The best berry plants to have in your garden
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The Claire Byrne Show on News Talk. With Aviva Insurance.
We're talking about berries
today.
Absolutely. Why are we talking about berries today?
Why are berries the perfect seasonal addition to a garden?
Because this is the time they're looking magnificent. So, you know, when you're looking for stuff in a garden to keep the interest going, you're looking for either shades, leaves turning colours or buried kind of um uh shrubs and trees and there are the most amazing berries at the moment, and that's because we had a good summer. Ah yes. Really good summer. We're reaping the benefits of the good summer. So
what type of berries are we talking about? So
at the moment if you're kind of walking around and you're just noticing noticing stuff, Pyrocantha, and that's the very prickly kind of hedge, or you can use it as a screen, um it has the most amazing orange uh berries on it at the moment. Stunning. So that that's one for kind of thinking of intermingling into a hedge. If you're looking for something like um A tree, sorbus uh Cashmiriana is is just so gor I remember being in the Botanic Gardens as a student and there's an area where all the sorbus are and it's well worth going in having a look at them because there's so many different types. Kashmiriana is kind of a white um it's like pearlescent, really beautiful. I saw them the other day when I was out for my walk.
I saw them the other day when I was out for my walk. They're absolutely gorgeous. They look really well. They look really well. So obviously. So
obviously they're as we say we're reaping the benefits of the good weather in the summer. I have a listener here who has a holly tree but never had any red berries. Mm. You see that, don't you? Why is it 'cause you need a male and a female. Oh, they're back to this again.
Which ornamental berry plants thrive after a good summer?
How do you well like what's this person to do? Let's get another one.
How do you know? Generally speaking, and this is back to good labeling. No good labelling on on um trees and shrubs. And this is a bug mare bear of mine in terms of when you go into a nursery or a garden centre, they have to you know, the the the information is on the label and it should be on the label. If not, you need to ask, Is this uh male or female? Um and if they don't know, then You you walk away, go somewhere else and and buy the one you want. Otherwise you need two, a female and a male, um, to cross pollinate.
Okay. G so this person's holly tree with red berry no red berries, they don't know which this is. No. No. So they don't know how to solve the problem. So they don't know how to solve the problem. Yeah,
exactly. So I mean I would introduce um I would introduce a male into that scenario and see um first now you can buy ch very cheap and cheerful hollies. um as in small little ones, uh a male or a female, and even put the two in and see what happens. You know what I mean? So you can actually do that. Okay. Same with schimia. You don't have to have you don't have to go for the Reeves Yana one, which is the male and female on that particular plant. You just buy a small little schimmia and they're very cheap and cheerful, small little ones, and introduce a male and another female and see and you'll get cross pollination there.
How can you use Pyracantha as a colorful hedge screen?
Now I have a listener who wants tips on getting rid of bamboo. The more I cut, the more it spreads. Digging out may not be possible. Oh, it starts to grow up through the shed.
Oh, it's just and herein lies the problem. There's clump forming bamboo which stays in its clump, and then there's uh spreading bamboo which goes everywhere into the neighbours' grass, into sheds, it goes absolutely everywhere. Yeah, there's no way of it even if you dig it out, you're breaking the root system, and when you break the root system, it goes off again on a tangent. So it's a it's basically a grass. So if you are using using a herbicide, um it has to be a systemic herbicide which goes yeah has the the bamboo needs to be cut down and then it's actively growing again, there's new little leaves coming on it, and then you spray the leaves um with the system systemic herbicide, goes in through the leaves, down into the root system and kills it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:13
2
Why are berries the perfect seasonal addition to a garden?
0:13–1:29
3
Which ornamental berry plants thrive after a good summer?
1:29–2:49
4
How can you use Pyracantha as a colorful hedge screen?
2:49–4:42
5
What are the best ornamental sorbus (Kashmiriana) trees for garden colour?
4:42–6:07
6
Why do holly bushes need both male and female plants for red berries?
6:07–7:16
7
How can you control invasive bamboo without harming the garden?
7:16–9:00
8
What pollination tricks help pear trees produce fruit in small spaces?
9:00–9:44