Kitty2 You are absolutely right I’ve become addicted but don’t tell everyone lol 😂 My friend sent me a photo of one and he’d found out it was planted in the late 1800’s it was beautiful and wish it was mine.
I hope you have room to plant a few that will reach their magnificent maturity ... it's so sad to see them as we usually do, cramped up in tiny front gardens, and then butchered to try to keep them manageable and later felled at great expense before they reach their prime.
There's no way I'd plant an oak tree, a Canadian Redwood or a Scots Pine in a suburban garden and yet people plant 'Monkey Puzzles' in unsuitable places all the time. So sad.
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Eh when the mature I’ve decided I will become Garden Police and make sure they know what they are buying and how much room they will need.I recently saw one and must take a photo of it, they have had all the branches chopped off and it had been left looking like some umbrella, a total disaster and a complete waste!!They should be locked up or cut it completely down !!!!!!!!!
There's one near here that's been decapitated ...now it's thrown out multiple shoots at the top and looks like some sort of a ridiculous shaving brush ... no one with less than three acres of land should ever grow one ...
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We just have the one tree, it is lovely - it is about 20 ft + tall now, still young in a tree's life - planted to celebrate our daughter's christening 36 years ago. Perhaps you could offer some to a nearby Park/council or stately home Puzzle007? They are expensive to buy and often have to be especially ordered.
I am growing some oak and twisted willow saplings, I don't know why as I have difficulty getting rid of them. I just fancied a new challenge, little realizing how easy they would be to get started and how difficult it would be to find homes for them - could we start a tree from seed/cutting club perhaps?
And one mustn't look 'a gift horse' in the mouth, so to speak ... what can't be cured must be endured ... and there are probably more aphorisms we can twist to suit
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Very true Dove and I like it as it doesn't cast too much shade. The giant seed pods raining down all over the place are a pain in the wotsit though. I have to actually rake/sweep them up and remove them or the mower spits them out at me when I run over them
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You are absolutely right I’ve become addicted but don’t tell everyone lol 😂 My friend sent me a photo of one and he’d found out it was planted in the late 1800’s it was beautiful and wish it was mine.
There's no way I'd plant an oak tree, a Canadian Redwood or a Scots Pine in a suburban garden and yet people plant 'Monkey Puzzles' in unsuitable places all the time. So sad.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think Guernsey Donkey its a great idea of getting some kind of tree club going!!!