On 26/6/04 0:15, in article ,
"Dermuid" wrote:

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The flowering cherry sounds good, I must look it up, are they easy to get?
will garden centres stock them, I will need them to be about 10 ft tall to
start off with.
Are there any good tree suppliers who can deliver that you would care to
recommend.


Flowering cherries are lovely but they flower and are over very quickly, so
if you can, try to find trees that will 'stagger' the flowering period for
you. Hoheria are good for late summer, for example and are graceful, though
not bone hardy.
A Cotinus is classified as a shrub and while bushy, it grows to 20'.
Some fruit trees would give you both blossom and fruit, to everyone's
advantage, Hamamelis (witch hazel) has fragrant flowers, Garrya elliptica
has wonderful catkins in winter, Azara has scented yellow flowers in spring,
Clerodendrum trichotomum has fragrant white flowers in late summer (tends to
seed and sucker, though) - all are shrubs, strictly speaking (apart from the
apple) but grow to the height you want eventually. Even small trees tend to
go over 20 ft when fully grown, so if height is that important, you might be
better going for bigger shrubs. Eucalyptus are evergreen, have lovely
varieties of leaf shaped and can be kept at the height you want.
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Sacha
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