"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2012-07-22 17:14:59 +0100, "Charlie Pridham"
said:


"Harry Davis" wrote in message
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What trees or even largish bushes might I be able to grow in a treeless
windswept garden a mile from the Atlantic coast on the Isle of Lewis in
NW
Scotland?

There's maybe 30cm of topsoil on top of peat, and the surrounding
terrain
is all moorland with no trees, mostly heather, and the occasional
gorsebush.

Thanks!

Harry
Monteray Pines have a good reputation for coping in such places

But aren't they rather shallow-rooted and inclined to come down in gales?!
One blew down in the chuchyard next to us and three others had to be cut
down for safety. They're fine for several years but then there seems to
come a point...
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/
At Eagles Nest they planted them at a slant with props under! they also used
gorse as nursery shelter and also Camellias (surprisingly wind and salt
tolerant)

Experience in the largely destroyed shelter belts in 87 and 89 was Magnolia
is the least likely to blow over


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Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk