{"id":14775,"date":"2012-11-13T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T07:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14775"},"modified":"2012-11-12T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:15:18","slug":"growing-cotoneaster-as-small-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/growing-cotoneaster-as-small-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Cotoneaster as Small Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/trees-and-shrubs\/cotoneaster-horizontalis-growing-tips\/\">Cotoneaster horizontalis<\/a> in urban gardens producing masses of berries to feed the birds in late winter.<br \/>\nThe larger shrubs and trees also provide a similar avian food supply and look very good in a larger garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8166237948\/\" title=\"Cotoneaster by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8060\/8166237948_81e80d39ab.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Cotonester\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cotoneaster species number over 250 and the section devoted to larger trees and shrubs is called Chaenopetalum.<br \/>\nThe flowers are  produced  in corymbs (flower clusters whose lower stalks are proportionally longer so that the flowers form a flat or slightly convex head.) The blossom has more than 20 floweras together. The creamy white petals open flat.<br \/>\nMany species are evergreen and generally larger shrubs but Cotoneaster frigidus are small trees up to 50 ft tall. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Small Tree Species<\/strong><br \/>\nCotoneaster Cornubia watereri group has red fruit that can weigh down the branches<br \/>\nCotoneaster hybridius pendulus with glossy leaves<br \/>\nCotoneaster watereri are a group of strong growing plants with orange &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/environmental-gardening\/trees-and-shrubs-for-birds\/\">red berries loved by birds<\/a>.<br \/>\nCotoneaster \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcExburiensis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 like many other species have leaves that turn red in winter.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/display-026.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cotoneaster\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/display-026.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/display-026-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/display-026-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are familiar with Cotoneaster horizontalis in urban gardens producing masses of berries to feed the birds in late winter. The larger shrubs and smaller trees in the large group of Cotoneasters also provide a similar avian food supply and look very good in a larger garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}