Thank you very much guys. I noticed the Deutzia when I went to Dunham Massey. It's right on the entrance to the gardens. At first it looks like a common shrub but once you get near it you realise the beauty of the thousands of the little flowers.
The Katsura tree is another stunner but from what I could see it grows quite big. Hence why I was asking about the prunning style. I assume that pollarding applies to all the trees? If that is the case it would allow me to get a Katsura in my garden.
No pollarding is only used a a few trees. e.g. In London they pollard the London Planes. Any sort of pruning would ruin the shape of Cercidiphyllum japonica. They are gorgeous trees but do grow BIG!
Ah right. A shame. It's such a beautiful tree but its mature shade would just ruin the rest of the garden. Saying that it does tolerate heavy prunning so I might get one and prune it heavily every 3-4 years to keep it at bay.
I think you'll ruin its shape and the form of this tree is one of its main attractions, along with the foliage and the caramel smell in autumn. Better to work out exactly what it is you like about it and find something smaller that will come close.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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1. Red penstemon and white tall campanula (probably Campanula persicifolia)
2. Exochorda macrantha
3. Weigela florida sp.
4. Cercidiphyllum japonicum (Katsura tree)
5, 6. Spur pruning.
Last two - pollarding.
I would describe the pruning as Pollarding.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pollarding+trees&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0zPa2i8HbAhVCNMAKHb7SBxAQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=943
Spur pruning is for vines and fruit trees where the aim is to encourage fruit.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
The Katsura tree is another stunner but from what I could see it grows quite big. Hence why I was asking about the prunning style. I assume that pollarding applies to all the trees? If that is the case it would allow me to get a Katsura in my garden.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
e.g. In London they pollard the London Planes.
Any sort of pruning would ruin the shape of Cercidiphyllum japonica.
They are gorgeous trees but do grow BIG!
https://www.google.com/search?q=cercidiphyllum+japonicum+tree&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo2ZbegsLbAhVGPsAKHctOBvQQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=943
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw