Trees

Thanks everyone!

Providing you take care of the transporting and transplanting and after care it should be ok. If you can transport it in a van it would be beneficial, as this will protect it from the wind while traveling. Take as big a root ball as you can wet it and wrap in plastic to avoid drying out. Have a...

Wow! that is one beaut of an Owl sculpture .

Not necessary I wouldn't have thought but won't hurt as long as its not the rubber backed stuff that's impervious to water!

Gotta be worth it elaine :D

Thanks everyone. I will see how it goes and plant another tree if needs be. We don't need as many apples as there were too many for us to use anyway, but it would still be nice to get a reasonable crop.

Looks like this to mehttp://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0901/bracket_fungi.asp

I assume they are small trees, as you have just planted them. If there is a forecast of frost, wrap them in horticultural fleece, this will afford some protection. This is what I would do. Good luck, Fonzie.

I don't think they solve anything, LoL, but it's good to see them, showing so clearly what the ones I found on-line didn't - that the branches are quite definitely alternate, not opposite. So we're still in the same position, that a rowan is the more likely, and probably the Joseph Rock...

Yes - Pete is correct. White mulberry is from China and is the one for silkworms. It can grow outdoors in warmer places in Britain and was often grown in city and town gardens for the silk weavers. Black mulberry is the hardier tree and the much more common one now found in Britain. Better...

Thank you all so much for your advice. The tree really isn't very big. I think our big misake was about 15 years ago we moved it when she moved into Sheltered accomodation. It's never really been the same since. There's no top on it as such as we were advised to cut it down and start again,...

People regularly mention good deals they've got, so I wouldn't worry too much, Stephen! Not sure I want a silver birch, though, they get big rather quickly, and I have a couple of tiny ones that were volunteers in one of the gardens I do..... They'll be moved on as and when they get a bit...

Now David, THAT is a proposition I have never heard suggested before. I would be interested to hear the source of your knowledge in this direction Vertrees in his famous book on the subject suggests "Fall colours .. can be suppressed or enhanced somewhat by conditions. Hardening for fall will...

Look at the link on my previous post. The size of the tree will be largely determined by the rootstock. In such a position you could get two espalier trees that you train along wires on the wall. You could easily fit more than two if you used cordons and plant them at an angle. Espaliers and...

The second looks to me like p. atropurpureum, and the third, I think, is Brilliantissimum. David.

siriusb - for my two pennyworth, think of what you want to achieve from the site - if its remembrance and you don't know what your friend liked - then think of colour and interest through the seasons. Spring flowers, summer foliage, autumn colour/fruit, and winter interest.For spring flowers...

Oppps - or should that be ooooops!!!! :D

if they have sharp, strap-like leavs then it is likely that they are either Cordylines or Yuccas. If that is the case all you need to do to protect them from frost is to draw the leaves together and tie them, this prevents frost from entering the crown and killing it. There is no need to rush...

are you going to start one Pete. Put my name down for one please.