Tea-Break Tutorials - Choosing a Tree

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Choose the right tree for your garden without fear of too much shade or root invasion. Alan says ‘no garden is too small for a tree’ so let him help you add stature and enrich your garden with wildlife. Discover how trees can provide fruit, nuts and even garden stakes. With Alan’s extra tips on planting you’ll be able to establish a strong, long lasting tree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.6	Hello and welcome to brand new Gardner's World Magazine podcast series, exploring some of the key issues that incense and inspire gardeners. These are handy expert guides to some of the topics and techniques.
0:47.4	The team at Gardner's World are asked about time and time again. Cuttings, tomatoes, pests,
0:55.0	pests, pests, blooming blight,ing, to name but a few.
0:59.0	In this exclusive series, I'm going to talk about some of these big questions
1:03.0	and share with you my practical, no-nonsense solution.
1:08.0	I'll lead you, not down the garden path, but to a more successful, hopefully less
1:13.6	stressful approach to tackling common garden woes and getting the garden of your dreams.
1:19.6	I want to help you to have more time enjoying the fruits and flowers of your labours, and less time actually laboring. People, particularly with small gardens, tend to be rather fearful of putting trees in a garden.
1:54.3	Oh, they're too big, they'll take over, they'll take all the nutrition out of the soil, they'll cast too much shade, they'll move my house foundations.
2:01.9	But trees give stature to a garden. And if the right ones are chosen for the right garden,
2:07.6	they needn't be a problem. And that is the key, to look at the size of your plot and to choose a tree
2:14.2	that won't eat you out of house and home. Any garden, however small, can take a
2:19.0	Japanese maple. They don't have roots that attack foundations or do any damage at all, and they
2:25.3	grow at most 10, 12 feet tall, but they do give you garden stature and structure. And gardens on
2:32.9	the flat do tend to lack that kind of verticality,
2:37.6	which makes them a place to escape into. I always say to people, when it comes to planting things
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