Can anyone recommend a tree that could be grown in a 40 cm pot.Not acers or
orange/lemon.To add height to a sunny deck area.
Thanks Keith

kenty wrote:
Can anyone recommend a tree that could be grown in a 40 cm pot.Not acers or
orange/lemon.To add height to a sunny deck area.

A standard Bay, or perhaps a minarette-style fruit tree?

James

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kenty wrote:
Can anyone recommend a tree that could be grown in a 40 cm pot.Not
acers or
orange/lemon.To add height to a sunny deck area.

A standard Bay, or perhaps a minarette-style fruit tree?

James

Bay is superb in pots. But wanting height. Thats a trickier one. Why not
a nice birch of some description. Height, pretty slender and if you get
a nice variety an awesome white bark that just begs to be touched.

"kenty" wrote in message
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Can anyone recommend a tree that could be grown in a 40 cm pot.Not acers or
orange/lemon.To add height to a sunny deck area.
Thanks Keith

Nothing I can think of in a 40cm pot will get big enough to give height. Why
not go for a wigwam with climbers instead?

Jenny

Christopher Norton wrote:
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from James Fidell contains these words:

kenty wrote:
Can anyone recommend a tree that could be grown in a 40 cm pot.Not
acers or
orange/lemon.To add height to a sunny deck area.

A standard Bay, or perhaps a minarette-style fruit tree?

James

Bay is superb in pots. But wanting height. Thats a trickier one. Why not
a nice birch of some description. Height, pretty slender and if you get
a nice variety an awesome white bark that just begs to be touched.

Bamboo?
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

How about any of these;

Aralia, Cordalyne & Yucca

http://static.flickr.com/1/129484644_feb9f7cc1b.jpg?v=0

"kenty" wrote in message
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Can anyone recommend a tree that could be grown in a 40 cm pot.Not acers
or orange/lemon.To add height to a sunny deck area.
Thanks Keith

You could make a living willow frame thing. Keep the pot wet and all will be
well. The rods are available at various heights .
http://www.englishwillowbaskets.co.u..._Cuttings.html

Sue wrote:
"Martin" wrote

After 20 years growing in a pot we have a sycamore that has reached a
vertigo inducing metre. A sycamore seedling brought back from UK at
the same time reached 4 or 5 metres quite quickly and had to be
removed from our tiny garden.

Each to their own and all that, but I think sycamores ought to be
eradicated from the face of the UK, not spread even further round the
world! After battling for years with zillions of seedlings from a vast
tree over the boundary I can't for the life of me think why anyone would
willingly plant one, pot or no pot! I curse the thing every time I go
near it but it seems immune to my black-hearted vibes, more's the
pity. ;-)

I've got loads of them First chance I get they're firewood, and I'll
replace them with blackthorn, hawthorn, beech, hazel and the like.

James

"kenty" wrote in message
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Can anyone recommend a tree that could be grown in a 40 cm pot.Not acers
or
orange/lemon.To add height to a sunny deck area.
Thanks Keith

How high is 'height'?

A Yucca will grow to at least 6', quite quickly if you feed it well.

HTH
Dave R