I currently have no garden of which to speak, and I miss growing things. I always enjoyed trimming and shaping the hedges my grandparents had, and I'd quite like the miniature ponce version for my room. Growing and maintaining one sounds a lot like the /eco/ version of airfix. Bliss.
Anyway, I was wondering where to start. What species are suited to the indoors? Do I grow one from seedling or buy one already grown? Where do I buy the containers and the tree?
I'm sure one good PDF will set me off but I'd like to know if any britfa have any experience.
TL;DR - I want a tiny tree for my flat. Where do I start?
>>1700 Starting them off yourself is very time consuming. I have a tiny oak tree in a pot, it has taken five years to look anything like a tree. Buy one ready made, they're about 20 quid from a garden centre. I love them.
Relatively speaking, that's not all that cheap - a plant of a similar size that didn't require as much attention could only be a fiver or so. Also, from my limited research, it depends how old they are. A 3 year old one is £20, but a 6 year old one is £50. They have older ones upwards of a hundred quid.
I wasn't talking about relative prices, I was talking about how they can sell something so cheaply that apparently takes so long and so much effort to produce.
I mean that some other kind of plant might also be two years old, and it will also require maintenance, just not as much. If you're talking about man hours, I can only imagine they do a whole load of them en masse, and don't spend nearly as much time and attention on them as the eventual owner will.
I can't speculate any further, I don't even own one yet.
