Top Ten UK Garden Trees
Trees small enough for your garden can still provide a range of interest. That may be leave shape, blossom, berries, bark or colour changes.
This selection grow 15-50 feet high with a maximum spread of 30 feet.
Top Ten Garden Trees
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- Sorbus or Mountain Ash make fine specimen trees. Sorbus vilmorinii has creamy white flowers and a typical scent in spring. Clusters of red berries fade to white but the feathery leaf turns a dark red in autumn.
- Arbutus andrachne or unedo aka the Strawberry tree has glossy evergreen leaves and white flowers. The trunk is also a feature on these 20′ trees.
- Ornamental cherry trees have stunning displays of spring flowers. Try Prunus x subhirtella Autumnalis
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- Silver birches Betula jacquemontii Grayswood Ghost has yekllow catkins and good autumn colour.
- Ornamental Crab Apples have caught my attention recently and malus floribunda with pale pink flowers followed by golden fruit gives interest through until winter.
- Judas Tree, Cercis siliquastrum is covered in pink blossom before the leaves arrive in spring. This is followed by purple pods that can last through winter.
- Acers are ever popular and the palmatum varieties offer late season colour changes to the leaves. Osakazuki and sango-kaku are currently on offer.