small tree for all round cover?
Hope someone can help. Just moved to the Scottish borders, got an amazing garden apart from one small area.
We have a circle of ground about 7ft across. The tree that is in it is coming out (died).
I want to plant something that will give as much colour as possible through out the year.
It will be in eye view from our new extension all the time.
We are the sheltered part of the Borders near to Jedburgh but will have to take into account high possibility of snow and longer winters.
Can anyone advise me please?
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Do you know which tree you have just removed?
Do you happen to know why it died?
Without knowing that I would be very wary about replanting in the same space...just incase you have Ash die back or Phyophora.
Do you mean all round "colour"? crab apple, larger cornus (lovelly coloured stems) silver or paper birch, des, but pretty bark. Evergreen eleagnus, they can cope with the biting wind here, sea air, look good all year, tiny white but gorgeous scented flowers in winter.
Christopher Lloyd suggests Acer palmatum 'Sango Kaku' for the maximum possible year round colour. "The leaves emerge pinkish-green, turning bright green in summer and golden yellow with hints of red in autumn". And then you have the winter branches which are red-pink like a dogwood. It likes an acid soil, but probably requires a reasonably sheltered spot.
What was from the grave.! Dont know if it would survive in bonny Scotland, they are prone to weather damage, I am in SE England, and lost one to windburn last year, they need a sheltered, semi shaded spot, so you are correct about that WillDB
In fact we killed it. It was a small green weeping kind of tree that had grown really ugly. Did nothing in Autumn apart from shed its leafs. No colour at all.
Really looking for something that can be trimmed to about 6/7 feet in height with a span of about 9/10 feet. It will be in the middle of the lawn.
Glad that there was no problem with diseased in your old tree.
That is not easy to get a low growing, but wide spreading tree...with good colour.
You maybe should look at shrubs.
How about Viburnum plicatum tomentosum Mariesii..
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Viburnum+plicatum+f.+tomentosum+%27Mariesii&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6m7yv3sDUAhUMLMAKHXtfBGcQ_AUICygC&biw=1536&bih=759.
Or Viburnum plicatum Pink Beauty.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=viburnum+plicatum+pink+beauty&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNjNji3sDUAhVqAsAKHduKDxMQ_AUICigB&biw=1536&bih=759
Or Cornus controversa variegata.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Cornus+controversa+%27Variegata%27&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRla--38DUAhUHJsAKHSd-AAMQ_AUICigB&biw=1536&bih=759
Or Sorbus sargentiana...a tree.... will gow taller than 7ft ...but very slow...flowers, berries and stunning autumn colour.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sorbus+sargentiana&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJ2sn-38DUAhWpKMAKHVfMB6wQ_AUICigB&biw=1536&bih=759#tbm=isch&q=sorbus+sargentiana+tree
May I suggest you look at all the local gardens and parks to see what grows happily in your area.
Help please.
Posted 4 links...only 2 seem to work.
Normally they work OK.