One in all the handiest issues about repotting season is that it provides a possibility for us to lift discontinuance original containers for our trees.
After we transfer trees from practicing pots or poorly matched containers to one thing better, it will even be like having a brand original tree within the yard.
One tree that stumped me this year used to be a cork oak. The tree is original to the garden and has yet to be worked on, nonetheless I needed to search out a container that pleasant the tree and would supply some operate for pattern. (I frequently relate outsized containers for trees that are a pair of years faraway from having their final silhouette.)
Right here are some obvious and not-obvious alternatives for the cork oak along with comments about what I originate or don’t like about the combo.
Pot 1 – gray oval (unglazed) with crooked aspects
Over time I’ve ancient more gray pots for oaks than brown pots, and more ovals than rectangles. Gray clays call attention to the essentially gray bark and present disagreement to the brown stripes on the heinous of each fissure along the trunk.
The soft silhouettes of cork oaks lend themselves successfully to ovals, nonetheless now to not ovals with immense lips.
The above pot has a minute lip and two curves along the pot wall, one outward and one inward. I mediate that shape makes more sense with trees which include more curves along the trunk.
This pot is moreover on the minute aspect for a tree that can require several years of pattern sooner than having fundamental branches immense ample to enhance the corky trunk.
The 2nd pot I attempted is moreover a gray oval, nonetheless the perimeters include a single curve outward and the dimensions is a greater fit for the tree.
Pot 2 – gray oval (unglazed) that flares outward
This isn’t my popular shape pot for cork oaks, nonetheless it’s not some distance off and the dimensions is factual for the time being.
The next pot I attempted doesn’t include a lip, nonetheless the perimeters are vertical which I don’t mediate suits the tree completely.
Pot 3 – reddish/brown oval (unglazed) without a lip
I’m moreover not keen on the color, and the container is manner too shallow for this stage of pattern.
Subsequent up is a unhappy gray rectangle.
Pot 4 – gray rectangle (unglazed) with window
Rectangles strike me as too stable for oaks that don’t include big trunks or angular aspects. The depth of the above rectangle makes the trunk thought minute.
I mediate the brown rectangle underneath is a greater match for the tree, nonetheless it’s not immense and it’s too immense for the tree.
Pot 5 – brown rectangle (unglazed) with band and pinched corners
As you would take into yarn within the pronounce underneath, even better depth and cloud toes aren’t a factual complement for the tree. One thing identical might per chance per chance well per chance be acceptable when the tree is closer to its final silhouette, nonetheless the more ornate details would perfect originate sense to me if the tree had strikingly sophisticated aspects like a ideally pleasant silhouette, immense surface roots, and clearly outlined pads – all aspects that we don’t customarily associate with cork oaks.
Pot 6 – deep brown rectangle (unglazed) with pronounced lip and cloud toes
The above containers are all made in Japan. To verify out a pot with much less sophisticated aspects, I attempted a pair of home containers made by Sara Rayner. The principle used to be an unglazed oval.
Pot 7 – informal brown oval (unglazed) by Sara Rayner
Even supposing this color of brown isn’t my popular match for the oak, it’s not some distance off and I just like the celebrated shape as the perimeters a cramped bit flare outward. It’s too mammoth, then all over again, and a cramped unheard of for this stage of pattern.
No longer forgetting that broadleaf evergreens can thought factual in glazed pots, I attempted a deep rectangle with rounded aspects.
Pot 8 – blue rounded rectangle by Sara Rayner
I in actual fact just like the combo right here. Were the pot not mammoth for the tree I’d most likely relate it as a rising container. I’ll motivate this pot in mind if I encounter a elevated oak as I mediate the color and shape swimsuit the tree successfully.
Lastly, I attempted a prettier model of the above pot nonetheless chanced on it to be too magnificent (and too immense) for the oak.
Pot 9 – blue oval with bullets by Sara Rayner
It turns out I didn’t include the “ideally pleasant” container for the tree, nonetheless ideally pleasant is relative at this stage as the tree would originate colorful in a lot of the above pots as it’ll have discontinuance 5 or more years sooner than the tree has a polished silhouette.
I went with the 2nd gray oval as I just like the color and size for the tree even supposing it’s not the precise shape I’d capture to relate in some unspecified time in the future.
After repotting (pot #2), 22″ wide
It is likely you’ll per chance well per chance count on that I went with the replacement aspect of the tree as the front – additional proof that the tree has a ways to transfer!
Construct which you might per chance include a popular container amongst the alternatives above – or a truly thoroughly different model that you suspect complements cork oaks successfully? Scream us within the comments underneath.
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