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From A Christmas Tree To A Spiral Topiary || My First Ever Attempt!!
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- čas přidán 28. 12. 2020
- My first ever attempt at a spiral topiary!! I thought I would try and do something creative with my Alberta Spruce Christmas Tree so watched quite a few CZcams tips and tricks and now giving in a go!
This was one of the two Christmas trees I had in pots either side of my front door and I have been wanting to have a go at making a spiral topiary for some time. So here goes!! I don’t think it’s too bad for me first ever attempt. You have to start somewhere, don’t you?
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Have fun in your gardens!
Janette, The Enthusiastic Gardener
I like this idea and you are brave to try your first one on camera 🤣🤣
Thank you! It wasn’t too bad in the end!
Best tutorial ever! Such a beautiful voice and your caring soul comes through your voice ♥️
Oh wow that is such a lovely comment, thank you 😍 well, this video was in January 2021 I think. I still have my spiral topiary, I planted it in the landscape, but it’s looking really dry unfortunately. I am trying to keep it going 🤣 I’ll give you an update on my next garden tour which I hope to film this week or next. Thank you so much Raw Ninja, you’ve made my day 😍
Now I see what you was talking about you really did amazing job I’m very impress 🤩🤩🤩 it is not easy to do what you did it looks gorgeous if you was to buy that in the store it would be expensive job well done ❤️❤️❤️😍.
Hi Rich and thank you for your compliments! I can see where I went wrong at the top but, it was a lot of fun trying 🤣🤣😍
Watching you with trepidation. I salute you enthusiastically. You have inspired me. Thank you. Yax
Hi Yax and thank you 🤩 Happy New Year to you and your family 🥳🥳
Love this idea. You're right, so much better than just planting it in the landscape.
Thank you! I didn’t want to plant it, but then again if I had and it grew for a few years, then I could have had a huge spiral!! 😍
Wow! How you saw that from those twiggy branches is talent! I am standing in my garden umming and ahhhing over my tree and now have inspiration! Spray paint.... genius! Thanks 😊
🤣🤣 Victoria I don’t think it’s talent, just go for it, easier than you think. Spray paint really helps!! Let me know how you get on 🥰😊🤪
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener will do, I’m just tying the string eek! 😱
Oh exciting 🤣🤣 you will think you’re going wrong but all of a sudden it looks good 🥰
Bravo, Janette! Bravo! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Oh Tanya thank you so much 😍 you’re so very sweet 🥳
Lk13 wow looks so beautiful 👏👏👏 good job dear 👍
Hi Tanu and thank you so much!!
Very nice 👍 you did such a awesome job.
Thank you so much Madison! It looks easier on the CZcams videos watching the experts doing it 🤣🤣
Impressive!😍 I would have been too impatient and given it a really bad haircut😂
Hi there 🤣🤣 it was a lot of fun 🤩
What a great idea! It turned out really well.
Thank you Daisy, it was a lot of fun.
You are amazing...now to dig up my lemon cypress and try this!
Do it Anne!! So pleased! Everyone’s going to have spirals now 🤣🤣
Well done Janette! Love it 😍 xx
Hello Lulu and thank you so much 🤣🤣😍
Great job Jenette, I might have a go myself!!
Oh you must try Mooj, what’s the worst that can happen? 🤣🤣
Cool tip I had no idea how that was done !
Hi there and thank you so much. My first time trying, everything in the garden is in danger of getting topiaried now 🤣🤣
Wow looks fantastic 👌 Annette.
Hi there Tracey and thank you! This was a couple of years ago now and I’m happy to say I still have this Albert’s Spruce planted in my circle border 👍 by the way I just wanted to say, I’m not Annette, it’s Janette 😆😆♥️
Love it love love it
😃😃 thanks so much Larry, this was actually a couple of years ago but I still have it, now planted in the ground. It survived 🤣 thanks so much for watching 😄
Well done you. It turned out really well 👏👏
Thank you Julie, I couldn’t resist giving it a go ... you have to start somewhere 🤣🤣😍🥳
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener ive been giving it a go for the past past forty years.... its so fascinating to see how ideas turn out.
Haha yes so have I 🤩🥳
Nothing like jumping in at the deep end Janette 🤣 I did get nervous when you changed out your secateurs for your hedge clippers, but I shouldn't have worried, you had it under control!
🤣🤣 thank you Una. I enjoyed that, and if it all went wrong I knew I had another one 🤩😍🤣
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I loved watching your video.
Aww Nancy thank you!! This video was nearly 2 years ago now and I still have this little spiral tree planted in my garden 😊🥰
I love what you have done and this is a great idea!
Hi there and thank you, it’s such a fun thing to try!
Hello Janette
That's a fantastic first attempt. I bet it will look lovely with lights on next year.
Hi Sharon! I had not thought of that 👍👍 my next year’s Christmas tree 🎄 🥳🥳🤩
Nice job.. You got an eye..
Hope you and Richard had a great christmas. All the best in new year
Thanks so much Chris and Happy New Year to you too 🥳🥳🥳
Good morning Jannet. Oopys I'm so sorry about that not Annette . So glad to hear your tree is doing well, truly enjoying your videos. Sincerely Tracey Rose.
Oh that’s ok Tracey Rose, it made me smile 😊 thanks for watching all my videos!! Hope you have a really happy Friday too ♥️
Great job! Thank you for doing a spiral, can't wait to try it.
Thanks so much Sharon, do give it a go, it’s a lot of fun 🤩
Thankyou I've been looking at so many spiral topiary and ure video was so much more realistic. Had same trouble with bare patches etc and I think u did GR8 job!xx
Hi Sarah Louise and thank you!! I had watched so many too!! It was the top bit that seemed to go peculiar on mine, but I had wanted to try for ages. I still have it, now planted in my garden. Thanks for watching 🥰
Hi Jeannette,
It is the same for us in Toronto: lockdown and unable to gather with people outside of our households. We have a few of these dwarf Alberta spruce in our garden as well. Last year we also turned one of them into a topiary. Well done 👍. Happy new year to you Jeannette! ❤️👍🇨🇦
Hi Tracy and thank you for watching. It seems to be getting worse here by the day so stay safe and Happy New Year 🥳🥳
Well done Janette. You are so brave 😍. I’ll have to buy one and have a go.
Hi Lil, yes you must 🤣🤣 thanks for watching and Happy New Year 🥳🥳
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Happy new year 🥳🥳
Wow, great job! You made that sis. Thank you for sharing, would of never known it was your first.
Hello!! Thank you, I had a lot of fun doing that 🥳🥳🤩
Well that was pretty cool 😎 shout out to Chris is right on point he’s got an amazing channel❤️ thank you for showing us this👍 have a happy new year 🎊
Hi Jerry, well I had envied the shapes you have tried in your front garden and really wanted to give it a go. Lots of fun. Yes, Chris has a great channel too! 😍😍
This is so pretty ! I can’t wait to see one this large and to make a topiary ! I really want to have a spiral ❤️❤️
Hi there Razvan, it was easier than I imagined. You must give it a try 😍
Hello. Loving your green coat it goes well with the winter seasons. Loving what you did. I would of butchered it to pieces LOL good job!!
Hi there Mrs Milkshake, that is my ‘dog walking’ coat really and it has paint all over it too as I’m a messy painter so I’ve ruined it really but it’s quite old so I don’t really mind. It is a lovely colour though. Thanks for your lovely encouragement, I keep looking at the spiral and wanting to cut more off so I’m having to stop myself 🤣🤣🥳😍
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener oh wow I thought it was new! I need glasses LOL
You are really brave and did an amazing job!
🤣🤣 thank you, it was great fun 🤩
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Were you nervous to start? I think I would have been.
@@TheGardenGram well I just thought if it doesn’t work I will delete the video and no-one will be any the wiser 🤣🤣🤣
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener hahaha, so true! I've done that before.
@@TheGardenGram 🤣🤣🤣
You did a great job!!
🤣🤣 it’s still alive, I planted it in the garden!
You did a fantastic job Jeanette! You have a talent for topiary art!❤️
Hello Mary!! Thank you so much, it didn’t turn out too bad did it? 🥳🥳🤩
It's lovely!! Looking forward to seeing the other one after its transformation 👍
Hello and thank you so much for subscribing! And Happy New Year 🥳
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Happy New Year to you too!
Wow Beautiful! Happy New Year! :)
Ah thank you so much and Happy New Year to you and your family 🥳🥳🥳
Hi Janette, we went to visit our grandkids on Christmas day, now we've joined you in tier 4
So no visits anymore.
I fancy owning a bonsai, so I look forward to watching that one.
Poor tree! What a scalping! 😊
It looked great when you finished
well done for having the courage to attack it like that.
There was a point where I thought uhoh but you did good mate👍
I honestly think I would have kept going on and on and ruined it you did a great job.
Can you use the cuttings to try to root them?
Happy new year to you and Richard
Oh no tier 4 for you too! It’s just getting worse by the day everywhere isn’t it peach? Glad you got to see your grandchildren while you could, that must have been so lovely.
Well I had an awful lot of fun trying my spiral topiary, I had watched so many ‘how to’ videos on YT but actually going in for the first cut is a bit of a gulp moment 🤣 but you have to amuse yourself somehow in a lockdown 🤣🤣
So cold today Steve! 🥶 ❄️ maybe it will snow? 😍
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I literally just got back from taking my son to his physio appointment in Colchester and according to the car thermometer it's 1 C presently
So you might be right about snow, I hope my worms are wrapped up cosy😊
steve's growing space oh make sure Wally is nice and warm. Snow, bring it on! We can't go anywhere anyway 😁
you did well on your 1st try.
Thanks Dessy, i keep wanting to cut more off 🤣🤣
Looks fab, please let us see you doing the other one too.
As much as I’d like two of them, I don’t know that I could bear to paint another one 🤣🤣
No I meant with the trees 😂
Oh Sandra!! 🤣🤣🤣 I thought you were talking about my greenhouse 🤣🤣 how funny. Yes, I’m going to try a bonsai with the other one, I’ve been watching a wonderful man called Peter who has a channel called Herons Bonsai and honestly you can sit there watching him and lose all track of time 🤣 he has made bonsais out of the exact same Alberta Spruce and so I am going to give it a go. Hopefully this week because we are back in lockdown over here so I have more time on my hands. I will show the video even if it turns out rubbish, which is quite possible! Thanks so much for watching 😍
Oh im watching your greenhouse videos too, can’t wait to see it finished. I love your enthusiasm and am binge watching your videos, I have a couple of bonsai but am too scared to trim them 😂, I have a big garden but some is on a slope, so quite difficult to plant/weed so am always looking for ideas etc, really enjoying your channel. Sandra x
@@sandramasson3023 ah that’s so nice of you Sandra. I just think you should do a few little snips here and there, what’s the worse that can happen 🤣🤣
Hope you had a merry Christmas as well. I think it looks great, especially for a first try! Better than I would have done. Take care!
Hi there! Thanks so much, been wanting to do one for ages 😍
You did a great job for your first time...don't cut the top off!! LOL
Hey Deborah thank you. I so want to cut the top off 🤣🤣
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Seriously every cut you made I flinched. But I did admire both your abandon and confidence...Linda would be proud!!
Can't wait to see what you do with Christmas tree #2. I will make sure I have wine...
Oh Deborah that’s so funny!! I’m sorry I have turned you to drink 🤣🤣 I’m going to bonsai the next one, you’d better get a couple of bottles 🍷 in for that one. I may join you 🤣🤣😍 thanks so much for your lovely comments
Bravo
Thank you Sharon 😍
Hi! I noticed you cut of the top … so I’m just curious if it lived? I want to do this too but I want to make sure I can keep it alive. It looks fabulous!
Hello there and thank you. Yes I did cut the top off. It just seemed to look odd otherwise. But yes, it has survived and has since been planted in my landscape. I’d just always wanted to give it a try and it was easier than I thought. I did watch other videos on spiral topiary on YT first then just went for it. Give it a go, it’s a lot of fun 🤩 when I do my August garden tour I will make sure to show it. It doesn’t look a lot different because Alberta Spruces are quite slow growers. 😍
You are definitely brave and it looks great! I have the same type of mini Alberta Spruce and thought about doing the same thing. It takes time. Plus it can always grow back if you don’t like something, right?
Oh Lauren you have to give it a go!! But do watch the experts on YT first - don’t copy my mistakes!! But who cares if it goes wrong, it’s all fun anyway. 🤣🤣😍
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener totally agree about educating yourself first. I will probably need to watch many many videos before I get my nerve up to try. But thank you for being brave and trying yours on YT. I think it looks great. Can’t wait for your bonsai. 😍
@@laurenwellman2516 oh yes I am excited to try the bonsai. 😄
I would totally mess up the cut. That is a tough cut, maybe you need a taller plant.
Yes, you are probably right there!! 🥳🥳😍
Think you taken too much off that baby one maybe not go straight to the stem of tree whilst they are growing
Hello Tina and yes I think you are right. This was my first ever attempt, I think 2 years ago (haven’t done another since) but I still have it planted in the garden. Might try another sometime and I’ll bear your advice in mind. 🥰
Horrible job
Sorry you didn’t like it Melinda 🫤😊