hello - just catching up on the gardening section in the paper. Lovely picture of trees in pots in Alan Titchmarsh's garden. Does anyone know what type of trees they are please? Here is the picture (Telegraph Gardening Section 20 June15). Many thanks.
"My Secret Garden" by Alan Titchmarsh and was published in 2012.
Not sure that helps but I'm sure the answer will be in there.
Edit: It's formally clipped yew and box, apparently.
I have a copy (a GW Advent Calender 'prize') from a couple of years ago.
On page 102 Alan writes about his "lollipop yews" planted in "... Italian Terrace Pots, 'Vaso Archi' 80cm in height and diameter with a Gothic arch pattern to their rim. They age beautifullyu, taking on a duisky patina to the terracotta, which is not as vivid an orange as its British counterpart. They have also withstood freezing temperatures in at least two severe winters..."
Hope that helps
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Posts
Not clear enough for me to see Tootles, but Hornbeam and Beech are often clipped like that and kept as a row of 'standards'.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yew, I reckon.
looks like yew to me
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have a copy (a GW Advent Calender 'prize') from a couple of years ago.
On page 102 Alan writes about his "lollipop yews" planted in "... Italian Terrace Pots, 'Vaso Archi' 80cm in height and diameter with a Gothic arch pattern to their rim. They age beautifullyu, taking on a duisky patina to the terracotta, which is not as vivid an orange as its British counterpart. They have also withstood freezing temperatures in at least two severe winters..."
Hope that helps
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow! That is brilliant. So helpful. Thank you pot loads.
'Pot' loads Tootles - very apt!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...