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Ideas please for storm damage replacement
Lily Pilly
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After this huge tree came down and we got over the shock we see the potential for new planting. But what? We need to screen from the school with something tough as this is the prevailing weather, hence the shape of the tree next to our loss. Maybe it needs to go too? do we replant with several trees.?We are prepared to invest in this and buy semi mature trees but desperately need expert advice
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A A Milne
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I always had a thing for laburnums, what about mountain ash - flowring cherry -hawthorn - hornbeam
I'd go for a horse chestnut, deep rooted and very stable in high winds.
I was thinking hawthorn too - good at standing up to wind and tempest - really thickly foliaged from early on, and able to blot out the school during the summer and even in the winter the dense twiggy nature of it's growth will obscure it pretty well. Coupled with that, gorgeous blossom in the spring, wonderful haws in the autumn/winter for the blackbirds, thrushes and redwings - a really good wildlife tree and they grow into such gorgeous shapes - a little group of three native hawthorns would look lovely
And tall enough but not too tall so if they should ever blow over in a hurricane they shouldn't reach the house!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Horse chestnuts have some sort of disease or pest which has spread from eastern Europe and makes them look dreadful with brown spotty, dried up looking leaves for most of the summer.
I would suggest hawthorn too as it is fast growing and very wildlife friendly and maybe some hazel which could be coppiced or maybe two or three different montain ash so you can have different coloured berries which come in red pink and white according to variety.