Will a 'monkey puzzle' tree be suitable for my garden??
Hippyness
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I was just wondering if any members have a 'monkey puzzle' tree in their garden and if so if anyone could help! My 2 acre woodland garden (I recently moved in and it needs a lot of tlc!) has had a lot of trees cut down over the years and I would like to put some back in. I would love one of these trees as my gran had one and I remembered it from being a child. I was wondering if my garden would be suitable - space is not a problem but quite large areas of the garden suffer from a lot of surface water during bad weather as it has a very high water table so I need to be careful with what I plant. Another problem I have is that I have a lot of woodpeckers in the area that are VERY active - as my pride and joy willow tree will testify as it now looks like swiss cheese! - will they harm a monkey puzzle tree?? Any ideas? many thanks 
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Hi Hippyness
Monkey Puzzles really do not do well in wet areas - in fact 'getting their feet wet' in the winter will usually kill them off. Sorry.
As for woodpeckers - they usually only drum on trees that are dead/dying/rotting.
Hope that's helpful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks Dove, not the answer I wanted but I did suspect that it may be too wet - best to avoid a costly mistake now!!