My Silverberry

[Dav4]

Spring haircut, unwired and ready to grow!

 

[Dav4]

Beast mode? Cousin ‘It’ mode? Not sure what to call it but this one is growing… A lot! It’s already in the queue to get its first spring cut back, probably next week.

 

[Dav4]

Cut back shoots to two or three leaves depending on size and location in the canopy, along with leaf cutting to open up the canopy further and allow sunlight into the interior. Some of the shoots on the lower branches were left alone to run free for a little longer. Too bad there isn’t such a thing as silver berry salad since produce is so expensive these days

 

[Dav4]

I cut the new shoots back again at the beginning of the month. It looks like I need to go in and thin out the foliage again.

 

[Dav4]

Leaf pruned and minor cut back last week. One of these days I will get my lighting dialed in…

 

[Dav4]

More “cousin It-like” every year… First cut back done .

 

[Dav4]

I love this tree but it’s a beast and hard to move by myself. It’s even harder to repot on my own, but needed to since its last repot was three years ago. The tree and I got through it in about three hours with maybe a smidge more of the root base exposed…. I’m going to have a beer now.

 

[SeanS]

Stunning tree @Dav4!
I remember seeing this thread a few years ago before I really had an interest in Elaeagnus. Now I have a few of my own and they’ve quickly become my favourite broadleaf evergreen (although yours isn’t, I’ve got the evergreen Elaeagnus pungens variety). The old gnarly bark on yours really is impressive!

 

[Berra]

Stunning tree @Dav4!
I remember seeing this thread a few years ago before I really had an interest in Elaeagnus. Now I have a few of my own and they’ve quickly become my favourite broadleaf evergreen (although yours isn’t, I’ve got the evergreen Elaeagnus pungens variety). The old gnarly bark on yours really is impressive!

Correct me if I am wrong, but Elaeagnus Pungens is not evergreen in cold climates. This is what I read at least. I keep an Elaeagnus X Ebbengei in the garden and it drops its leafs in winter.

 

[JudyB]

Still a chonker... I can relate to the pain of dealing with the big ones, I only have a couple left that are hard to deal with, got rid of the beast last year.
This one looks worth the hard work, not many of this size/caliber that I've seen. Nice ramification going on there too...

 

[MACH5]

WOW! What a fantastic tree!!