Trees

Description on the RHS Plants site.Buy eating / dessert apple apple 'Cox's Orange Pippin self fertile'

The crab looks like it has a decent trunk thickness so you could get away with removing some of the lower growth but it doesn't look to bad to me, as it is. I'd probably leave it if it was mine unless there are any branches that interfere with each other or areas where you want to stimulate...

yeah... I hacked at the roots a bit and pulled them out.

If you are to replace fence panels with new, then fit a gravel board ,timber (or concrete if budget permits). This will protect the new panels from decay and allow an increase in soil levl over time. The remaining retained panels can be done either now or as they need replacing

I assume once the bud has broken and the flower has emerged that that bud cant flower again, I think it could possibly cause some dieback of stems.I think you can cut these stems in the winter and bring them into a warm room where the buds will burst.

My alders seed madly into the grazing areas, so I have to get them out before it reverts to scrub. I don't get elder at all. I do get guelder rose, which apparently also likes damp. @Adam I I just checked on woodland trust site, and they also say alder is a swamp dweller!

While I'd normally agree re staking something newly moved @Allotment Boy , it's only 2 feet in height, so it should be fine unless it's in a very exposed site, and in looser/lighter soil. Perhaps @Emjay can clarify, or post a pic?

@CarolineL those knobbly lumps on the root stock are where they want to send out new roots. If you buried it deeper they would continue to grow but as they are above ground, they just get air pruned.

That's very unpleasant for you @Friendly, re those neighbours, as well as bl**dy infuriating. Being on your own makes everything much harder to deal with, and they probably know that. Fear of reprisals etc.

I think climate has changed enough to enable them to seed. I was just remarking today how different the plants are that I can confidently grow outside compared to when I started about 60 years ago ( 8 year old, trying to grow chrysanthemum Court jester from t & m seed catalogue!)

If you want to keep the salix, I'd be inclined to make that lower raised area [with the slate/statues etc] the same height as the rest of the bed. You'd have more scope with planting to hide the slanted trunk, and as the drainage is poor and the willow helps with that, it'll also make it easier...

We have crab apple trees in my road and somebody parks his big van outside my house, during windy weather it's like a symphony with all the different tones from different parts of the roof.

Wanted to say the same. If cut at the base ivy dies, it only attaches itself to the tree. It's how council treats ivy that tries to climb old "london planes" in the park next to me.

Thanks for the replies, I may have to get my tree surgeon to check how much of an issue it is.

I think there has always been posters that probably post the same question on multiple forums, then forget where they posted some of them.

Thanks for all the feedback.Hopefully it is what some of you say and that the warm weather is at play. It isn't as hot up here in Scotland but there have been some warm days. Fingers crossed it is that.

I get some blotchy leaves on mine @Plantminded , but generally, it's fine, as it's now more mature. Biggest problem is pigeons sitting on the young branches to eat the berries, and breaking them! Mine is in a very narrow raised bed, next to my back fence, and the base faces north west, so it...

Thanks everyone for the inpit. I was more wondering if they had a possible use/reason to be grown here. I looked online and saw all the ways they use them in there natural range but we have plenty of woods that's replace those uses here. I didn't know if they were used in the medical industry or...

Without trying to worry you, that's an awfully big tree for only 6 years in the ground (even if it was planted at a large size) and I think it's worth considering that if it is a wild prunus, they get absolutely enormous and have a suckering habit. It's not a tree most would advise to have near...

When you take the tree out of its pot, the compost should come with it. the rootball should be reaching the edges of the pot so it should come out in one "lump". If there are a lot of roots circling around the outside you can gently tease them out and spread them into the new compost, otherwise...