Nope! I reckon you should construct a raised bed. They don't like bad drainage, though they will tolerate clay (doesn't always mean bad drainage)....
So do I BM, in some of my clients gardens and surrounding hillsides. To double check I just looked through Hilliers and they thought 5-10m, then I...
Hello DAG. Sorbus aria 'Lutescens' is a large tree that thrives on calcareous soils. Certainly reaches 15-20m. It is very beautiful, especially...
Hi Frogesque, okay here's a couple more...Stewartia pseudocamellia, or Arbutus andrachne - the strawberry tree. Both like acidy soil, and are well...
Shame on you BM, some of us have neighbours!! I used garotta when I started, but lawn food, dried blood, or fish blood and bone, will do the job...
Bit late now but I have never had much luck with pineapple brooms. Lovely plant, wish it would grow, and it does, like stink, for a couple of...
Metasequoia glyptostroboides?
Wow! Answered my own question. Here's the winter show. Berries do drop and are a drag to rake up off (for example) this gravel drive. Otherwise a...
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How about a Beauty bush- Kolwkitzia amabilis with a Perle d'Azur clematis growing through it, or possibly for a treeish thing a Crataegus...
I was told by a Bonsai expert that if you prune Jap maples cut them somewhere around the middle of the internode and not too close to a bud. It...
In the SE. I have looked after quite a few of these things. My experience is they require ericaceous compost, and don't like hard water for...
Howzabout a strawberry tree? Arbutus unedo. Slowish growing, not too dense, attractive bark - but reputedly prefers acid conditions which could be...
Could be the late frosts aftr the ild winter(if you like in the SE gravitation zone). A few bottlebrushes that have survived well in some of my...
Think the plant you're after is Fuchsia magellanica. My mum calls them dancing ladies (after she's had a couple) and there's a reference to it in...
Ive pruned pieris japonica hybrids all through the summer although never hard, just tidying. They take very well to it, it keeps them bushy. In my...
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