Kitchen Garden Forum

Can anyone help please with some advice.

Big Andrew bought me a cherry blossom and a silver burch tree and I have them both planted in separate large pots. They have been in the pots for 12 months now and seem quite happy. They are very young trees, no more than saplings with a very narrow trunk on each but there are loads of leaves on each one.

I am wanting to keep them in large pots but can plant them out. They still have on the green trunk protectors and I would like to know when would be the best time to take them off. Also, when would be the best time to plant them in open ground if I decide to do so. I have no idea at all.

And advice please

Lizzie, by trunk protector do you mean a spiral of stiff plastic?
If so that is only to prevent rabbits and deer eating the bark or whole plant respectively.
So got many of them in your garden?

As for planting out, whenever you please, but they will need watering until established if done now.
Left until the leaves drop in autumn, then planted out they probably won't need watering the following year, or at any rate not much.

Hi Peter

Thanks for the reply

They are stiff green plastic and look like a big kitchen roll inner tube, with perforations on both sides. There is also a small bamboo cane with black ties that goes through the green tube and around the bamboo cane.

There aren't any bunnies that I know of Peter.