Trees For Smaller Spaces

Bottlebrush Buckeye

Even though nosotros accept 2.5 acres, nosotros accept created smaller garden spaces some the delineate solid where nosotros accept planted PawPaw, Japanese Maple together with Witch Hazel elderberry that accept been successful inwards our soil. 

We've equally good planted small, short-living, trees such equally Crabapple, Walkingstick, together with Redbud that are pocket-size plenty only tend to final 10 years or so. 

Many shrubs tin equally good endure pruned into pocket-size trees to brand a hedgerow to a greater extent than interesting. These include Smoketree, Burning Bush, Flowering Almond, Tea Rose Trees, together with all the weeping trees (peach, willow, honeylocust), 

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Hawthorn berries

Maple trees:
Acer negundo ‘Flamingo’  25 ftAcer palmatum (Japanese maple) 4-25 ft 
Acer tataricum ginnala (Amur maple) xx ft 

Buckeye (we accept these ii varieties that are thriving - part-shade)Aesculus parviflora 'Bottlebrush buckeye' 5-10 ftAesculus pavia (red buckeye) 10-20 ft 
Serviceberry
Amelanchier arborea (downy serviceberry) 22 ft 

Chokecherry

Hornbeam
Carpinus caroliniana (American hornbean) 25 ft 

Redbud (many bloom colors to select from)
Cercis canadensis (eastern redbud) 5-20 ft 

Smoketree (there are several varieties then await around)
Cotinus obovatus (American smoketree) 5-25 ft 

Hawthorn (we accept ii for the pollinators together with the songbirds)
Crataegus spp. (hawthorn) 15-30 ft  

Witch Hazel (January flowers inwards 1 of our bloom beds)
Hamamelis virginiana (common witch hazel) 15-22 ft

Native Plum

Crabapple (many sizes together with colors)
Malus spp. (crabapple), 10-25 ft 

Plum & Cherry (we planted natives for combat row habitat nether ability lines)Prunus cerasifera ‘Newport’ (Newport royal foliage plum) xv ft Prunus maackii (Manchurian cherry)  22 ftPrunus serrulata ‘Kwanzan’ (flowering cherry) 22 ft Prunus virginiana (chokecherry) xv ft 

Pussy Willow 
Salix discolor (American pussywillow) xv ft  

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