Why I Cut Down My Favourite Trees

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10 ай бұрын

Bunny planted her favourite quince trees in 1984, and quince still are her favourite trees (its a family thing).
When she planted them she did not realise that Quince Blight caused by Diplocarpon mespili, can become quite a problem and that it is more prevalent during mild humid conditions. The symptoms are irregular spots on both surfaces if the leaves and at first red but gradually darken to become almost black. Minute pustules occur on the spots and the leaves may fall prematurely. Spots are sometimes found on the tips of the shoots and less frequently on the fruit. With the wet humid weather increasing the problem has become worse and quite unsightly, and the leaves fell prematurely during August.
More recently Bunny discovered a blight resistant variety, which she has trialed elsewhere in her garden, so she took the tough decision to cut down her trees and replace with Cydonia oblonga ‘Serbian Gold’ also known as Leskovac. See Bunny and Dave removing the beautiful mature trees, and replacing them.
* Cydonia oblonga ‘Serbian Gold’
* Cydonia oblonga ‘Leskovac’
* Cydonia oblonga ‘Vranja’
* Effect of Hydroalcoholic Extract of Cydonia oblonga Miller (Quince) on Sexual behaviour of Wistar Rats. www.hindawi.com/journals/aps/...
#quinces #gold

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@a.kaiser8965 10 ай бұрын

she is so gutsy... ha, after 40 years... ! i have 3 year old boxwoods and I think one is dying and i feel like i am dying.. lol such a bold move!

@Kaz_NZ 9 ай бұрын

OMG the last 30 seconds.. 😂😂😂 I'm sold Bunny, I think I need a quince in my life! 😍

@elisaangel9789 10 ай бұрын

Bunny has skills with the sledgehammer . . . well, she has my same skills with a sledgehammer. The gardens are beautiful. I always learn something from Bunny's posts, and it's nice to look at her garden.

@user-sq3kk3wt8p 10 ай бұрын

Bunny, that is a bold move and courageous for the health of your garden. I'm glad you're growing more quince trees in their place and they will be grand in the future; don't they say when we grow a tree we do it for the next generation? I love your videos, and am so grateful for all the amazing knowledge your share with us! There is one aspect of this planting that troubles me, though. That is your choice to keep the trees in the cheap black plastic pots for the rest of their lives. The pots are clearly something you don't like (and they are an eye sore), but you're willing to spend the rest of your life managing other plants to try and hide them from view, just to gain a year or two's growth. That seems very short-sighted to me. I could understand if the pots you were leaving them in were something beautiful you wanted to look at, but this seems like a travesty to me that these majestic trees in 20 years will be tethered to these cheap black plastic throw-away pots. I can see the future caretakers of your lovely garden cutting down the trees just to get rid of the pots. I love you, Bunny, but please rethink this decision.

@AJsGreenThumbLLC 10 ай бұрын

Bold moves produces bolder results....just brilliant! I can honestly say that I have never tasted a quince before. i am so intrigued now after watching this. Thanks for your knowledge Ms. Bunny and giving the rest of us the courage to make the necessary changes in the garden.

@ladyjrider666 8 ай бұрын

You have described what is happening with my 3 hear old quince. It has never looked lovely. 😢 I'll hang to make the chop. Thank you for covering this.

@jimwalker76 10 ай бұрын

Bunny is such a fantastic gardener. He gardens are fabulous.

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

I’m still learning, I know I’ll never know a smidgeon of the subject, and research is bringing a new light on many aspects all the time ! But I suppose that is what makes it all so intriguing ! 🐇

@waynejones750 7 ай бұрын

Love this video 😊

@Jane-3229 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic Bunny! Really inspirational and informative thank you 💚💚💚

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! 🐇

@elisaangel9789 10 ай бұрын

I am sorry about the old quince trees. I remember Bunny talking about them on other videos. Onward and upward though!

@shawnmnichols1 9 ай бұрын

Thank you again for the bottomless pot reminder. I wanted them in now and so it will be. Really love your channel.

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! 🐇

@cindym6065 10 ай бұрын

I'm sorry about your old Quince trees. However, your garden still looks beautiful. In the photos, I do miss the height they brought to the space but, in time, your new Quince trees will be up there. In the meantime, your other plants get their chance to shine.

@SpanishEclectic 10 ай бұрын

Wow. I remember you talking about them in a previous video. Sometimes you have to make the hard choices. I want to grow stone fruit, but our climate is warm. I had to research to find varieties that needed a minimum of chill hours. And guess what? I discovered the plum trees that worked best are the same ones my grandparents grew on Los Angeles when I was a child (Satsuma and Santa Rosa). True hibiscus (Hibiscus syriacus) is something I'd never grow here; though the plants grow fine, every one I see is covered with horrid white fly.

@fionasaunders7646 10 ай бұрын

We rarely see any quince fruit here in Zimbabwe, 😕 I remember them well from boarding school days in Cheshire, near by a big pond. Delicious mixed with cooking apple, wish we had those tree’s here. Fascinating episode, dident know about those tree plugs !

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

I Cant think why they might not grow there, there are a lot in the warmer parts of Europe, and in Japan in Hokkaido which gets very cold, to minus 23 degrees c would be interesting to see if they would grow? 🐇

@anuszka1537 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Bunny for your inspiration.i am also going to buy Quins Serbian Gold.❤

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

Enjoy! 🐇

@janspenno2241 10 ай бұрын

Wow! I love trees and am very unhappy if any have to come down but sometimes, just sometimes it looks good without them

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

So true! 🐇

@coolredkelpie 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant solution and in my climate the plastic pots would help to keep the moisture in the soil as stone and terracotta pots dry out much faster here in W. Australia. I've had to make a decision to remove a Chinese Tallow tree from my garden after 25 years because it's been suffering really badly from scale for the last 5 and due to it's size is hard to treat successfully. Also seems it is pushing agains a retaining wall. I know your new quince tree roots will work into the soil but will the plastic pots restrict their size at all?

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

I don’t think so I think they will grow down after the moisture. I have had trees in baseless pots for 30 plus years and they seem extremely healthy. My yew trees that went in on top of Laurel stumps with a small amount of soil over are thriving. I am surprised but I can only assume the Laurel roots are rotting and feeding the yew. Quite amazing . 🐇

@elisaangel9789 10 ай бұрын

The purple flower behind Bunny in the first part of the video is stunning. What is it? I love that color.

@CeresIsABetterPlanetThanPluto 10 ай бұрын

Agreed! I also want to know what it is. It's some kind of dinnerplate dahlia? 'Thomas Edison' maybe?

@pricklyplants 10 ай бұрын

Why not try grafting the resistant cultivar onto the established boles though?

@anneduigan4933 9 ай бұрын

As kids in South Africa we would cut slices off the fruit and sprinkle with salt and eat them

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

I’ll try that, someone else has suggested grating in salad with walnuts - will try that too. It goes brown very fast so if you don’t like that you could add French dressing very fast. 🐇

@FireflyOnTheMoon 10 ай бұрын

Won't you be left with a manky plastic pot in 20 years?

@janspenno2241 10 ай бұрын

I’ve never heard of the eco plugs. Will that work with Laurel?

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

They work with anything, they are hugely effective 🐇

@Mkalikapisa-ui7by 10 ай бұрын

Interestingly my tree, which normally gets blighted, was ompletely lear this year

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

That is strange, especially as was a wet summer. If you practice good hygiene and remove any blighted leaves or fruit that develop and then mulch the soil to help contain any fungal spores you might break the cycle. 🐇

@colette8694 10 ай бұрын

Out with the old in with the new 🌳

@buds8423 10 ай бұрын

Couldn’t even listen to the whole thing- for me, this was listening to someone choosing to put down their pet. I have such a hard time thinning even radish seedlings! Will never be a great gardener due to this!

@alisonsneed3707 10 ай бұрын

@bunnyguinness Are you coming back to answer some of these questions?

@bunnyguinness 10 ай бұрын

Yes for sure just a bit pushed for time at mo!🐇

@alisonsneed3707 10 ай бұрын

@@bunnyguinness whenever you get time. Thank you 👍🏽

@garycowderoy7662 10 ай бұрын

What will happen to the rootball of the tree as it matures over years? Will it not split the plastic pot and sprawl out all over the place?

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

In my experience the roots tend to grow down. If in 30 years they did then I would put a bigger pot around it, maybe metal or timber fitting it around the root ball in situ. I’m about to do this with a terracotta pot I used that was frost resistant not frost proof, and it’s split. We will do a video of it going in. 🐇

@FireflyOnTheMoon 10 ай бұрын

all going pear-shaped

@joannlyons9639 10 ай бұрын

Trees down and sex education to boot! jd

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

We aim to please! 🐇

@ulricherxleben6504 9 ай бұрын

why you do not cut the tree on 2 m ... and put other sorts of quince at this points... a am more than 60 years old... my method is faster and the other thing is... i have 12 sorts of quince and less problems... we lost so much old sorts thats a big problem

@bunnyguinness 9 ай бұрын

Great idea, one to consider next time. Which quince varieties do you think are most blight resistant and have you tried Isphahan which apparently can be eaten straight from the tree? 🐇

@ulricherxleben6504 9 ай бұрын

@@bunnyguinness Hello, I think, you can not plant trees for uncooked quince... two reasons first we have not the same climate the second reason ... many arabic person have a other taste... they like more astrigent ..if you like more info look mustea nursery... the history of quince is very interessting