It turns out that many Japanese Maples love to grow in containers or at least they grow so slow that they don't mind being in a container. Who knew that there are also a wide variety of mini fruit trees that can also grow happily in containers?
Thursday, March 31, 2011
In Praise of Trees
I think that I shall never see anything more lovely than a tree... I apologize Joyce Kilmer for rearranging the lines of your lovely poem but it is true I love trees in all of their amazing shapes and sizes. Two years ago Better Homes and Gardens or as I call it in my head (Better Homes Than Mine) featured a Seattle rooftop garden with a variety of trees planted in containers. It was a light bulb moment for me!
It turns out that many Japanese Maples love to grow in containers or at least they grow so slow that they don't mind being in a container. Who knew that there are also a wide variety of mini fruit trees that can also grow happily in containers?
So here I am two years later and I might need a trees anonymous program. In containers, I now have 3 fruit trees, 4 Japanese maples, 1 compact hinoki falsecypress, 1 crepe myrtle, and in the ground I have 2 apple colonnade trees, 2 dogwoods, and 1 mystery tree. Yes, that's right 13 trees on 640 sq. ft.
It turns out that many Japanese Maples love to grow in containers or at least they grow so slow that they don't mind being in a container. Who knew that there are also a wide variety of mini fruit trees that can also grow happily in containers?
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