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Cheap Multi stemmed Birch?

  • 20-05-2013 9:39pm
    #1
    Sgt Pepper 64
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    Anyone know the cheapest place to get a a multi stemmed birch?

    thanks


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  • #2
    paddy147
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    Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »
    Anyone know the cheapest place to get a a multi stemmed birch?

    thanks


    Where are you located?


  • #3
    Sgt Pepper 64
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    Where are you located?

    Navan


  • #4
    paddy147
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    Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »
    Navan


    You have Tully Nurseries in Balyboughal and theres also a large nursery and garden centre just outside Ashbourne on the old Derry road...(nearly opposite the turn off for Tayto Park).Its called Ashbrook Garden Centre.

    Both have a nice selection of trees.:)


  • #5
    pwurple
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    Do you mean multi-stemmed or feathered? A lot of people get these confused. Feathered is one trunk with many low branches, multistemmed is several trunks coming out of the ground beside eachother.

    The super cheapest way to do multistemmed, is to get very three young birch, barerooted, and plant them in the same large planting hole in a triangle, maybe 30cm apart from eachother.


  • #6
    Sgt Pepper 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,627 ✭✭✭Sgt Pepper 64


    pwurple wrote: »
    Do you mean multi-stemmed or feathered? A lot of people get these confused. Feathered is one trunk with many low branches, multistemmed is several trunks coming out of the ground beside eachother.

    The super cheapest way to do multistemmed, is to get very three young birch, barerooted, and plant them in the same large planting hole in a triangle, maybe 30cm apart from eachother.

    When I tried that before, I just got 3 very thin and weedy looking trees that didnt develop the lovely peeling white bark


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  • #7
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    One method is as suggested by Pwurple. The peeling bark is the Himalayan variety, which acn also be a multistem.

    Another way is to select a tree with a strong leader stem and cut back to ground level an cull merging new stems until the desired look is achieved.

    Peeling bark has nothing to do with a multistem.

    You could practice on simple bog birch, plenty around Navan area.


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