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Suggestions for trees suitable for containers

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Amelanchier could be kept in a big planter.
    Devon.
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    If you can get a very large container, you could try something like an Ornamental Pear tree like Pyrus Calleryana 'Chanticleer' or Weeping Pear Tree, Pyrus Salicifolia Pendula. There's a row of the Ornamental Pear trees growing in troughs around 1 metre by metre on the estate where I live. They seem to be doing well.

    Something like the Mount Edna Broom, Genista Aetnensis would also look nice in a large container. Lovely scented flowers in early to mid summer and a graceful habit with almost evergreen leaves, I think they will do fine in a container for a while.
  • I have a number of acres which are growing in containers, need a bit of attention especially in the summer
  • I regularly pass some photinia red robin that are trained to grow as trees rather than shrubs in large containers and they seem to look good all year round. I think laurus nobilis (bay laurel) can also be grown successfully in containers.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Much depends on how much effort you're prepared to put into watering, feeding , clipping etc.
    Devon.
  • AlchemistAlchemist Posts: 273
    Take a look at Prunus Kojo-no-mai and see what you think. It’s doesn’t get too big, has great spring flowers, a tidy form and slow growing. Just make sure you buy the largest specimen possible, as after 4 years my foot tall has grown to two feet in a pot.
  • How about a variety of Chaenomeles lots of lovely blossom and shouldn't be difficult to keep happy in a large pot. Also a Cercis Chinensis aka Chinese Redbud, lovely early spring flowers and wonderful autumnal colour.
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • FatsiaFatsia Posts: 35
    So many wonderful suggestions, I'll have great fun deciding! 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I've got a salix boydii growing happily in a pot. It's a lovely native willow but probably not much of a tree by most people's standards.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    A TREE in a pot. :o

    Thats like a budgie in a cage............. it should not happen.
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
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