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| We had a wonderful "grotto" formed by some large yews. Unfortunately they grew too big, and the shade and the deer caused the undergrowth to die back to where only the tops are growing, the underneath is bare and sparse.
They are going to get taken out shortly as they are 70 years old and won't survive cutting down to stumps to restart. I like yews, but the deer eat them aggressively. Boxwood's grow too slow and don't grow tall enough. (we want about 10-12' tall) What can I plant that can take full sun on top and south side, will grow reasonably quickly, be dense, and will either stop at 10' or take to shearing well...
The X's were Yew, the Z was a quiet shady spot on the grass (.) D was a Dragon Sculpture sticking out of the bushes
The Dragon's armature used to be hidden in the Yews, but the deer have eaten all the growth up to about 4', so you can see through the bushes now... What should I replant to hid the dragon's "legs" that won't take forever to grow in? |
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| You state that your yews 'won't survive cutting down to stumps to restart.' Yew actually responds extremely well to hard cutting back. 70 is no age at all for a yew and it is possible to rejuvenate even the most specimens. If you could fence off the yews, even temporarily, from the deer I think you could get your grotto back. |
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- Posted by tsugajunkie z5 SE WI (My Page) on Wed, Feb 29, 12 at 17:12
| Have you a pic of the whole area? I'm having trouble picturing this. A clickable link to your pic is below. tj |
Here is a link that might be useful: Burner
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| Try these two links http://www.inspectionsbybob.com/media/jphoto/test-galary/test-everythi ng/p3014235-195x146.jpg and http://www.inspectionsbybob.com/media/jphoto/test-galary/test-everythi ng/p3014234-195x146.jpg I had to find a place I could load them but not make them "public" |
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- Posted by tsugajunkie z5 SE WI (My Page) on Thu, Mar 1, 12 at 17:32
| Um, perhaps some pix that my mature vision could see? Those are a tad small to try and determine if the yews could be selectively pruned to work or an alternative would be better. tj |
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| That is one seriously cool dragon sculpture! Not at all what I was expecting. No ideas, though-just wanted to tell you I like your dragon-a lot. |
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| We had the Yews cut down to short stumps and NOT ground out.... We will see if they sprout this spring... once we could see where they were 65 years ago, they were NOT what we expected. They were 6 separate "specimen plants" in a half-moon...NOT a closed area... looks VERY different once opened up... |
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