Beautiful tree in pot

[Lovemylittlebear]

Hi all

look for some help and advice please. We lost our beautiful 13 yr old dog Bryn last week. The vet told us that some people will buy there scatter tube in a potted tree so that if they move house the tree and pet goes with them. I think we will do this for at least as long as our old iggy girl is alive for and then maybe scatter them both together somewhere :(

can anyone recommend a beautiful tree that can live in a pot for at least a couple of years please? I absoloutely love cherry blossoms, magnolias and rose trees but I’m crap at gardening and normally just plant things in the garden and hope for the best.

any ideas on trees and advice very welcome thank you in advance x

sorry should say bury the scatter tube in a pot x

I'd go with a cherry for the lovely blossom or a twisted hazel for the lovely golden catkins.

I'm sorry for your loss, it's hard when a beloved pet dies.

I have 3 magnolia trees in separate pots. The pots should be large ones, with drainage holes ( you can drill holes easily yourself in a plastic pot). Plant the tree in good compost (John Innes) and add a good sprinkling of blood, fish and bone meal fertilizer.

The main problem would be the very heavy weight if you ever wanted to move it. You wouldn't be able to lift it.

My olive tree loves it in a pot. Water once a week in summer, feed when you remember!
My parents had a crab apple that did well but they were very good at gardening.

Lovely idea ❤️

Magnolia stellata is much smaller than regular magnolia and can manage in a pot.

You could also consider one of the acers - not much in the way of blossom, but many have leaves which change colour as the year passes.

I have an alemanchier which is currently in a pot, but it was only planted a year ago (was bare root) so it’s too early to tell how happy it will be.

I have a potted acer which, from the description, might be this one. It does go through all these colours!

Thank you ever so much for all of the wonderful ideas. This has brought me lots of comfort and something to distract me with today. Thank you very much, will show my husband all of these ideas xxxx

I absoloutely love the white magnolia stellata trees. Where would be the best place to purchase quite a large one from either on line or in person? Would rather get something that is already doing well and is harder to kill and big enough so that Bryn can go in the pot (what a weird thing to say) :(

thank you again x

A garden center rather than online. You can ask about the correct size pot for it.

I did the same thing when I lost my dog OP. I’ve got one of these trees, top grafted variety in a huge pot.

It is thriving four years on.

You have to feed it with a decent plant feed. I always use rootgrow whenever I play a tree and use the empathy tree food, both under planting essentials in the tree shop.

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I’ve had four trees from the shop on that link - they’re a good grower and they’re grown in the UK. Unlike even the garden centre with the biggest selection near me where they’re largely shipped in from Europe.

Ornamental Trees would be a good place to look, based in Yorkshire and a well-established company.

https://www.ornamental-trees.co.uk/about-us-i31

We bought a miniature cherry tree for our beloved dachshunds ashes. It's just flowered for the first time....on her birthday!
We got it from Thompson &Morgan

I'd go with an Acer, beautiful colours and slow growing. Easy to care for.

I agree that acers are lovely and do well in a pot.

If you like roses you could look at a standard rose (the "tree" style ones) which would do well in a pot and most roses are pretty easy to maintain. You can get memorial ones quite regularly, my local garden centre has lots so yours may do too? Something like this....

Acres thrive in pots, as do dwarf cherry trees and quince trees. The only hitch is the big pots can be heavy to shift.

If you need something easy to move, the tiny cherry Kojo No Mai is a very small shrub cherry.

@JulieHoney this is the one we got! Our dogs pedigree name included "Mai" so it was very apt for us.

@ohsuzannah , it’s a lovely tiny thing, isn’t it? Very earliest of all the cherries to flower, and such vivid scarlet foliage in autumn.

Thanks so much for the advice. We bought a rose style tree In the end but I loved all the ideas. My daughter saw it and asked why people gave each other roses. I said it’s normally to show someone that you love someone or you care about them when you are friends. She replied well I loved Bryn so I think we should get him a rose :)

I bought this tree???? Ages ago in a garden centre. The gentleman said just plant it and it would be fine but it’s done this 😂 I can’t even remember what it is. Does anyone know what it is and how to get it to grow up a bit rather than just put and down as it looks a right mess.

thank you 😊