Which trees have grown well on your garden if you have clay soil?

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That’s it really, looking for some advice on what would work in our clay soil to add some privacy. Many thanks.

I have a Rowan and an autumn flowering cherry. Neither of them are evergreen though, so they wouldn't give year round privacy.

If you go here you can search by soil type, sun level, exposure level etc to find your perfect tree!

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We have a lovely Rowan.

I'd love a cherry, preferably spring/summer flowering.

We have a hawthorn which is doing very well.

Our cherry doesn't really know its arse from its elbow, it's had blossom since about December and the last ones are still there.

We have a very happy pink flowering hawthorn in really heavy clay soil

Any kind of willow does well here

Hawthorns are lovely, proper olde worlde trees. Great for wildlife too.

We have a bamboo I pulled from our neighbours garden. Theirs is covered on all 3 sides by bamboo

Cherry blossom, hawthorn and rowan trees. The only fruit we had success with were apple and plum.

I've got a silver birch and a crab apple doing well. The sorbus isn't, not sure why.

I took a photo of the crab apple this morning, as it happens. The yellowish shrub is dogwood, they do well and provide colour in winter and some coverage in summer.

We've got heavy at soil and our apple and pear trees have thrived along with a spiky plant that over the last 10 years has turned into a huge tree (sorry don't know what it called!)

Pyracantha - very spiney , white flowers , orange berries . Very dense , loves our clay soil.

Loads of people round here have magnolia ( serious they are beautiful )

Forsythia

Californian lilac

Buddliah - grows anywhere !

Our soil is clay and we have a cherry tree that has done brilliantly, our Magnolia not so much (not helped by next door's trampoline smashing through it in the bad weather this winter). We also have a grapevine that loves it especially as we are south facing - it fills in along the top of our fence beautifully and screens us from next door all summer.

How close to the house?

Willow does great but can be an absolute bugger for roots causing issues.

Small flowering cherry, crab apple and apple trees do well in clay

Roman and silver birch trees, as well as several apple, pear and Victoria plum trees all do very well in our clay soil. We also have fig trees which are a bit of a mixed bag but even if the harvest is poor they look lovely and are quite small. We also have a couple of beautiful oak trees but they are huge so not suitable for many gardens

Similar to others I have Apple, Rowan, Lilac, Californian Lilac, Buddliah, Hawthorn, Willow and Hazel plus Box hedge.

Wow thanks for all the replies! I want to buy them all! On a side note, I didn’t realised how expensive trees are!

Eucalyptus does well, particularly in wet areas. Keep it away from buildings, as it can suck water from the foundations.

Eucalyptus does well, particularly in wet areas. Keep it away from buildings, as it can suck water from the foundations.

Some eucalyptus can get big, fast, even in the U.K. and you end up with a tall thin trunk with foliage at the top which won't give you privacy.
and then they are liable to get blown down ... another good reason to keep away from buildings. There used to be some over the lane behind our house ... really wouldn't recommend!

Not me personally,but my late DM had clay soil in her garden. There was a twisted willow,a copper beech,buddliah,laurel,a Norwegian Spruce (although that got a bit out of hand and ended up topping 50 feet),an ornamental cherry tree,forsythia and a lavetera.

another vote for crab apple here - beautiful blossom and so easy to make jelly from the fruit. Eucalyptus are a bit dead as a habitat in the UK as none of the local bugs etc like them

Hawthorns and crab apples. Loads of birds nesting in the hawthorn at the moment and I think the blossom is even more magical than our crab apples.

Very heavy clay here. We and the neighbours have rowan, cherry, apple, maple, silver birch and crab apple

Our apple trees were £10 each from Tesco, they have grown beautifully and have a good crop of apples every year.