On 22/10/05 13:08, in article
, "La puce"
wrote:


keith ;-) wrote:
It should be o.k as it hasn't been
sat in cold/wet compost through winter yet,so you may have just saved it in
time!

Keith, Sacha, my acer has now grown out of its pot, in one year. The
tree is perhaps 8 years old. Still in its pot, pot on the earth, it has
anchored itself so strongly through the bottom hole, that I cannot move
the pot anymore. It looks happy, last year the leaves were not so red,
but this year it gave us a magnificient display and it looks nice in
its pot. Now, if you were me, what would you do? I could cut the pot in
two (huge plastic one) and trench around to lower it in, but I must go
underneath too. The task is huge I think.

I keep turning a blind eye to it. But now it looks like I'll lose it
sooner than I should if I don't do something about it.


Is there any reason to think you're going to lose it? We sometimes get
older shrubs or trees growing through their pots and usually they just stay
put quite happily. Some grow right through the Mypex and into the earth
beneath the glasshouses!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)