Advice From Any Gardeners Out There (page 2)

Gill

A beautiful Christmas tree! Then you can put lights on it at the appropriate time of the year like we do. The rest of the year we just look at it and smile when any JW relatives comes round and admire it! Oh yes! You just wait till December and see if they admire it this year!!!

Sad emo

Clam - I bought some rowan as 'bare roots' (basically a twig with roots on lol! Worth considering as they are much cheaper than buying a young tree) to plant a native hedge with. In my garden, I'd say they grow about 4ft per year.

Clam

Gill they do look very nice in the winter but I'm staying away from evergreens. I like to see the tree change throughout the season.

Clam

Emo - yes the Rowan is going on my shortlist now. I like the fact that it has berries to attract the birds too.

Gill

Clam - They do change with the seasons!!! In summer they sprout the most beautiful green new shoots at the end of their branches. They grow the most fantastic pine cones and in winter they have red, yellow, red, green and white lights on them!!!!!! They are fantastic!!!!

Otherwise, go for a curly Hazel!!! Nakedly twisted with yellow dangly bits in winter. In spring they shoot fantastically bright green leaves and the ladybirds come to make hot and passionate love on them. Before you know it, there's lovely lush foliage with lady bird eggs all over them! Then in mid summer lady birds start hatching on the leaves.....light green and slowly sunning themselves turning red. Then, the hazels start to show themselves in big green bunches and fall ready to eat in autumn.....if you can get to them before the bloody squirrels do!!! Then the brown and yellow leaves fall and you get the nakedly twisted branches with the yellow dangly bits again........That exciting enough for you??

Clam

Gill you've painted a picture so evocative that I'll have trouble resisting. There are some bad ass squirrels in my garden though. . .

Gill

Clam - Now that is what you call a 'bad ass' squirrel!!!

restrangled

Clam, I don't know what Zone you are in but a beautiful fast growing tree is the Crimson King Maple. The leaves are purple all summer, and then turn fire red in the fall.

My parents planted two of them at their old home in their front yard and 15 years later are something to see! The soil conditions are exactly like yours. They were planted in Chicago.

Here is an example: http://www.galbraithsinc.com/view_plant.asp?plant_id=150

Good Luck.

r.

AK - Jeff

Nice seasonal change it looks like in the Rowan. Is this tree available in the US anyone know? I never heard of it. IF not, Clam, I will have to come over the pond and see yours in few years, if that is what you decide.

Jeff

golf2

You also have Crimson King Maple, various types of Ash. Visit a 'tree farm' they will provide many suggestions.

Golf

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