Bending Woody Plants.

[RopeShield]

Looking forward to spring.
Thought you all might like to see some green and colour instead of another snow day.
Cotoneaster hedge I did for a client.
We have down this to Chineses Elm, Linden, Norway Maple and privet.
Clients love this. Gives the hedge a nice curving horizontal lay instead of being upright and boring.

Fun and challenging.

 

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Another pic

 

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One more pretty pic.
I'll go tomorrow and take a pic of it covered in snow if any ones interested to see it in all wood.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Yes!!! Lets see the bones!

 

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Winter Bone Pic

 

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Winter bend

 

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Winter bend 2

 

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Winter bend 3

 

[Frax]

Nice work, and creative too. Do you fix them in place somehow or just wind them around so they stick. How do you charge for it, say compared to hedging.
No annoying hedge cleanup either. I like that.

 

[RopeShield]

Re: One last pic

Glad you like it, pics some times do not give things justice. Cool!
Bend and tuck with weave and circle. One bending in wide arches and the other tucking and pulling.
Wide arching so the bend doesn't snap around sharper turn.
You weave or circle around as you tuck and bend.
Its either half or full day.
On our web site I do rose arbor every few years.
Incredible how floriferous a shrub gets with the fracturing that occurs from vertical stem to horizontal. One
Actually the hedge is a little less than half of what was original. Hedge will be easier to maintain now.
Plus now they and the neighbour can enjoy each others gardens instead of huge wall of hedge.
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Nice work, and creative too. Do you fix them in place somehow or just wind them around so they stick. How do you charge for it, say compared to hedging.
No annoying hedge cleanup either. I like that.

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