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Astraeus
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Hello all, hope you're enjoying this late summer.
I have a dilemma, with which I'd be very grateful for some help from you far more experienced gardeners. It is a "which tree for this scenario?" query. The site, within my small 18x15m garden, currently looks like this (with the mess having been created today from me having cleared out some shrubs in the border):
The annotations indicate the aspect and, in white lines, the view that I am looking to protect with a tree. It is from our seating area to a wide, bi-fold door in next door's plot. The coloured square is the location in which I think the tree needs to be planted in order to block the view (with the 'screen' required at a height of around 2m-3m). My tree shortlist (with me ultimately looking to plant two or three, two to go on the north-facing side of the garden, to the right of the above shot) is currently as follows:
- amelanchier x grandiflora 'Robin Hill'
- sorbus commixta 'Embley'
- malus 'Evereste' or 'Red Sentinel'
Of those, which would you recommend to me for this site please? It is south-facing and one of the warmer parts of the garden. If one flowers more remarkably than others in a sunny spot, that may make up my mind for me. I don't want that aspect to be wasted on a tree that would flourish equally well on the other, north-facing side of the garden. Also, it being my intention to get a young tree, I am undecided between multi-stem or not. For earlier impact, I presume multi-stem will help and I presume it will still allow me to maintain its densest foliage between 2m and 4m, in which case it is likely to be preferable to a standard (noting that the cost is not prohibitive).
Am I going far wrong with the above idea and, if not, which tree would people recommend to me for this site please?
Thank you for your help.
A.
I have a dilemma, with which I'd be very grateful for some help from you far more experienced gardeners. It is a "which tree for this scenario?" query. The site, within my small 18x15m garden, currently looks like this (with the mess having been created today from me having cleared out some shrubs in the border):
The annotations indicate the aspect and, in white lines, the view that I am looking to protect with a tree. It is from our seating area to a wide, bi-fold door in next door's plot. The coloured square is the location in which I think the tree needs to be planted in order to block the view (with the 'screen' required at a height of around 2m-3m). My tree shortlist (with me ultimately looking to plant two or three, two to go on the north-facing side of the garden, to the right of the above shot) is currently as follows:
- amelanchier x grandiflora 'Robin Hill'
- sorbus commixta 'Embley'
- malus 'Evereste' or 'Red Sentinel'
Of those, which would you recommend to me for this site please? It is south-facing and one of the warmer parts of the garden. If one flowers more remarkably than others in a sunny spot, that may make up my mind for me. I don't want that aspect to be wasted on a tree that would flourish equally well on the other, north-facing side of the garden. Also, it being my intention to get a young tree, I am undecided between multi-stem or not. For earlier impact, I presume multi-stem will help and I presume it will still allow me to maintain its densest foliage between 2m and 4m, in which case it is likely to be preferable to a standard (noting that the cost is not prohibitive).
Am I going far wrong with the above idea and, if not, which tree would people recommend to me for this site please?
Thank you for your help.
A.
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I have a red sentinel and its a lovely tree but it's becoming wide in comparison to height, in its 3rd year in my garden.
Amelchanier is perfect multi stemmed more like a large shrub personally I'd go for that.
I like sorbus Joseph rock best.
Red Sentinel
That crab apple looks lovely.