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Post by sweetpea on May 15, 2013 17:18:14 GMT
Looks like my laburnum has succumbed to old age or something. Will wait a little longer but it seems a goner to me. was a lovely tree in flower.  I will either have to attempt the nigh impossible (for me) task of digging it out or do you reckon it safe to plant a rose and clematis to scramble up throuh it? I was thinking, rosa Filipes Kiftsgate which I have grown before but not too sure of which clematis to try. The tree is 20' x 15' |
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Post by Cherry on May 15, 2013 19:09:07 GMT
That is a real shame Sweetpea. It was a beautiful tree. I would chop it down, leaving a stump for a bird bath or whatever. Kiftsgate rose is far too big for a normal house, even though your garden is large. I have Dorothy Perkins growing up a telegraph pole and this is behaving like a blackberry and roots everywhere it touches as well as climbing. It is pretty, but out of control. I grew Cecile Brunner through a large old Bramley apple in Oxfordshire. It had lovely old fashioned blooms which I could pick and enjoy in a vase. At 20 ft it is still a big one. My Clematis macropetala is just gorgeous growing through the laburnum. It is nearing the top and very early but the flowers last for a long time. If you plant a rose, go for something like Cecile Brunner and the clematis too. Clematis macropetala is so early, it won't get in the way and it will go up.
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Post by sweetpea on May 15, 2013 21:46:31 GMT
That is a real shame Sweetpea. It was a beautiful tree. I would chop it down, leaving a stump for a bird bath or whatever. Kiftsgate rose is far too big for a normal house, even though your garden is large. I have Dorothy Perkins growing up a telegraph pole and this is behaving like a blackberry and roots everywhere it touches as well as climbing. It is pretty, but out of control. I grew Cecile Brunner through a large old Bramley apple in Oxfordshire. It had lovely old fashioned blooms which I could pick and enjoy in a vase. At 20 ft it is still a big one. My Clematis macropetala is just gorgeous growing through the laburnum. It is nearing the top and very early but the flowers last for a long time. If you plant a rose, go for something like Cecile Brunner and the clematis too. Clematis macropetala is so early, it won't get in the way and it will go up. |
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Post by Geranium on May 16, 2013 4:52:11 GMT
I suspect they might not be very long-lived trees. I had one in Kent and that died - and fell over suddenly on a windy day!  They are beautiful trees and I'm sorry you've lost yours.  |
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Post by Rosie on May 16, 2013 9:15:13 GMT
Thats a shame Sweetpea, it's a stunning tree. I have a rose Mme Alfred Carriere and it's meant to grow to about 20/25ft so that might work through your tree.
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Post by peony on May 16, 2013 10:23:44 GMT
It was a lovely tree SP and its a shame it seems to be dying. We've had one in our garden for 25 years and have had to have a couple of branches taken off which had some sort of funghi on them. I grow a clematis through mine.
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Post by sweetpea on May 16, 2013 10:42:25 GMT
There does appear to be some sort of fungal growth on some of the branches.
By the way, that pic was taken a few years ago before I got my new camera hence the rather washed out colours.
I know laburnums in general are not the longest lived trees but it is always a shame when something of that stature pops its clogs.
Will be checking the local nurseries for clematis and roses now.
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Post by Rosie on May 21, 2013 11:43:31 GMT
Have you decided on anything yet Sweetpea?
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