On 05/01/2015 16:24, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Spider" wrote ...

Bob Hobden wrote:
"Pam Moore" wrote

My garden is even smaller. I have 2 trees, one a columnar yew from
which I periodically cut the tallest trunk. I also have a red acer
palmatum which is much admired but now needing the attention of an
expert to take it back a bit.
Both have been in for 25 years and I've no regrets.
I also have a beech, 2 Scots pines, a ginkgo, 2 larches, a mulberry, a
cedar and a few other trees but those are all bonsai! The only way I
can grow an arboretum!!!
I remember on GQT Bunny Guinness once said "Every garden should have 2
trees with a rope slide between" (or words to that effect) and I have
taken all her advice since with a few pinches of salt!

That reminds me of a situation a friend found himself in, it was a posh
gardening black tie dinner and he was sat next to some chap who
proceeded to tell everyone he had a small arboretum at home, to which my
friend said "Oh you keep Bonsai then".

Oooouuch!! You don't say that to a serious tree man! I wonder if it
was Michael Hesseltine, the tree man, that is?

I think my friend was being a bit sarcastic about a "small" arboretum,
is there such a thing?



Indeed there is. I may very well have one :~).
--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay