{"id":400,"date":"2017-07-05T14:35:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/journal\/?p=400"},"modified":"2019-05-15T18:07:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:07:57","slug":"bay-tree-in-f4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/bay-tree-in-f4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay tree in F4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-400 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_06.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_06-300x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Bay (and hydrangea)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_06-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_06-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_06-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_06-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_06.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-395'>\n\t\t\t\tBay (and hydrangea)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_04.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_04-300x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Bay (and hydrangea) in F4\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_04-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_04-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_04-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_04-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_04.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-394'>\n\t\t\t\tBay (and hydrangea) in F4\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_01.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_01-300x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Bay in F4\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_01-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_01-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_01-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_01-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bay_hydrangea_20170703_01.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-393'>\n\t\t\t\tBay in F4\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The bay tree came with the original garden. It&#8217;s got two equal, close stems, and was clipped into a tight ball. Clipping like this cuts the large leaves, and the whole plant has to be gone over again with secateurs to remove the cut leaves. Also the growth gets very tight and constrained, with thick knots just inside the cut surface. I would like to maintain the overall size and shape, but loosen the whole plant up.<\/p>\n<p><em>3 Aug 17<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tinkering through the summer seems to be working quite well, as the plant is growing strongly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bay tree came with the original garden. It&#8217;s got two equal, close stems, and was clipped into a tight ball. Clipping like this cuts the large leaves, and the whole plant has to be gone over again with secateurs to remove the cut leaves. Also the growth gets very tight and constrained, with thick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants","category-pruning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}