[Misc] NSC - Plant a Tree!

[Weststander]

Perfect place to post this Acer from my garden a couple of days ago (afraid my photography is not of the level normally displayed on NSC)

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Just counted Jack and I have 11 trees in the garden at the moment so 1 more won't be any great effort

*edit* Just seen, extra points for plants in the foreground

Part of a huge garden, must be in the affluent Timmy constituency.

 

[Weststander]

Would be lovely to knock down the Toys r Us building in Hove and plant a Goldstone Forrest in its place.

The Golf Club at Hollinbury closes next March, would be amazing if they reforested that rather than let property developers do there worst with it.

Anything south of the A27 (not in the SDNP) will eventually be housing. It was inevitable once the Brighton Bypass got permission, although denied at the time.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Apropos of nothing much at all, the very excellent Valley Gardens project seems to include a large number of new tree planting. Any scope for sponsoring one or more, anyone know?

 

[Jack Straw]

Apropos of nothing much at all, the very excellent Valley Gardens project seems to include a large number of new tree planting. Any scope for sponsoring one or more, anyone know?

Jevs's Manager went to Holland to choose some of the trees for the Valley Gardens Scheme. I'm sure Jevs will read this thread and perhaps find out. I'll ask him myself anyway when I pop in for my next cup of coffee at the Rockery with him.

 

[Jack Straw]

I’m trying not to use glasses..best i give up on that idea.


This is what I have planted most of this year

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Is it a Philadelphus? It's a fine specimen regardless, and quite old. If it is, I bet the smell of the flowers is wonderful.

 

[Jack Straw]

I have several golden rain tree seedlings in pots. I'd quite like to plant them out somewhere in the countryside. I plan to wait till spring (the roots will thicken over winter). We have given away anoter ten to neighbours so Faversham might have something special for Open Gardens in a few years.

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Beautiful! I planted one in the Royal Pavilion Gardens in 1984. It's now absolutely huge and the star of the show in that part of the gardens.
Being native to Eastern Asia and seeding freely, it wouldn't be a good idea to unleash these in to the countryside, even though they are stunning and I am a fan of Guerrilla Gardening.
I would continue to give them to people who can plant them in their private (biggish) gardens, or donate them to a charity who could perhaps sell them at a fete?
I'll look for them when I'm in the Faversham area!
Any NSCers in the locality who would want one?!!

 

[LamieRobertson]

Is it a Philadelphus? It's a fine specimen regardless, and quite old. If it is, I bet the smell of the flowers is wonderful.

Hoheria Sexstylosa Snow White evergreen and a vigorous grower...I’ve used some to form a ‘hedge’ for one customer

 

[Nitram]

Great idea but can people be aware of the allergy problems from silver birch trees for hay fever sufferers.

 

[pwlr1966]

Having 320 hedgerow plants delivered next week all free from the woodland trust, this will create a natural boundary fence to my place of work, encouraging wild life as a bonus

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Beautiful! I planted one in the Royal Pavilion Gardens in 1984. It's now absolutely huge and the star of the show in that part of the gardens.
Being native to Eastern Asia and seeding freely, it wouldn't be a good idea to unleash these in to the countryside, even though they are stunning and I am a fan of Guerrilla Gardening.
I would continue to give them to people who can plant them in their private (biggish) gardens, or donate them to a charity who could perhaps sell them at a fete?
I'll look for them when I'm in the Faversham area!
Any NSCers in the locality who would want one?!!

Wow. Superb work at the Pavillion!

I am more than happy to give away my four remaining seedlings in pots to anyone passing through Faversham. Anyone can PM me when they are about to be in the vicinity

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Beautiful! I planted one in the Royal Pavilion Gardens in 1984. It's now absolutely huge and the star of the show in that part of the gardens.
Being native to Eastern Asia and seeding freely, it wouldn't be a good idea to unleash these in to the countryside, even though they are stunning and I am a fan of Guerrilla Gardening.
I would continue to give them to people who can plant them in their private (biggish) gardens, or donate them to a charity who could perhaps sell them at a fete?
I'll look for them when I'm in the Faversham area!
Any NSCers in the locality who would want one?!!

ps - in the meantime should we bring the seedlings inside when it gets cold or will they be OK on the patio? I could look this up on Wiki, but a lot of the guff online is about the relative, the laburnum

 

[Jack Straw]

ps - in the meantime should we bring the seedlings inside when it gets cold or will they be OK on the patio? I could look this up on Wiki, but a lot of the guff online is about the relative, the laburnum

The reason why you keep finding stuff about Laburnums is because both they and Koelreuteria paniculata (which you have), share the same common name - Golden Rain Tree. This is exactly why gardeners us the latin names.
They are pretty hardy. They wouldn't hurt in a greenhouse, otherwise standing against a south-facing wall should suffice. Just a matter of preventing the soil from becoming completely frozen, especially if they are in small pots which I assume they are? I wouldn't water them any more this year.

 

[Jack Straw]

Hoheria Sexstylosa Snow White evergreen and a vigorous grower...I’ve used some to form a ‘hedge’ for one customer

Thank you. That's a brand new one to me. Looks really nice and I can see why you use it.

 

[Jack Straw]

Having 320 hedgerow plants delivered next week all free from the woodland trust, this will create a natural boundary fence to my place of work, encouraging wild life as a bonus

Wonderful. The Woodland Trust used to send them out in 400's. Who's had the other 80 away?! Please post photos on this thread after they've been planted. You must have a watering rota for the first couple of years from the beginning of April to the end of September once a week whether it's been dry or not, or it could be a waste of time.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The reason why you keep finding stuff about Laburnums is because both they and Koelreuteria paniculata (which you have), share the same common name - Golden Rain Tree. This is exactly why gardeners us the latin names.
They are pretty hardy. They wouldn't hurt in a greenhouse, otherwise standing against a south-facing wall should suffice. Just a matter of preventing the soil from becoming completely frozen, especially if they are in small pots which I assume they are? I wouldn't water them any more this year.

Thanks for the tips

Solem lucere opus iubeo

 

[WATFORD zero]

Is it a Philadelphus? It's a fine specimen regardless, and quite old. If it is, I bet the smell of the flowers is wonderful.

I've got a big Philadelphus (size is everything ) and the flowers do smell beautiful, but have only discovered recently that you have to leave it two years for it to flower.

I've had it in the garden for nearly twenty years, but it was getting ridiculously big, so I've 'trimmed' it the last couple of years (with a chainsaw) and got no flowers

It takes a long time to really learn this gardening lark doesn't it.

 

[studio150]

Root trespass I'm out

 

[Jack Straw]

I've got a big Philadelphus (size is everything ) and the flowers do smell beautiful, but have only discovered recently that you have to leave it two years for it to flower.

I've had it in the garden for nearly twenty years, but it was getting ridiculously big, so I've 'trimmed' it the last couple of years (with a chainsaw) and got no flowers

It takes a long time to really learn this gardening lark doesn't it.

Philadelphus flower on stems that have grown the previous season. After they've flowered, cut hard back all branches covered in dead flowers, usually back to a nice non-flowering shoot, and that's it really. You will notice that there are lots of nice new branches which haven't flowered. They're the ones that flower the following year. If you've given your bush a number 1 all over (Ooh Matron), with a chain saw, it would be two years before it flowered as you would have cut off the potential flowering shoots.

 

[Jack Straw]

Root trespass I'm out

You won't get this problem with the right tree in the right place.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Wonderful. The Woodland Trust used to send them out in 400's. Who's had the other 80 away?! Please post photos on this thread after they've been planted. Y have a watering rota for the first couple of years from the beginning of April to the end of September once a week whether it's been dry or not, or it could be a waste of time.

I have ended up putting things like this in writing partly to protect myself ...clients sometimes get the idea that Mother Nature doesn’t need a helping hand