Marie Staunton

a piece of wood going across, and then you have what's called a little spacer, and then you attach the tree to the spacer with another kind of... It's almost like webbing, and that is loosened every year.

That's really important as well.

They are.

So you're looking at, for something...

kind of um i suppose at that height eight foot plus the eight or nine foot plus the um the canopy you're looking at about 500 euro roughly that's what you're looking at okay but they do the job for you it'll do the job instantly see that's that's the idea so they are there i mean a lot of landscapers will go into i mean i see them all around the place now so they're in

You know, it's an instant look, an instant fix to being overlooked by much taller houses.

The houses that have been built now, they've been built on smaller plots, but they're taller.

So with that, you are being overlooked.

So, you know, it's an instant fix.

If you have the time, it's a lot easier and a lot less expensive to grow, you know, plants like the big one at the moment is Portuguese laurel.

I suppose if you're looking at putting in a hedging,

hedge or you or native taxes, something like that.

Slower growing, easier to manage, but will take a long time to get up to that height.

You know, the 500 euro height of a pleached tree.

That's the only difference, but they are much, much cheaper.

You see, a bugbear of mine, Clare, is that they're not, it's not that they're not properly, you know, that maybe there's a little bit written on the sign on these bamboos and you really need a microscope to get, to have a look at it and see is it a running one or is it a clump forming bamboo.

If it's a running bamboo, we learned, when we were in college, we learned kind of that a running bamboo is

leptomorph so it leaps everywhere you know it goes along underground and it ends up in the neighbors that's the simplest that into your driveway into your grass in your front garden it goes everywhere yeah dreadful absolutely dreadful and then there is the one it's um the clump forming one they like a little bit more shade they stay pretty much in their clump

And if you think of an iris, you know, those beautiful irises that are out now.

And they have kind of like really twisted kind of roots at the bottom.