Really cool plant abuse

[jerryswife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjE746ujXJI

[porcupine kate]

That is really cool.  I wonder if sculptures will be started at Burning Porc next summer?

[Russell Kanning]

i don't think we really have any good bushes to sculpt, but some could be planted. I put a few boxwoods at varrin's that may someday be trimmed as porcupines. We could do those and maybe hemlock bushes for shaping or mazes we have also talked about raspberry mazes in the lowlands

[jerryswife]

these trees are bent and grafted, so it actually takes years to do it.

[Russell Kanning]

after watching the video ... something like that would be interesting to attempt .... i could see trying to get a tree or bush to act like a fence or wall ... but it would take a long time

[Pat K]

after watching the video ... something like that would be interesting to attempt .... i could see trying to get a tree or bush to act like a fence or wall ... but it would take a long time

Yeah and if you want them to tell jokes and swallow fire
it takes even longer.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Russell.  Did you see this?

[Russell Kanning]

that is the definition of cool .... how could you burn that wood