Help needed for a memory tree

Hi Everone.

This is my first time on the forum and I am hoping to get some advice, let me explain........ I am very new to gardening, so new that I have just had my garden blocked paved because I couldn't cope with the grass!! I now have a lovely garden with a few big pots with plants in, my mum carefully selected for me and that I enjoy tending to.

Now here comes the question, I have recently suffered a loss and would like to plant something in their memory. I am getting a largish, tallish pot and would like something that doesnâ??t need too much care (I donâ??t want that to die on me too), something with a bit of height and something that produces lovely flowers/colours. I already a rose tree so am looking for something different.


This is probably as clear as mud but Iâ??m looking forward to receiving some advice.

Thanks

 

Hi Bub,


I had a Japanese CHerry Blossom for much the same reason. They are beautiful.

 

I agree the cherry blossom looks great, would it be suitable for a pot or too big :cnfs:

Thanks for your help

 

Fine for a pot, they are aften bonsai'd.

If you get yourself down to your local garden centre-not B&Q-a proper one then you should find something very suitable.


Another option is a Japanese Acer.................hmmm a theme is starting here, but these two are beautiful trees.

 

A rose or a camelia or for something completely different Sambucus pink lace with black leaves and pink blossom

 

I like Magnolia Stellata. I have one in a pot ... well, I bought it two years ago in a standard Garden Centre pot and have yet to plant it out :( but still this is a picture, taken through my study window, of the tail-end-Charlie of it flowering in mid April