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Choice of sorbus
I want to plant a sorbus in the lawn of my quite small garden but the choice is overwhelming. Some sites give Joseph Rock, for instance, as being small and some have it quite large.
My list of wants is excellent autumn colour, multi berried, about 4m tall and 2m wide and very attractive to wildlife. Research tells me that Sorbus vilmorinii might be good? Sorbus hostii might be too small?
Does anyone have experience of the above? Thanks muchly.
Annabel
My list of wants is excellent autumn colour, multi berried, about 4m tall and 2m wide and very attractive to wildlife. Research tells me that Sorbus vilmorinii might be good? Sorbus hostii might be too small?
Does anyone have experience of the above? Thanks muchly.
Annabel
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Quite small or quite large tree size may be down to whether they are giving a full mature age size or (as some sites do) "growth after ten years" is a typical reference and can be somewhat short of the full mature growth.
Also the aspect of your garden might help others to help you.
Good luck I always wanted to have a Sorbus of some kind but we don't have the room.
The other trees, in case you are wondering, are amelanchier x grandiflora Robin Hill and malus Evereste. All were picked after painstaking research about value to wildlife, mature size and conditions.