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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  January 2022

  For some great autumn colour there's the compact spindle bush
  https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/euonymus-alatus-compactus/classid.2000033519/
  
  Or Pencil Cedar, or a minarette fruit tree maybe
  Or for some drama Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Rex' - but that may be too OTT
  It looks a nice sunny site, so I'm sure there are plenty of options depending on your soil type 
  
  
  

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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• robairdmacraignil Posts: 782

  January 2022

  A purple leaved variety of elder flower might be an option.

  
  

  Happy gardening!
  

  https://www.youtube.com/user/sustainableveg/videos
  

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• KeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831

  January 2022

  A columnar variety of Amelanchier (berries, blossom, Autumn colour). I believe Ballerina is a columnar variety, it won't take up much space.

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• LeadFarmer Posts: 1,500

  January 2022 edited January 2022

  Nice garden.
  
  A fruit tree, or a tree for pollinators? Im considering buying a Heptacodium miconiodes Seven Son Flower tree for my garden as pollinators love it, and it's quite an interesting tree visually. I just need to find somewhere that sells it.

  
  

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  January 2022

  LeadFarmer said:

  Im considering buying a Heptacodium miconiodes Seven Son Flower tree for my garden as pollinators love it, and it's quite an interesting tree visually. I just need to find somewhere that sells it.

  I recall Joe Swift singing its praises a while ago on GW.
  According to the RHS there are 43 suppliers - click below for the list-
  
  https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/nurseries-search-result?query=75426&pageSize=20&startFrom=40
  

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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• thevictorian Posts: 1,279

  January 2022

  I think a nice crab apple would be good. You can get some with columnar growth habits and they have both flowers and fruit.

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• LeadFarmer Posts: 1,500

  January 2022

  Pete.8 said:

  LeadFarmer said:

  Im considering buying a Heptacodium miconiodes Seven Son Flower tree for my garden as pollinators love it, and it's quite an interesting tree visually. I just need to find somewhere that sells it.

  I recall Joe Swift singing its praises a while ago on GW.
  According to the RHS there are 43 suppliers - click below for the list-
  
  https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/nurseries-search-result?query=75426&pageSize=20&startFrom=40
  

  Thanks, I will have a look through those suppliers.

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  January 2022

  LeadFarmer said:

  Nice garden.
  
  A fruit tree, or a tree for pollinators? Im considering buying a Heptacodium miconiodes Seven Son Flower tree for my garden as pollinators love it, and it's quite an interesting tree visually. I just need to find somewhere that sells it.

  
  

  Heptacodium miconioides....super tree...interesting leaf veins  and  flaking bark.
  Lots of flowers..followed by red calyx.

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Plantminded Posts: 3,580

  January 2022

  Sold @Silver surfer, I want one! Definitely good value out of one plant, great photos, thank you for posting.

  Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.
  
  
  

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• adam.mg Posts: 30

  January 2022

  It think a fringe tree would look lovely there. Chionanthus Virginicus. 

  https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/3732/i-chionanthus-virginicus-i/details
  

  In late spring summer it is magnificent - you will be asked what it is every day. 

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