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Posted by deejaus Melb.Vic. Aust (My Page) on Fri, Aug 5, 05 at 20:56
To the person who emailed me. I'm sorry I couldn't reply personally to your email, I accidentaly deleted it and in doing so lost your name and email address. (Another grey moment!)
A standard is simply a plant with a woody stem that is grown to look like a little tree, ball shaped on top. It is done by removing all lower growth to get the trunk and then pruning the top foliage to create a 'ball on stick'.
I'm sure you would have seen things like standard roses, weeping figs, azaleas, lillypillys and many others. Most of them are securely staked, especially while young, for added support.
I hope that answes your question adequately.
Cheers,
Dee. |
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In the case of standard roses, the graft is at the top of the stem, and is sometimes a grafted climbing or ground cover rose, so that it hangs down, as in weeping roses, or it is just a rose that would otherwise form a bush branching out at the base.
many weeping trees are made into standards in this way too - japanese, maples, birch, elm, pear, mulberry, etc. They are grafted onto a plant which forms a straight, upright stem, then they branch gracefully out from the graft at the top of the main trunk. |
RE: Reply: What is a standard?
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Thanks for that addition Sparaxis. I totally forgot about grafted plants when I wrote that....talk about your grey moments, I think they are starting to take over my brain!!
Cheers,
Dee. |
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