Ideas For Trees When Landscaping Your Patio

If you have only a small knowledge of trees and only have one or two hours to spend pottering around your patio and the thought of employing an expert on a regular basis is not acceptable to your bank balance then you might want to put a little bit of thought into which sort of tree would be best suited for providing you straightforwardness of growth and low maintenance before purchasing. Listed below are low upkeep trees, evergreen or deciduous and with or without fruit that may be excellent for your garden or patio.

Snow Gum

A tiny upright evergreen with elliptic leaves that may become even more angled as the tree moves into its mature stages. It can reach 4 – 8 metres in height which should take it somewhere between 20 – 50 years to reach and offers a white flower when in bloom together with foliage which is green and silver/grey.

Chinese Privet

An evergreen tree which is small and bushy. It has broad elliptical leaves which can reach a length of 15cm. It can reach 8 -12 metres in height during a time span of 20 to 50 years and provides an off white flower when in bloom together with a small black berry fruit.

Cherry ‘Kiku-shidare-zakura ‘

A tiny weeping tree which is deciduous and whose branches arch from its trunk. It can reach 2 – 4 metres in height over a period of 20 to 50 years and offers flowers in later spring which are a rich pink in color. During the spring its foliage is both green and bronze however; by summer will be entirely green.

Coral Bark Maple

This is a small deciduous tree. It'll grow up to 6 metres in height in a time-frame of 10 to 20 years. It bears leaves on coral red branches in its early years which are a yellow and pink color. In the summer months they'll turn green and fall back to yellow in the autumn. It offers little reddish flowers when in bloom.

Sycamore ‘Brilliantissimum ‘

This is a little deciduous tree with a rounded crown. It can reach 4 to 8 metres in height and width. Its leaves will at first open pink in colour then change to combine yellow with green before eventually turning into a more specific dark green with cream mottling. It'll flower in the autumn however; they're rarely produced in abundance.

Some trees form a framework that is well-branched naturally and as such need no pruning. In fact hard pruning could really lead them to spoil. The trees mentioned above all fall into this category and dependent on which tree only require a light pruning either in the early spring or late winter.

Whilst all of these trees can be acquired at a tender age from your local garden centre it can be enjoyable and inexpensive to try growing trees from seed or cuttings which can often be tried with all those above. However; patience is required as it can take one or two years to produce a tree.

You can find information of different types trees on websites like Wikipedia. They have a entire section dedicated to Trees of Britain and Ireland.

John Alst has a number of years of tree surgery experience gained thru working for a tree surgeon based in Essex.