I'm completely star struck 😂😂
The timing of this is uncanny. A week from today I get the keys to a tiny beach cottage with an overgrown garden that hasn’t been touched in two years, on which there is a large, beautiful Pittosporum tobira and a couple of young cork oaks, not to mention shrubby mimosas and strawberry trees, all of which I’ve been thinking I’d like to turn into multi-stems but wasn’t sure if I should risk it. Now I believe I will. And after that I’ll come back to your gravel video (with pétanque in mind), and then baseless pots (to lend height to young citrus). You are the answer to my garden wishlist, and I am so grateful. Also looking forward to the next video in the garden design series! Huge thanks 🙏🏻
Sounds like a great project - I would also be nervous! Maybe prune in stages so it's not a shock for the trees and also gives you a chance to "get your eye in" as to how much to thin out in the long run. I've always wanted a strawberry tree! Have fun :)
Bunny, That was a really useful video about creating handsome multi stemmed trees from shrubs, and scruffy saplings and even fairly mature, and, perhaps, unattractive groups of overgrown stems growing closely together. I love your enthusiasm and confidence that your vision is going to succeed in producing an improved, attractive and healthy shape. I have two volunteer laurel shrubs that I will be tackling this winter/spring; I need the height for volume and screening but I want the ground space for growing. Evie😢
I have the same feeling as Aspasia watching this film - and also a warm feeling toward Bunny - her personality, guts, intelligence, holistic vision including cattle, pigs, landscape, forms that echo and support the rhythms around her. The whole "Shebang". Thank you Bunny, for your wonderful contribution. Someday I'd like to come to Britain to see some of your work in the real. (I have to retire first - I'm a nurse and I never really get away!) Warmest regards Jennie
Bunny, you are so generous with your time and talents! I so enjoy your videos and years of knowledge! And I love seeing all the beauty at your fabulous estate! Thank you! 💖
estate?!! The garden is only half an acre and meadow and woodland about 12 acres max! Its a small holding I suppose, but thanks for your kind comments, but dont what anyone to get the idea its grand, its not!!!🐰
Nothing more satisfying than turning a boring shrub, that's been cut into hedging, into an interesting multi stemmed specimen or raised the canopy . I've successfully done it with many shrubs in clients gardens
This is such a brilliant video, thanks for pointing out how versatile and decorative multi stem trees are. You're doing such a brilliant educational job , no redundant information, precise and well prepared in a nutshell! This video in particular made me go out and start making changes to a couple of shrubs in my garden. Many thanks!
I try to get my rose of Sharon to grow as multi stem tree. Current it has seven stems and all pretty slim and tall. I saw people cut them back like 30% of the height and it grow back next year. Very resilient.
Trees, brush or bushes Bunny? In my case after moving in just before the COVID-19 pandemic got declared there was at the time way more than just one multie stems for me to work on too. Some of them 4 inches across.
I love your videos, but I just have to ask a non gardening question. Perhaps some of your followers will know also. What kind of garden boots do you wear? I need something waterproof, but not too hot?? I love the tall ones you have on in this video. Once again, thank you for your wonderful informative videos!!
These are Chameaux I love them as a) they have two year guarantee and the amount I use them I have gone through inferior wellies in a year b) they are neoprene lined so very snug but don't seem to make your feet sweat which if Im wearing all day is pretty high on my list of priorities c) finally they have straps at top and as have thin legs they don't flap around. I can't find any other wellies so good and with 2 year guarantee. Exact style is Vierzonord. Expensive but if you work in gardening is classified as work wear for tax purposes. hope this helps! 🐰
this is a new concept to me. I purchased a large number of larger Japanese maples last year and then some fabulous pots last week. What type of pots do you use for the baseless bottoms? I am in Maryland zone 7. Very interested in growing large trees in pots but the idea of not watering so often is very appealing.
@@hilltopbrenda we used those fiberglass type of pots I think they are 24 inch diameter Keep in mind these pots are there to stay ours were in place for 16 years We planted these pots behind/in between these juniper bushings. We also put 3 gazing in between the bushes and all you could see as the ball sticking out from the bushes. I had also planted early blooming tulips in each of the pots which bloomed before the maples broke dormancy It was really beautiful until the junipers started dying and we had no choice but to remove the pots and bushes Two of the three potted Japanese maples live at our neighbors The third I kept and put it in the ground
@@hilltopbrenda you can check Bunny’s videos on baseless pots. ua-cam.com/video/i_jXvxLIZkQ/v-deo.html She also has a follow up video where she answers questions from viewers.
I heard about Bunny via Garden Answer in the USA and came over to check her channel. What a gift that I happened on this video about multi-stem trees! We have a lilac that is approximately 30 years old which I planted at the corner of our house. It is easily 2 stories high now and we have been trying to figure out if we can cut it way back to manage its size. Do any of you know if we can do that with a 30-year old multi-trunk lilac, and - if so - how far down can we safely trim it?
The problem with lilac is that it is often grafted so if you cut it hard back you encourage the rootstock to grow. If it has several main stems I think you could try cutting the biggest to the base and then in a years time the remaining biggest then you could let another smaller shoot to grow up in its place and so on. Hope this helps! 🐇
@@bunnyguinness Thank you so much for your reply. The lilac we have has not been grafted because it was a shoot that we dug up from next to a friend’s very mature lilac. We have had it in our garden for a little over 30 years and it has thrived. Do you think that since it was not grafted, it would have a chance of surviving a deeper prune? We don’t want to destroy it, but it definitely needs to be brought under control somehow. I’ve always loved having a lilac tree as it is reminiscent of my childhood home, but it needs some help.
Just get a frost proof terracotta (assuming you are in a frost prone zone) and cut the bottom off with a disc cutter, or make up a timber one with no bottom or get a metal worker to make a baseless open cylinder For you. Hope this helps🐇
I think the rough bark rondos tend to regenerate from hard cutting back but the smooth barked ones are more difficult. Maybe cut back tentively first and just see the reaction? 🐇
I use ramial, young shredded wood from branches less than 70mm diameter, I leave in a pile for 3 months till using. I get local tree surgeons to drop off heaps to me when passing, it is free as they have sooo much, but I ask them to only give me deciduous wood not coniferous.🐇
ive asked many this except you, i want to plant a multi trunk white birch that are very large pre grown specimens but the area they will be planted in is regulalry wet/moist i dont want to plant river birch as it will dissapear against the backdrop, will white birches still be okay ?
Redbud that’s cercis canadensis, well you can certainly buy them ready formed as multi stems from Deepdale, we have just used 14 on a new garden, beautiful trees 🐇❤️
I keep meaning to try a bougainvillea in a very sheltered spot, would need to take some back up cuttings in case it did not survive and they are not so easy from cuttings, but will have a go next year!🐇
How do you control the height of trees? If I top or crop them the side branches grow long. What do I need to do to be successful in keeping the height of the tree more manageable?
That’s because you are removing the apical dominance, so side branches take over. With multi stems just take out at the base the one or ones that are too tall and let others come to take their place. Hope this helps 🐇
In need of advice. My neighbor thinks letting a sucker grow at the base of a multi stem tree will provide another stem to that tree. Is this correct? Can she then cut one of the original stems and let the sucker grow?
When you say 'sucker' to me that implies a shoot from the rootstock of a grafted tree. You remove these as they will take over as are more vigorous. But if the tree is not grafted and its just another shoot coming up then that is correct, let that grow up and you can remove an older stem if it has got too tall. Hope that helps 🐰
That has happened they I put a new pot over it or build a new timber container around it or lift it (which often can be done if you dig a few roots out). Hope this helps!🐇
I'm absolutely star-struck (nothing to do with celebrity and everything to do with your magnificent garden) by your garden, your home (outdoors i.e. door and window colour and style), garden finials, urns, planters... I'm absolutely smitten with all of it! Love your sense of style!
Me too. I must admit I haven't heard of Bunny until 2020 😊 hooked on her videos since and I couldn't believe my eyes when I actually got to meet her at our local Jubilee party this year (she was the judge of the 'Best decorated house in the village ') 😊 that's when I realised I'm completely star struck 😂😂
Love taking a shrub for affordability and trimming it in a raised pot to be more of tree form! What great vertical intetest.
The timing of this is uncanny. A week from today I get the keys to a tiny beach cottage with an overgrown garden that hasn’t been touched in two years, on which there is a large, beautiful Pittosporum tobira and a couple of young cork oaks, not to mention shrubby mimosas and strawberry trees, all of which I’ve been thinking I’d like to turn into multi-stems but wasn’t sure if I should risk it. Now I believe I will. And after that I’ll come back to your gravel video (with pétanque in mind), and then baseless pots (to lend height to young citrus). You are the answer to my garden wishlist, and I am so grateful. Also looking forward to the next video in the garden design series! Huge thanks 🙏🏻
Sounds like a great project - I would also be nervous! Maybe prune in stages so it's not a shock for the trees and also gives you a chance to "get your eye in" as to how much to thin out in the long run. I've always wanted a strawberry tree! Have fun :)
@@cassieryan8839 Thanks Cassie, I appreciate the advice. So far my pruning experience is limited to tabletop topiaries, so I appreciate it! 😅
How exciting, I'm very jealous!
@@dogblessamerica Thank you, had been looking for ten years. Had just given up when it dropped out of the sky. Maybe yours will too!
You're so knowledgeable and creative. Your videos are great, they're educational and inspirational, thank you.
I love the way you just start hacking away at things. It’s inspiring
Bunny, That was a really useful video about creating handsome multi stemmed trees from shrubs, and scruffy saplings and even fairly mature, and, perhaps, unattractive groups of overgrown stems growing closely together. I love your enthusiasm and confidence that your vision is going to succeed in producing an improved, attractive and healthy shape. I have two volunteer laurel shrubs that I will be tackling this winter/spring; I need the height for volume and screening but I want the ground space for growing. Evie😢
I have the same feeling as Aspasia watching this film - and also a warm feeling toward Bunny - her personality, guts, intelligence, holistic vision including cattle, pigs, landscape, forms that echo and support the rhythms around her. The whole "Shebang". Thank you Bunny, for your wonderful contribution. Someday I'd like to come to Britain to see some of your work in the real. (I have to retire first - I'm a nurse and I never really get away!)
Warmest regards
Jennie
🐇❤️
Bunny, you are so generous with your time and talents! I so enjoy your videos and years of knowledge! And I love seeing all the beauty at your fabulous estate! Thank you! 💖
estate?!! The garden is only half an acre and meadow and woodland about 12 acres max! Its a small holding I suppose, but thanks for your kind comments, but dont what anyone to get the idea its grand, its not!!!🐰
@@bunnyguinness oh, but to us, it is grand!💝
Nothing more satisfying than turning a boring shrub, that's been cut into hedging, into an interesting multi stemmed specimen or raised the canopy . I've successfully done it with many shrubs in clients gardens
So glad you popped up again.
If the dog and cow could give the video a thumbs up, they would. Both seemed interested in what Bunny was showing us.
Love your videos,you are such a wealth of knowledge!
Great video as always Bunny, you always give me so many ideas!
This is such a brilliant video, thanks for pointing out how versatile and decorative multi stem trees are. You're doing such a brilliant educational job , no redundant information, precise and well prepared in a nutshell! This video in particular made me go out and start making changes to a couple of shrubs in my garden. Many thanks!
Wow, love all the different examples.
You should have more people following your channel. Very informative. I love it
Please spread the word I am truly hopeless at social media!🐇
Very informative and helpful Bunny, thanks!
Love the self-grafted laurel trunks - amazing!
Love your videos Bunny!!!!
The birdhouse in the garden at ~ 18:14 is super cool.
Incredible
I try to get my rose of Sharon to grow as multi stem tree. Current it has seven stems and all pretty slim and tall. I saw people cut them back like 30% of the height and it grow back next year. Very resilient.
So interesting Bunny, thoroughly enjoy your videos. I'm pretty new to gardening in New Zealand, so your knowledge base is essential for me. Thank u 💓
Super useful. Thanks Bunny
Bunny should of had Peter from Heron's bonsai come over to trim these for her!! I would love to see what he did with these!
Thank you for this Master Class in gardening. #InspirationForDays
Loved your video, do you think I can move a box?
Where do you get your big pots from
Trees, brush or bushes Bunny? In my case after moving in just before the COVID-19 pandemic got declared there was at the time way more than just one multie stems for me to work on too. Some of them 4 inches across.
STIHL GTA 26 battery-powered garden pruner featured. Gotta have one!
I am so excited about buying one as well. Hitting up my Amish Stihl store this week.
I love your videos, but I just have to ask a non gardening question. Perhaps some of your followers will know also. What kind of garden boots do you wear? I need something waterproof, but not too hot?? I love the tall ones you have on in this video. Once again, thank you for your wonderful informative videos!!
These are Chameaux I love them as a) they have two year guarantee and the amount I use them I have gone through inferior wellies in a year b) they are neoprene lined so very snug but don't seem to make your feet sweat which if Im wearing all day is pretty high on my list of priorities c) finally they have straps at top and as have thin legs they don't flap around. I can't find any other wellies so good and with 2 year guarantee. Exact style is Vierzonord. Expensive but if you work in gardening is classified as work wear for tax purposes. hope this helps! 🐰
We use baseless pots to plant our Japanese maples around our home
We have 4 and they are massive (zone 6) central Ohio USA
this is a new concept to me. I purchased a large number of larger Japanese maples last year and then some fabulous pots last week. What type of pots do you use for the baseless bottoms? I am in Maryland zone 7. Very interested in growing large trees in pots but the idea of not watering so often is very appealing.
@@hilltopbrenda we used those fiberglass type of pots I think they are 24 inch diameter
Keep in mind these pots are there to stay ours were in place for 16 years
We planted these pots behind/in between these juniper bushings. We also put 3 gazing in between the bushes and all you could see as the ball sticking out from the bushes. I had also planted early blooming tulips in each of the pots which bloomed before the maples broke dormancy It was really beautiful until the junipers started dying and we had no choice but to remove the pots and bushes
Two of the three potted Japanese maples live at our neighbors
The third I kept and put it in the ground
@@hilltopbrenda you can check Bunny’s videos on baseless pots.
ua-cam.com/video/i_jXvxLIZkQ/v-deo.html
She also has a follow up video where she answers questions from viewers.
Dear Bunny, please tell me, where you bought thdse great garden trousers! please!
I love these ideas. Is it also possible to use boxwoods?
All good advice. I've done that and had the root get so big it totally plugged the drain hole. The plant can drown if not noticed in time.
Aaah you want to remove the whole of the base of the pot then the roots will go into the soil and have no blockages 🐇
I heard about Bunny via Garden Answer in the USA and came over to check her channel. What a gift that I happened on this video about multi-stem trees! We have a lilac that is approximately 30 years old which I planted at the corner of our house. It is easily 2 stories high now and we have been trying to figure out if we can cut it way back to manage its size. Do any of you know if we can do that with a 30-year old multi-trunk lilac, and - if so - how far down can we safely trim it?
The problem with lilac is that it is often grafted so if you cut it hard back you encourage the rootstock to grow. If it has several main stems I think you could try cutting the biggest to the base and then in a years time the remaining biggest then you could let another smaller shoot to grow up in its place and so on. Hope this helps! 🐇
@@bunnyguinness Thank you so much for your reply. The lilac we have has not been grafted because it was a shoot that we dug up from next to a friend’s very mature lilac. We have had it in our garden for a little over 30 years and it has thrived. Do you think that since it was not grafted, it would have a chance of surviving a deeper prune? We don’t want to destroy it, but it definitely needs to be brought under control somehow. I’ve always loved having a lilac tree as it is reminiscent of my childhood home, but it needs some help.
I've seen your baseless pot video and I found it super informative. Where would one go and get it done or buy one in the USA? Any thoughts?
Just get a frost proof terracotta (assuming you are in a frost prone zone) and cut the bottom off with a disc cutter, or make up a timber one with no bottom or get a metal worker to make a baseless open cylinder
For you. Hope this helps🐇
love love love
Could you do this with a Rhododendron Bunny?
Thank you for your brilliant video’s.
I think the rough bark rondos tend to regenerate from hard cutting back but the smooth barked ones are more difficult. Maybe cut back tentively first and just see the reaction? 🐇
Stunning Garden and skills very inspiring. Wondering what you recommend as a garden mulch/weed suppressant?
I use ramial, young shredded wood from branches less than 70mm diameter, I leave in a pile for 3 months till using. I get local tree surgeons to drop off heaps to me when passing, it is free as they have sooo much, but I ask them to only give me deciduous wood not coniferous.🐇
ive asked many this except you, i want to plant a multi trunk white birch that are very large pre grown specimens but the area they will be planted in is regulalry wet/moist i dont want to plant river birch as it will dissapear against the backdrop, will white birches still be okay ?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I’m in the states and wonder if you can use redbud trees for multi growth.
Redbud that’s cercis canadensis, well you can certainly buy them ready formed as multi stems from Deepdale, we have just used 14 on a new garden, beautiful trees 🐇❤️
@@bunnyguinness thank you so much.
Is that a reciprocating saw you're using to prune back?
I keep meaning to try a bougainvillea in a very sheltered spot, would need to take some back up cuttings in case it did not survive and they are not so easy from cuttings, but will have a go next year!🐇
Sorry wrong reply! It’s a Stihl mini chain saw a GTA 26, cordless garden pruner, it’s fab!
@@bunnyguinness thank you it looks great gotta get one
How do you control the height of trees? If I top or crop them the side branches grow long. What do I need to do to be successful in keeping the height of the tree more manageable?
That’s because you are removing the apical dominance, so side branches take over. With multi stems just take out at the base the one or ones that are too tall and let others come to take their place. Hope this helps 🐇
I understand the lifting or crowning. But to actually create multi stemmed. Are you reducing the height.
You can do that too. My cork oaks have got too high so I remove the longest at the base and let a smaller one grow up to replace it.🐇
In need of advice. My neighbor thinks letting a sucker grow at the base of a multi stem tree will provide another stem to that tree. Is this correct? Can she then cut one of the original stems and let the sucker grow?
When you say 'sucker' to me that implies a shoot from the rootstock of a grafted tree. You remove these as they will take over as are more vigorous. But if the tree is not grafted and its just another shoot coming up then that is correct, let that grow up and you can remove an older stem if it has got too tall. Hope that helps 🐰
I love the completely baseless arguments
You didn't mention the little chain saw
It's a Stihl mini chain saw. She did a video on it a few months ago
But what if the baseless pot cracks and you have to remove it? How does that affect the tree?
That has happened they I put a new pot over it or build a new timber container around it or lift it (which often can be done if you dig a few roots out). Hope this helps!🐇
@@bunnyguinness Thank you Bunny.