Sea Salt

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MotherPlants - A Green Roof for your Building

MotherPlants - A Green Roof for your Building Ithaca, NY a nursery run by women.

Vines at Lazy S'S Farm - Evergreen Vines

Lazy S'S Farm Extensive nursery not far from Charlottesville with over 2000 varieties of perennials.

Evergreens / Semi-evergreens
Bignonia - Crossvine
Clematis x cartmanii 'Blaaval'ppaf AVALANCHE^TM White Evergreen Clematis
Decumaria sinensis       Chinese Climbing Evergreen Hydrangea 
Gelsemium sempervirens    Carolina Jessamine 
Kadsura japonica 'Fukurin'    Variegated Kadsura or Evergreen Magnolia Vine
Lonicera japonica 'Aureo-Reticulata'   Goldnet Honeysuckle

Bines not vines

A bine is a climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support. It is distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers.

The stems of many bines are rough or have downward-pointing bristles to aid their grip.

The rotation of the shoot tip during climbing is autonomous, and does not (as sometimes imagined) derive from the shoot following the sun around the sky – the direction of twist does not therefore depend upon which side of the equator the plant is growing. This is shown by the fact that some bines always twine clockwise, including runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus) andbindweed (Convolvulus species), while others twine anticlockwise, including French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and climbing honeysuckles (Lonicera species).

Snedding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Snedding is the process of stripping the side shoots and buds from the length of a branch or shoot, usually of a tree or woody shrub. Most commonly this process is performed duringhedge laying.

The verb, "to sned", analogous to today's limbing, was also used by woodcutters in Scotland to refer to the process of removing branches from felled trees. Whether using an axe or a chainsaw the relative difficulty of snedding was a key measure of the difficulty of the job as a whole.

The word comes from the Scandinavian snäddare, meaning a smooth log via the Old English "snaedan"^[1].

Snedding can also describe a form of pruning when only some shoots will be removed or when removing the leafy top from root crops (particularly turnips) is also known as snedding.

What is Hedgelaying? Tools, Styles, Techniques and History.

What is Hedgelaying? Tools, Styles, Techniques and History.

Hedge laying/ Pleaching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The aim is to reduce the thickness of the upright stems of the hedgerow trees by cutting away the wood on one side of the stem and in line with the course of the hedge. This being done, each remaining stem is then laid down towards the horizontal, along the length of the hedge^[1].

A stem which has been (or is to be) laid down in this manner is known as a "pleacher". A section of bark and some sapwood must be left connecting a pleacher to its roots in order to keep the pleacher alive - knowing how much is one part of the art of hedgelaying. It is also essential that pleachers are not laid down completely horizontal as some upward slant is required to ensure the sap will still rise properly through the plant - judging and achieving the required degree of upward slant is again a matter of skill.

Smaller shoots branching off the pleachers and upright stems too small to be used as pleachers are known as "brash" or "brush" and in most styles of laying the brash will be partly removed and partly woven between the pleachers to add cohesiveness to the finished hedge.

At regular intervals upright stakes are placed along the line of the hedge; these stakes give the finished hedge its final strength. The uprights are often bound together by such things as hazel whips woven around the tops of the stakes. The woven whips are known as "binders" or "heatherings" and can also be of birch, ash, willow etc. In fact, these can be of any green wood which will hold the stakes and tops of the pleachers down securely.