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On 5/7/08 11:56, in article ,
"Blairadamwitch" wrote:
Looking for advice on a tree to plant in my small front garden.
Don't want anything too expensive and would prefer an evergreen but
I'm flexible. My soil is clay builders junk/rubble.
Anybody have any ideas?
Holly? A variegated one would be pretty. Eucalyptus. Some types can be
kept small and go on producing their pretty juvenile foliage. Hoheria
sexstylosa is lovely and has scented white flowers in late summer but it
does seed itself around, or so we find. That goes to about 8m. Myrtus
communis - myrtle. There's a variegated form of that which is pretty, too.
A lot depends on where you live, though. Climate affects most things.
Hmmm. I've got a very pretty tree in the back garden: varigated ivy.
When I moved into the house, I thought the ivy was growing up a dead
tree, but on closer inspection the 'bark' turned out to be the sinuous
growth of ivy stems, and the foundation was one of three old irrigation
pipes set upright in the ground.
The top had formed a mushroom shape, and needs trimming from time to time.
If you really want to drive your neighbours mad with envy, grow a
wisteria with varigated ivy up a 'trunk' (plastic land-drain is ideal:
it's stronger and of a greater diameter than domestic drainpipe, and an
ochre or terra cotta colour.) and when the wisteria flowers, the effect
would be - Hell! I'm going to go and buy a wisteria innit!
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Rusty
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