I ordered a cherry (“Porthos”) a little while ago. Of course, it arrived in the middle of the period of lying snow we’ve just had. The half-barrel for it to live in arrived yesterday, as did several bags of compost. So today it’s planted. I’ve stuck in some lithospermum plants that were being horribly overgrown by other things elsewhere … given how pot-bound the cherry was, I don’t think they’ll be any kind of competition for the next year or so.
I have some doubts about the cherry – it claims to be the world’s first bush cherry (ie not a shrub or tree), a description which it will need to live up to, as I have absolutely no room in the garden for anything big. The RHS says eventual height 1.5 to 2.5 metres … I’ll try to keep it at the lower end of this (assuming it survives). But gardening (for me) is partly about experimenting and taking risks, some of which don’t quite come off …
