Trees

More food for thought in this interesting article in today's Guardian, discussing whether we should be helping tree species to migrate northwards, to help mitigate the effects of climate change. It's something the trees have been doing for themselves anyway; humans can speed the process up, but...

There are literally hundreds of shrubs of all sizes, like the ones I mentioned earlier, but what gets chose depends on the amount of room for them, and the time available for maintenance, and the climate and soil are also factors in the eventual size anything reaches. Ones which can be reliably...

I think you can find on the internet the chemicals that are OK to use.

Appears pretty good to me too ; very vigorous when established !

I was talking with an exhibitor at Royal Welsh show the other week who was promoting growing various trees for biomass. Amongst them was pawlonia! He had a sample plant to show farmers but didn't know how beautifully they flower. They were also suggesting robinia, eucalyptus (though the nasty...

I had a laburnum which grew two strong shoots from the base, I twined them around each other making a spiral.It looked good for about 20 years but I did some pruning a few years ago and it's let in some kind of fungus which has pretty much ruined the tree.

Okay I promise not to leave them sitting in a saucer of waterCurrently on the lookout for three new wider bottomed pots.

I will clear up the leaves for my compost - down to the last leaf on the gravel.We've had the joy of blackbirds nesting in the hedge. The young are now being taught to forage - in our back garden.

thankyou

There are quite a number of factors about planting trees near houses, especially oaks. The recommended distance for an oak to be from a house is 1.25 times the height of the tree. So they need to take into account the eventual height. Oak roots can actually spread three times the height of...

The one I chopped off back in the spring has sprouts all over the trunk. It's not gone back to juvenile foliage though.

I'd do the transplant now, expose as much of the trunk as you can without exposing roots, support it if necessary and water like buggery...into the crown, daily, until it's had time to readjust to it's new home

When you re pot it use a loam based compost like John Innes no3 not a multipurpose potting compost, make sure there are drainage holes in the bottom of the pot!

Not sure about the black spots looks like scab of some kind, but there looks like a possible aphid attack. Bit of a dead snag in the last picture.

Many thanks @Plantminded, that is reassuring. I will get the area around it cleared tomorrow and give it a good soak, then get some OM down.The Lady I bought the house from had been here 35 years and clearly loved the garden and I would hate for it to met it’s demise on my watch, so it will...

They can easily get loose, and/or toppled so it's worth staking it well for the next year or two. If the soil's lighter, that's even more possible than when in a heftier soil. A newly planted tree, especially one of a decent size [which it is] will take many, many months to establish, as...

Thanks @Ladybird4 !

Well in that case it will be better in the ground rather than a pot. A hose allowed to trickle at the base of the tree for an hour a couple of times a week if we get a drought, should be enough.

That was during the drought. I believe all trees around us survived from my water

I've got a malus Neville Copeman which is nice and fits your criteria apart from the flowers might be a little dark.