I don't know about being well behaved ; it was competing and overshadowed by a 40' Metasequoia glyptostroboides which (very unfortunately) we had to have felled three years ago . Probably slowed the Aralia down a bit ! ****
Even though about 50' from the house , the roots of this were forcing their way beneath our backyard and had already lifted my greenhouse .
That was indeed a sad day as this was a stunningly shaped specimen . Just getting too massive for my garden . It even coned yearly .
Yes , the variegated forms are prohibitively expensive ; I believe they're all grafted onto the green form as you state , hence the suckering habit .
Good to contact someone who appreciates something slightly different !
**** We kept 10' of the remarkably convoluted and buttressed trunk of this , purely for aesthetic reasons ; it's completely dead now . I removed all the bark and it now makes for a 'different' garden ornament !
Standing like a sentinel , it is a reminder of when my step-daughter was 14-years old , and we came back from the Roger Plant Centre in North Yorkshire with the (then) 5' tree crammed into the back of my car !! That was way back in 1987 . Happy days !
Regardless of the tree you choose, 2 foot away from a pond is far, far too close. Within a few years the roots of the tree will have grown and there is every chance the sides and bottom of the pond will become distorted with the roots growing underneath it. I would go for a minimum of 6 foot even if it is a small tree and even more, the bigger the tree.
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