Sorbus Copper Kettle
Sorbus ‘Copper Kettle’ is a compact mountain ash prized for its unusual copper-coloured berries and excellent autumn display. Creamy-white flowers appear in spring, followed by generous clusters of copper-orange fruit that remain on the branches into winter, gradually changing to golden yellow. Its deep green, divided leaves turn vivid shades of orange and red before falling.
Growing to around 5 metres tall with a spreading crown, ‘Copper Kettle’ provides several seasons of colour without becoming too large for an average garden. It is suitable for cottage gardens, wildlife planting and urban spaces, and can be grown in full sun or partial shade.
This hardy, RHS Award of Garden Merit variety grows in clay, loam or sandy soil, provided it is moist but well drained. It needs little routine pruning and is an attractive, dependable choice for gardeners looking for a smaller rowan with distinctive berries. The fruit is ornamental and should not be eaten.
Most likely to be a seedling of S. ‘Joseph Rock'.
What Our Customers Are Saying About Our Sorbus Copper Kettle
Hello Alan Dogsbody Thank you for your message below and being so considerate *about the Sorbus Gibbsii, Sorbus Copepr Kettle, Sorbus Joseph Rock and Sorbus Rosiness. The fruit trees you have already supplied were very nice condition and are now happy in the ground - Thank you. Best wishes Ed 0820-25535
Good afternoon Alan, Great timing, my trees arrived today and my patio got finished yesterday so perfect for me to now plan where I plant. All 3 trees *(180-240cm Copper Kettle, 200-300cm Snow Queen and Multi0stem snow Queen) are a brilliant size and although the single stem are nearly bare I can tell they are really healthy. Thanks for your help, Many thanks Issy Homan 151020
Just to say thank you for our lovely Rowan tree -- delivered this morning and in the garden looking splendid . If it grows as well as the silver birch we bought a couple of years ago we will be very happy. Dee. D 0813
I received my tree - Sorbus 'Copper Kettle' today. It came in very good condition - not a single branch was bent or broken - Thank you.I am really looking forward to spring :-) When I can see it in flower for the first time and hopefully with berries later in the season. I buy very happy with your company again and will also recommend your company to my gardening friends in Denmark. Sincerely, Susanne Olsen 1112
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Ornamental Tree Roots In The Shade e.g. Behind A Fence
It is more important that that foliage (posh term for leaves) receives the sunlight than the roots. So if the canopy of your ornamental tree can sunbathe but the bottom of your tree thinks there has been a nuclear winter then that is ok. You might want to ensure you have good drainage as water and no sun is the start of algae and other such issues.
Do I Need To Stake My Ornamental Tree?
Our article on Tree Staking should help guide you.
Planting In The Corner Of A Garden
Air and light is reduced in this location which could promote fungus and bacterial issues. If the corner is of the house and a fence then you also have leeching issues to contend with from cement and wood preservatives. Also when it rains, that area would experience higher water levels so we advise against it unless the plant is very hardy.
