Small trees?

[campanula]

oh yes, would definately concur that the tibetan cherry is gorgeous although, for graceful blossom which goes on forever, P subhirtella autumnalis , especially the white flowered, is hard to beat. Have you checked out my own personal favourites - sorbus. The common Mountain Ash can get quite large but there are some absolutely fabulous varieties-_I have S.vilmorinii and the white berried S.cashmeriana. Redbuds, either the Judas tree, cercis siliaquestrum or Forest pansy, Cercis canadensis have a lot going for them. Much depends on soil and climate - If I had a less alkaline soil, I would deffo be looking at an arbutus and also enkianthus campanulatus. Losing a mature tree is always sad but it is an opportunity.....

[Stefanie]

Hey Lulu,

Is the oak still standing or have you taken it down and if it’s down what have you replaced it with? There has been an fantastic selection of trees in this thread and I would love to know which one ‘won’ the race?

[Lulu-amongst-the-blooms]

Originally Posted by Stefanie

Hey Lulu,

Is the oak still standing or have you taken it down and if it’s down what have you replaced it with? There has been an fantastic selection of trees in this thread and I would love to know which one ‘won’ the race?

The oak is down and we are moving it slowly, its too hot to slog wood really.

I will update when we have made a final decision.

On the search i have fallen in love with a lot of trees. We have more garden tree planting to do, but not tis year, so i am getting a very long list of 'in the future' trees.

[Flordel]

Lulu, could you please tell us which small trees you are considering in the future?
I need to plant another tree in the fall or spring. Because of the intense heat this summer one of the trees I've planted in spring has died and another one is not looking too good either, I could use some ideas.

[Lulu-amongst-the-blooms]

Ok, well purely based onthat i could get two for under £20 i got a june berry and the lamarckii in an online tree sale. They are here now in pots, in exceptionally good condition and i feel its a real bargain.

I am still quite keen to throw a broad leaf deciduous tree into the mix there, if there is room. Its hard to guage with the builders there atm.

I would also like to throw in a good word for the pink pseudo acasia i bought this spring. I just love this tree, and its pretty pink flower is really winning.

I do love the flowering hawthorn and would not be surprised if one appears in the back garden plans. Its just too astounding when in blossom.

I also still really like the strawberry tree.

Azara microphyillia sounds wonderful, with its vanilla scent....might find a place between us and the cow barn for an obvious reason!

Lynothamus floribundas aspleniifolius is just remarkable, but wrong for here, as are all the beautiful cherries i think. But a cherry with that stunning copper bark still calls to me for the back, along with a smaller, whiter eucalyptus, though i am fighting the urge to plant something so depleting behind a boarder.


So, for the front, we might be sorted, but don't be surprised if i squeeze another in. For the back, well we are not ready yet, hopefully NEXT year those leylandii stumps might be ready to come out, then we can plant trees and give them a couple of years to establish before I can finally do what will be the biggest boarder we will have here.

I also love, love love my burnt sugar tree, i think its called candy floss tree in UK? Its had a tough couple of weeks, it hated that sudden hot spell but loved the cold wet weeks and months.

[Flordel]

I've just looked them up, they're all beautiful, I guess we have the same taste!
In my mind I have always thought of Juneberry as being a big bush, not a tree, but I've now seen that it does grow taller. I really like the leaves' color in fall. Pseudo acacia is Honeylocust, isn't it? I can't plant it because we have a hill full of it at our vacation house and my father has voted against it in the garden as well.
The hawthorn I've planted is dead, or so I think, it didn't leaf out in spring. By the way, does anyone think I should leave it until spring? Is there any hope maybe?
Azara microphyillia I haven't seen in garden centers around here, it looks pretty.
Lynothamus floribundas aspleniifolius, this is nice tree, but it seems to get quite big, too big for my small garden.
The Candy Floss tree or Katsura tree I can get, I've seen it in some online offers, but you say that it doesn't like dry and hot weather, so it's not good for my location. Too bad, it has leaves similar to the Cercis siliquastrum that I've also planted and which seems that it's in a coma, I've tried to rescue it by drowning it in water but the patient is not responding too well.

[Lulu-amongst-the-blooms]

Well, i have had it in a dryish garden before. Tbh a lot has struggled this year in the sudden heat (even my roses, and it certainly has not been too hot for them, i think it was the sudden change).

I would certainly leave your hawthorn til spring. We set fire to a hedgerow hawtorn last summer and its come back. .

[campanula]

the rose acacia is a lovely specimen tree but can have a problem with losing branches - like all the locusts, gleditsia in particular. Try not to site it in a windy corridor. Does it have lilac-y flowers or is it the daintier shell pink version (Casca-rouge or summat like?). On your to buy list, put some of the sorbus aria (esp.Wilfred Fox) or sorbus intermedia (Swedish whitebeam) - fantastic trees with a wide range of dependent creatures.

[Lulu-amongst-the-blooms]

Ours is the variety 'pink cascade' i think. I just love it. We had the normal yellow one, a very old tree, at my parents house for eight years but i opted not to get one of the many suckers. The foliage is beautiful but the yellow flower is not what i want here. I did not know there were different shades of pink though.....most of my tree purchases are bargains or opportunities so while i don't buy every thing i see i have to act quickly from either hope or a list long compiled.

Speakiong of which, i need to think about my bare root order of roses for this year. There were a fair few on the sale list from PBeales i would have liked had i any gardening budget left at the end of last year......but never mind. I might keep two roses worth of money back this year so i can indulge in the sale.

[campanula]

'two roses worth of money back this year so i can indulge in the sale.'

Bless!