On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:21:24 GMT, Janet Baraclough
wrote:


I live in a windy place, and find it useful to give low-growing
shrubs like rosemary and cistus extra anchors by rooting living
branches. I put some earth then a stone on lower branches, pinning
them down to the earth. Once the anchors are well rooted you can take
the stone off.

Back in the 1960s I used to visit an old fashioned nursery on moorland
near Tansley in the Peak District. It seemed like a time warp even
then, these old boys in old overcoats with sacking over their
shoulders to shed a little bit of the rain that fell fairly copiously
there. They produced some of the best field grown trees and shrubs
I've ever seen. Rhododendron stock hedges formed many of the
windbreaks on the place and they produced rhodies for sale by
layering, basically just pulling branches down and plonking boulders
on them.

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