Tree Planting in Wet Areas

[Giles Hill]

I'd have a look around at what else is growing locally in similar areas and think of sticking with the natives, for ecological reasons and also the exotics can look a bit out of place in the countryside. Ash and hawthorn will cope with a bit of seasonal flooding and you often find them beside rivers. Native black poplar should do well and they have a lot of character when they get bigger.

[liamjordan]

I'd have a look around at what else is growing locally in similar areas and think of sticking with the natives, for ecological reasons and also the exotics can look a bit out of place in the countryside. Ash and hawthorn will cope with a bit of seasonal flooding and you often find them beside rivers. Native black poplar should do well and they have a lot of character when they get bigger.

yeahh i would like to keep it native actually, but want a bit of change from willow and alder,

 

would oak do well? i've seen big oak trees in swamps, but im sure the establishment is pretty hard on them in these conditions

[Giles Hill]

I was going to mention oak, as you do see them in riverside pasture areas, and as you say they soon encroach onto swampland, they're pretty adaptive.

 

Judging by the picture on the other thread it looked like that oak was getting on nicely before the ground started disappearing!

 

Some of the non-native autumn foliage oaks are good on moist sites - Q. rubra and Q. palustris