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What to plant IN a tree cavity....?


kevinjohnsonmbe
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I have tried Ivy 'Glacier' which trails nicely but need a lot more water than it normally gets in a hanging basket.

 

If it's a tree you're after, Rowan is a great opportunist and if you want to show off go for a Joseph Rock.

 

Birch too, Ive seen it settle down nicely in stumps, I saw one last year that was left standing on 2' high legs long after the stump was gone.

 

A  mixture of Lathyrus (Sweet Pea) will trail nicely and has the advantage of being leguminous and will produce its own nitrates in what will otherwise be a limited soil. Quite brief flowering though.

 

There's some nice trailing Fuchsias but they can be useless without occasional watering.

 

Might be worth boring the stem right through to the cavity in a few places too, a fern on top might not be wet enough but on the stem could do well. You'd need to tamp in bags and bags of mulch like a cannon to get a self-sustaining soggy substrate. An alliterative success but otherwise a bit experimental.

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