I once planted a Rambling Rector on the boundary of an inner city terrace garden which had a back alleyway frequented by ne'er do wells.
It quickly provided us with the security we needed - we moved some 5 years later - must go back sometime and see how far it's spread - no one else in the neighbourhood ever went into their gardens so it could have rambled a very long way by now
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
free delivery, but also just seen different variety for 32.99 with 4.95 delivery. same company.This one in a 9Litre pot, this one called smoke gum the smaller one called sweet gum.
Primrose have the liquidambar in 5litre pots, 1.5 - 1.8m tall, £29.99, does that sound reasonable?
I would be cautious with Primrose. I have just had a week long battle with them over 9cm potted plants put into 3lt pots weeks before sending out. I have got a refund (I say that, it hasn't appeared in my account yet) but it was a lot of hassle and I have 9cm potted plants not the 3 ltr ones I was after.
Primrose are too big which means you're too small.
I ordered the same species, different variety from someone else also in 3 ltr pot, those plants were 5 times bigger and the same price. Sorry, you asked who else? Larch Cottage The plants I got from them were great!
Thanks Jim, I'd seen the thread about that and was going to look back for it. Will look for other suppliers too. I'll not be ready for a while either as need to get the old tree removed first, so another decision would be if to buy now and plant when ready or even next autumn if takes too long this year, or to just buy when the ground is ready, can trees stay in the pot as delivered for a year? I guess I should wait.
I'm impatient , but If you buy now and repot the plants as long as you look after them until you're ready they'll be bigger plants for your money when you are ready. I grow as much as I can from cuttings or seed, you'll be amazed how much a young tree will grow in a year. As soon as they've put down some roots they can put on six feet in a year depending on the species. Bare root is the cheapest way to go. It all depends what you want. The standard advice is to buy small and grow it on in situ but to be honest that hasn't panned out for me yet. As an experiment I bought three Birch. 1 BR, 1 root ball, and one pot grown, smallest to tallest in that order. The pot grown is still bigger than the other two. They've all put on six feet of growth or so at least but all in proportion. Of course other varieties won't work the same. Beech are not good trees to buy too big. I bought the silver birch to do a similar job as you. You can get a standard 8/10 for about £30 depending on the species and supplier and you'll get an instant screening effect. I wouldn't go Ashridge Trees though. My Silver Birch from them were terrible. While the ones from Ornamental Tree Nurseries were fantastic, though more expensive. But I'd buy from them again. I'll get some photos for you.
Oh jim, you've got me chuckling now as I always wanted a silver birch tree. In fact only this year I went for a golden ash but its not put on that much growth since spring. I've emailed a few companies for actual height they supply. But may just plan a trip to local GC and go for whatever they have in stock at the right time as I seem to love everything! Hmmm as for 'looking after' for a year and 'repotting' sounds a bit scary but im not discounting it either.
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Primrose have the liquidambar in 5litre pots, 1.5 - 1.8m tall, £29.99, does that sound reasonable?
Seems a good price Mrs G have seen at nearly £ 40 for the same size.
I once planted a Rambling Rector on the boundary of an inner city terrace garden which had a back alleyway frequented by ne'er do wells.
It quickly provided us with the security we needed - we moved some 5 years later - must go back sometime and see how far it's spread - no one else in the neighbourhood ever went into their gardens so it could have rambled a very long way by now
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Reasonable, esp if it includes postage?
free delivery, but also just seen different variety for 32.99 with 4.95 delivery. same company.This one in a 9Litre pot, this one called smoke gum the smaller one called sweet gum.
I would be cautious with Primrose. I have just had a week long battle with them over 9cm potted plants put into 3lt pots weeks before sending out. I have got a refund (I say that, it hasn't appeared in my account yet) but it was a lot of hassle and I have 9cm potted plants not the 3 ltr ones I was after.
Primrose are too big which means you're too small.
I ordered the same species, different variety from someone else also in 3 ltr pot, those plants were 5 times bigger and the same price. Sorry, you asked who else?
Larch Cottage The plants I got from them were great!
Thanks Jim, I'd seen the thread about that and was going to look back for it. Will look for other suppliers too. I'll not be ready for a while either as need to get the old tree removed first, so another decision would be if to buy now and plant when ready or even next autumn if takes too long this year, or to just buy when the ground is ready, can trees stay in the pot as delivered for a year? I guess I should wait.
I'm impatient ,
but If you buy now and repot the plants as long as you look after them until you're ready they'll be bigger plants for your money when you are ready. I grow as much as I can from cuttings or seed, you'll be amazed how much a young tree will grow in a year. As soon as they've put down some roots they can put on six feet in a year depending on the species. Bare root is the cheapest way to go. It all depends what you want. The standard advice is to buy small and grow it on in situ but to be honest that hasn't panned out for me yet. As an experiment I bought three Birch. 1 BR, 1 root ball, and one pot grown, smallest to tallest in that order. The pot grown is still bigger than the other two. They've all put on six feet of growth or so at least but all in proportion. Of course other varieties won't work the same. Beech are not good trees to buy too big. I bought the silver birch to do a similar job as you. You can get a standard 8/10 for about £30 depending on the species and supplier and you'll get an instant screening effect. I wouldn't go Ashridge Trees though. My Silver Birch from them were terrible. While the ones from Ornamental Tree Nurseries were fantastic, though more expensive. But I'd buy from them again. I'll get some photos for you.