Episode: Nine
Air Date: 25th of October 2008
Presenter: Neville Passmore
Story Title: What to do this week in your garden

For a well kept garden, it is essential that you prune and maintain your plants all year round. Neville shows you how to look after one of your favourite plants, to maintain it’s beautiful shape.

Featured Plant

Italian Cypress or Pencil Pine

• It is a medium-sized evergreen tree to 35 m (115 ft) tall, with a conic crown with level branches and variably pendulous branchlets.
• It is very long-lived, with some trees reported to be over 1,000 years old.
• The foliage grows in dense sprays, dark green in colour.
• The leaves are scale-like, 2-5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots.
• The seed cones are ovoid or oblong, 25-40 mm long, with 10-14 scales, green at first, maturing brown about 20-24 months after pollination. The male cones are 3-5 mm long, and release pollen in February-March.
• It is moderately susceptible to cypress canker, caused by the fungus Seridium cardinale, and can suffer extensive dieback where this disease is common.

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Fiskars Powergear Loppers

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• Hardened stainless steel blade
• 13 oz. Weight
• 1-1/4" cutting capacity
• Overall length: 15"

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