ID please

[mrbadexample]

Good evening,

 

Could someone tell me what this is please, if the photographs are good enough?

 

It turned up at my old house growing between paving slabs. I liberated it and stuck it in a pot. I like a trier. 

 

Thanks,

MBE

 

[Stere]

leylandii

[mrbadexample]

Thanks Stere, I thought it might be as it seems a bit of a thug.

 

I have moved to a new house with a large but troublesome garden. I am unable to have trees due to underground utilities so it's a bit devoid of height and cover for the birds.

 

Bearing in mind the tree is at least 5 years old and has been kept stunted in a pot, how big do you think it might get now I've given it the biggest pot I can? 

 

 

 

[Khriss]

Dead... As no drain fr water.   Cut that tub down an pierce bottom. Put a nice Rowan in it fr the birdies with a feeder in it. K

[mrbadexample]

1 hour ago, Khriss said:

Dead... As no drain fr water.  

Can't you see the holes underneath? 

[Derek Eames]

Suggest not a Leylandii as being a genetic cross is entirely sterile and can only grow from cuttings. Possibly a Lawson Cypress.

[daltontrees]

7 hours ago, Derek Eames said:

Suggest not a Leylandii as being a genetic cross is entirely sterile and can only grow from cuttings. Possibly a Lawson Cypress.

I wouldn't say 'entirely'. There is some evidence of flowering, and I have definitely seen cones on what I thought was Haggerston Grey, This is backed up in the Collin guide I think.

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, daltontrees said:

I wouldn't say 'entirely'. There is some evidence of flowering, and I have definitely seen cones on what I thought was Haggerston Grey, This is backed up in the Collin guide I think.

RHS wisley definitely grew from a leylandii cone.

 

What you have to consider is both crosses occur so a male Nootka and female macrocarpa produce one leylandii hybrid and a male macrocarpa and female nootka produce another, one may be sterile but the other not.

[mrbadexample]

On 12/12/2020 at 15:11, Derek Eames said:

Suggest not a Leylandii as being a genetic cross is entirely sterile and can only grow from cuttings. Possibly a Lawson Cypress.

It does have little cones on it like a Lawson Cypress.

 

It's not dead yet. 

 

Seriously though, how big can I expect this to get in its barrel? Please.