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28-06-2006, 08:13 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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Janet Tweedy wrote:
Idea please? NOT the horrid bright yellow-leaved gledista, it must look
like a tree, i.e. be green.

what about Field Maple (Acer campestre). I've got one, on heavy clay.
OK, it's common as muck but it grows nearly a metre a year if the soil
is wet enough and looks fantastic when the leaves change colour. Then
it drops millions of the damn things, good if you like collecting for
leaf mould.

That's an idea, and this will be a silly question but does it move with
the wind? Hollies don't but birches and oaks and so on do have some
movement to them when the wind blows which I always like in the garden,
a still, densely leaved tree might be a bit oppressive?

Janet

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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
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