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Janet · 08-04-2013, 09:30 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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On 08/04/2013 20:00, rbel wrote:
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0100, rbel wrote:

Many thanks for all the advice to date.

The tree will need to be kept pruned back to within the three metre
square boundary, hence the requirement for something quite compact.
The prevailing winds here are from the S.W. and there are some quite
tall shrubs on that side of the square which should help protect the
young tree.

As it has been mentioned that this Arbutus is slow growing we will
need to hunt around for a reasonable size one to make the sought after
impact - at the moment the two largest local garden centres don't have
anything over a metre tall and Sacha does not list them.

Crinodendron hookerianum certainly looks like a good alternative, I
will see what is available.

Having had a look online at the Crinodendron it is definitely in the
running. One question both the Arbutus and the Crinodendron appear as
though they are slow growing, is one significantly slower than the
other?

Don't know about Arbutus, but Crinodendron isn't that slow. It is
fairly slow as a small plant, but get's going once it's more than a
metre high.

I haven't grown arbutus, but agree with Jeff, crinodendron is no
slouch. Mine is 6 ft high atm , its stems put on 15 to 18 inches of
growth last year.

Janet