Excellent example above loxley, and I like your logic.
Can anyone put my mind at ease with the top shoot being cut off - can I expect it to grow again, and if so will it make the tree even kinkier in shape...?
Yeah. Your trees will be fine. It will choose a new leader shoot and it will grow upwards. We had a similar issue with a birch bought online. It was cut to fit it in a box. You wouldn't know now. Looks like a perfect tree. Hope your trees are settling in well.
Yeah. Your trees will be fine. It will choose a new leader shoot and it will grow upwards. We had a similar issue with a birch bought online. It was cut to fit it in a box. You wouldn't know now. Looks like a perfect tree. Hope your trees are settling in well.
Thank you, very reassuring Meerkat. Believe it or not I've now got 4 Spider Alleys - one in the front garden that has replaced a prunus that would have eventually grown too wide (and blocked our 20 mile view). I started off with one example in the back garden, and then planted around it with another two, with the spacing about 4 feet apart. I've certainly taken an expensive gamble, given the price difference with a 'normal silver birch', and I'm counting on the effect resembling what I've seen in the garden centre - though I've got a few years to wait to see what the eventual effect will look like.
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Hope your trees are settling in well.
Had to look that up Suze - I like it and it should handle my climate well given its place of origin.
Thank you, very reassuring Meerkat. Believe it or not I've now got 4 Spider Alleys - one in the front garden that has replaced a prunus that would have eventually grown too wide (and blocked our 20 mile view). I started off with one example in the back garden, and then planted around it with another two, with the spacing about 4 feet apart. I've certainly taken an expensive gamble, given the price difference with a 'normal silver birch', and I'm counting on the effect resembling what I've seen in the garden centre - though I've got a few years to wait to see what the eventual effect will look like.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...