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Re-thinking or correcting first year enthusiasm mistakes

Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
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The first year cherry tree on dwarf stock is growing really well, but I think I've planted it too near the fence. On the other side of the fence is the neighbour's narrow pathway. The other side of their path is a windowless brick wall of their extension (this does have guttering over the path).

I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to complain if the cherry over grows into their space as their sycamore is way taller than their and our house, and it's over-reaching over our fence into our garden by almost half. I don't mind as I really like the tree.

My questions are; could I prune the cherry to be an espalier along the fence, if I did that would I have to move the first year Super Fairy rose, or do you think the rose might like grow through the cherry branches?

Or should I move the tree, after it's dropped it leaves, a few feet forward and let it grow in a natural shape?

Decisions, decisions  ;)  


Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's very close to the fence, whatever you decide to do
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    You could fan train it against the fence as it is.  Easier to net to keep the birds off the cherries.
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Not having room for an apple by the fence in my garden, I dug a hole in the lawn, edged it with everite (?) metal edging and planted it in that.  That way the tree has room to breathe.  Just as well because the fence blew over in the gales we had earlier in the year.  I'm sure if you decided to do the same you would be able to move your cherry in the autumn.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    I would move it just because if your neighbours sell, the new neighbours might be as virulently anti-tree/bush as my left-hand neighbour, cut down their sycamore and then take an axe to your overhanging cherry (and then some). 
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