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Just ordered two trees online (buy one get one free!) a Rowan and a Whitebeam! My OH was wanting a rowan, and as the berries are good for birds who am I to complain! The whitebeam we picked as out free tree, and again it is good for the birds so double bonus! We'll be keeping them in containers though as they grow a bit too big for our garden and it means if we ever move the trees can come too! Now I need to do more digging in the garden to make a hole big enough for the pots (putting the pots in the ground), but first need the conifer that one of them is replacing removed (the conifer was swamped in ivy a few years ago and has never really recovered)! Only just finished digging the rest yesterday, now I have more to do! Does this gardening lark ever end???
Still, I can't wait for my new trees to arrive!
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Sounds like a good deal. Well done you for braving the cold and being in the garden in this weather. It is so cold here right now.
Hope they thrive and attract lots of birds to you garden
Sarah
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It's not actually too bad up here, certainly haven't needed my jacket on for working in the garden! lol It's hard work!
Hi Kat TAI where did you get the trees
Rosie - I ordered the trees from mailordertrees.co.uk :-)
Nessthehat - good to hear you haven't had any problems with witches lol
The ivy kind of took over the garden quite badly and killed a number of other plants, landlady instructed us to have it removed because it was out of hand big time - it was more like a sideways growing tree than a climber! So I removed the ivy and quite surprisingly I didn't find a single old nest in it! I was pretty surprised at that as the ivy was a good metre or so deep in places, but there was nothing in it. On the plus side, a hedge it had covered produces lots of berries now and the birds love those! We do have some bits of ivy growing in the garden, but in all honesty I wouldn't let any of them get to that extent again lol We only have a small garden as it is lol
Oh new trees how exciting. Love rowans + I have no witches - used to be planted near the doors of churches in Scotland for the witch problem!! ;o)
I've planted a few bits of ivy into the hawthorn hedge but will keep an eye on the growth thing. I'm finding the honeysuckle far more successful, well until I try + cut the hedge that is. Was doing this at the weekend + the nos of times I got frustrated as the piece that id chopped was all tangled up + couldn't be taken out without lots of extra chopping + hand scratching!!
Love the choice of trees. You will enjoy them we need before + after pics posted!!
'In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks' John Muir.
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Hi Kat
They sound like good value. I have been seriously considering a rowan tree because of the berries, but they can grow quite large.
I don't envy you digging out the conifer though!
I sometimes don't pick the perfect place for a tree or a shrub at the first time of planting, and I have asked my OH to move things around so much in my garden, he says I need them all on casters.
Best wishes Chris
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Osprey - don't worry I'll provide photies :-)
Woospecker - The size thinng is why we're growing them in pots lol that way they can't get too big for our garden! I'm goiung out to get the pots today. :-)