Garden Urns And Potted Fruit Trees
When most gardeners start talking about garden urns, there is usually no shortage of good ideas for how to use them. That’s good news because a challenge that faces many gardeners with a garden urn or two hanging around is deciding what to put it them.
One often overlooked option is to look into the possibility of actually planting potted fruit trees. There are plenty of benefits that can follow from doing this. In the first place, these trees are often quite visually pleasing – the arching branches, the colorful blossoms.
But focusing on that is to miss the real joy of fruit trees – of course, we are talking about the fruit. Depending on where you live, you might be able to grow your own lemons or plums. You can grow peaches and apples. You can even grow your own cherries.
Plenty of gardeners have discovered the joy of ambling out into the garden in late summer or early fall and picking a peck of their own Macintosh apples. You can eat them raw or make your own pies and crisps!
Not only that, but you can also get into the challenge of growing heirloom fruit. How about growing some apples that haven’t been seen in your neck of the woods for over a century? There are plenty of online seed suppliers who are happy to help you in this type of endeavor.
Keep in mind that when you plant these trees in artificial containers, the urn in question has to be designed for trees with large root balls. Choose one that’s too small and you are dooming the tree from the start. You can start with something small to get the tree off and running, but you’ll need something large and sturdy once the tree has come along.
Remember as well that trees are heavier than plants as a rule and so the container they are in will need a sturdy base. Choose one that has tall sides and is made of a material that isn’t light and readily toppled.
Finally, be sure that you choose a garden urn that is made of water resistant wood. This doesn’t mean that you can’t use a plastic urn or even a cement or terra cotta one. But wood tends to resist absorbing the water which leaves it for the tree.
Show your fruit tree a lot of love. Give it some really rich soil and throw in some compost now and again. Shower it with attention now and you’ll be reaping a fruit salad before you know it.
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