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Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: grumpsgarden on March 01, 2012, 08:18:34 pm

Title: small tree /bush for large pot out door
Post by: grumpsgarden on March 01, 2012, 08:18:34 pm

hi thought i would ask on here for my brother he wants to now of a tree or bushes that will withstand winds for a pot outdoors its a memoral plant for there dog the one they had died with the wind that the plant that died from the wind
thank you :thumbsup:

Title: Re: small tree /bush for large pot out door
Post by: Hermit on March 01, 2012, 08:43:52 pm

Southernwood withstands Shetland winds! It is a very fragrant shrub that you treat like a fuschia. You prune like a fuschia and just shove the cuttings in soil to grow  more plants easily. Plus you can use the leaves in cakes etc. It does not have fllowers but is a  very attractice feathery shrub which gives off the most beautiful scent when brushed against.

Title: Re: small tree /bush for large pot out door
Post by: Brucklay on March 01, 2012, 08:48:09 pm

I have a weeping willow in a pot that looks lovely in the summer but a little bare in the winter but is happy in a large pot and moved from Perthshire to Aberdeenshire and is still alive after 5 years - I keep it just next to an area of very tall conifers - need watering if it's very dry - probably about 3-4 times in the summer.

Title: Re: small tree /bush for large pot out door
Post by: grumpsgarden on March 01, 2012, 09:09:54 pm

thank you ive past both of them on to him