Find a particularly choice specimen, take a photograph, frame it and hang it on the wall. Much the safest. Even then, it might make its way into the next room.
Thank you everyone. I have a few acers and I love them. I like the Sorbus Autumn Spire very much, but it's a bit too upright for my liking and the Chinese Lace is also lovely but too feathery.
I don't look at any of them and think "I'd like to wander around my garden and say hello to you every day" in the same way that I do the Rhus.
I like the idea of the giant tub - I'd worry about sinking it into the ground but I also take the point that it wouldn't be happy confined to a pot.
I *almost* wish that a neighbour already had it and then I could tut at the suckers being sent into my garden but secretly be happy that I'd have no choice because it's already there!
I hadn’t really considered Sorbus until Lirio mentioned it, then coincidentally Joe Swift had an article in the Times Weekend mag today, with some more spreading, arching ones featured, if you are not so keen on the more upright ones. Don’t know if this link will work, but if not, look at S. Villmorinii, Cashmiriana, Ulleungensis Olympic Flame, Leonard Messel, Wisley Gold, Bissetii Pearls...
Thank you Nollie. Of all those trees I like the Olympic Flame, but I don't know, the Sorbus just doesn't have the same effect for me. I was talking to a friend this weekend who had two Rhus trees. She said that one of them suckered all over the place (mainly in next door's garden), even after having been removed, while the other seems not to have done so at all. She said they have different flowers so she wondered whether one was male and one female? I will go see soon and report back.
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I don't look at any of them and think "I'd like to wander around my garden and say hello to you every day" in the same way that I do the Rhus.
I like the idea of the giant tub - I'd worry about sinking it into the ground but I also take the point that it wouldn't be happy confined to a pot.
I *almost* wish that a neighbour already had it and then I could tut at the suckers being sent into my garden but secretly be happy that I'd have no choice because it's already there!
Almost.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-best-tree-for-small-gardens-try-a-sorbus-95zrjlzbn?shareToken=bcb47a441fa588f4b976f01e473a8895