I want to plant 20 or so flowering cherrys all the same varietie next to the road in a hedge. My plan was to buy seeds and grow them from scratch. Will the seeds I buy definitely be the varietie I want or do they cross polinate like apples? What varietie would you choose I was thinking prunus chocolate ice. I'd like them to grow very large eventually. I can't find any detailed info on the net or a book about doing this. Thanks for reading.
Planting full size cherry trees in a new hedgerow.
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Having some rows of trees myself, I would suggest a fast growing variety whereby the unfortunately probable replacement tree would not take too long to fill in a gap in the line.
Only cuttings will look alike. There is one problem with planting a formal row of anything: sooner or later, one or two will drop dead, leaving you a row that looks like a Gordy Howe hockey smile. Trees are trained at the factory to not die if they are on either end of the line, just if they are kind of central in even-numbered row. Even if they come true to type, there is always some variation on the theme. If you plant seeds they will vary, just like your children. Some will look like brothers, some like sisters, but one or two will look like the postman.
It's all new also not in a hurry so I'm planting them on there own first.
I like the look of the professionally made Japanese cherry tree gardens they all flower at once. I appreciate that they put a huge amount of work into getting that effect. Most of the trees I see in garden centres are intended to be dwarfs for small gardens. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I like the look of the professionally made Japanese cherry tree gardens they all flower at once. I appreciate that they put a huge amount of work into getting that effect. Most of the trees I see in garden centres are intended to be dwarfs for small gardens. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Most Cherries are medium to small trees even if not grafted to smaller stock. Kwanzan is a biggie ~50 feet wide and doubled flowers. So, you like Kwanzans...
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One upon a time, long, long ago I ran across a tree line that I speculate had been associated with a defunct nursery. There were no buildings for several lots in a row. It was a very mature string of trees, and I came upon it in mid-spring just as all the trees had leafed out.
There was a Eastern White Pine, Purple Plum, Sunburst Honey Locust, Green Japanese Maple, Colorado Blue Spruce, Bloodgood, Ginkgo, Copper Beech and a few others I can't remember, all mature, and all in a tight line indented into each other, and arranged tall, short, tall, short. The colors adjacent to each other for maximum contrast. Looking at it, I came to appreciate that someone had to have a really good idea of exactly what he was doing in placing that particular mix of trees in that particular mix of positions. As they say, "A man plants a flower for himself, and tree for posterity..."
There was a Eastern White Pine, Purple Plum, Sunburst Honey Locust, Green Japanese Maple, Colorado Blue Spruce, Bloodgood, Ginkgo, Copper Beech and a few others I can't remember, all mature, and all in a tight line indented into each other, and arranged tall, short, tall, short. The colors adjacent to each other for maximum contrast. Looking at it, I came to appreciate that someone had to have a really good idea of exactly what he was doing in placing that particular mix of trees in that particular mix of positions. As they say, "A man plants a flower for himself, and tree for posterity..."
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This is a better way to make a tree line, and it is organically formal to me because it is an intentionally created natural form, as opposed to the royally monolithic formal euro plantings so often shown by our friends across the pond.
