Patio and Small Garden trees.

This is one of the most beautiful small trees for the ornamental landscape. It is perfectly suited as a specimen tree, an accent in a mixed border, or in a container on the patio. It anchors the Japanese style garden. Many of the cultivars remain quite small and are especially useful in small gardens, even rock gardens, and for bonsai. The brilliant autumn foliage lights up the garden, and the slender twigs and contorted branches provide winter interest. The Dissectum Tamukeyama is a strongly cascading selection which holds up very well under high heat and humidity. It is generally considered to be the most heat tolerant of the red laceleaf dissectums; and the best choice for the warmer climates but does very well in Ireland and Britain. The new foliage is deep crimson red changing to dark purple-red. Beautiful bright scarlet autumn coloration. A very hardy plant reaching 10-12' with age. Click the image to read more!

Also known as Coral Tower or Coral Bark, this beautiful Japanese maple is understandably popular for its bright coral red bark in winter, pale yellow-green leaf in spring and apricot and gold leaf in the Autumn. Sango Kaku offers year round interest with the striking feature of this cultivar being the ever changing colours from spring through summer and Autumn. It is strong grower in youth. If planted in a container the height may reach 6 to 10 feet and within a landscape can reach a height of 16 to 20 feet. Click the image to read more!

Malus Gorgeous - Flowering Crab Apple has an average height of 2-4 metres x 2-3 metres wide. It is a very pretty deciduous New Zealand hybrid. Small tree with masses of small pink buds opening to single white flowers in spring. Red fruits can be used in cooking. Single trunk with upright branches which can become open and pendulous under the weight of fruit. Best grown in a protected sunny site in rich fertile soil. This attractive tree, which is one of the most popular of the crab apples, is rightly called 'Gorgeous'. At less than 3m tall, it is only a small tree. The bright crimson-red fruit, touched with orange on the underside, is borne in heavy clusters on long stems. While the flowers are quite insipid, the budding branches are often used in floral arrangements. The fruit makes an excellent jelly. M. 'Gorgeous' grows in any soil, including heavy clay, and is resistant to most diseases. It's perfect for a sunny part of any cool-climate garden but also loves a heavy frost. Click the image to read more!

The attractive little European fan palm has become very popular in recent years, mostly due to its cold hardiness. This small, multi-stemmed, hardy palm is the only one native to Europe, and is hardier than most palms. The curved, clumping, short trunks and gray-green, fan-shaped leaves, borne thickly in a bushy head, make a stunning sculptural element in a garden or patio containers. The fine-textured fronds make the palm stand out from other plants in the landscape. Leaf color on individual plants ranges from light green through silver. Although growth rate is slow, it is well worth the wait since even small Plants will stand out nicely in almost any landscape. By removing suckers from the base of the main trunk, this slightly salt-tolerant palm may also be trained as a single-trunked palm. Since the leaf stalks are spiny, the Fan Palm may also be used as a barrier, planted three to five feet apart. It makes a nice accent plant in a shrub border or in a low-growing groundcover. It can also be planted several feet apart in a mass on a large-scale landscape forming a fine-textured accent area. Growing best in moist rich soil, it is drought- and wind-resistant, and established plants will survive temperatures to 10-degrees F. or below, in full sun or light shade. Plants grow very slowly in the shade. Click the image to read more!

Compact tree with clusters of large, fragrant, semi-double pale pink blooms that smother the branches in late spring. This upright, columnar Japanese cherry is one of the best ornamental trees for a small garden. It will thrive in any soil but does need plenty of sunshine to flower well. Prune in summer to reduce the risk of silver leaf and bacterial canker. Cut back any dead, diseased or branches which cross to healthy wood. Fully hardy, average growth rate and tolerates most soils. Click the image to read more!

The Bay laurel is a tree or large shrub with aromatic, evergreen leaves and shiny gray bark. It can reach 60 ft (18.3 m) in height in its native range, but generally is much smaller, 3-10 ft (0.9-3.1 m) tall. in culture. The Bay laurel sometimes produces suckers from the base. The leaves are elliptic, 3-4 in (7.6-10.2 cm) long, rather thick and leathery, and shiny dark green. Clusters of small yellow flowers are produced in spring, followed, on the female plants, by shiny black or purple berries about 0.5 in (1.3 cm) long. There are several cultivars, including: 'Aurea', with yellowish young foliage; 'Angustifolia' (also called willow-leaf bay), with narrow lance-shaped leaves; and 'Undulata' with wavy leaf margins. Click the image to read more!

The wonderfully statuesque, Oriental Black Bamboo (Phyllostachys Nigra), is a rare and unusual plant that will create a fantastic focal point in your garden. It's arching green canes turn lustrous black in their second or third year, while it's abundant glossy leaves remain evergreen. It forms a clump, but unlike other varieties of bamboo, it isn't invasive and can be grown in a half barrel or very large container. A very ornamental plant. There are many named forms of this species, some of them are given specific status by some botanists. These forms include 'Boryana', 'Fulva', 'Henonis' and 'Punctata'. It is the form 'Henonis' that is normally used medicinally in China. Even though its origins are in China, it's fully hardy and the British winter won't harm it, making a very welcome and unexpected winter treat for visitors to your garden. Click the image to read more!

Bright red-maroon thread-like foliage may have green overlay for summer. The autumn colors are breathtaking. All of a sudden, this red tree turns a brilliant golden-yellow, touched and spotted with crimson. Red Pygmy is outstanding in containers, and in Japanese gardens it cant be beat! Small to about 6 feet in a container and a little larger in the landscape. Click the image to read more!

Red Select, (Leaves of Rice Plant) is one of the old Japanese cultivars, Inaba shidare is very different in habit from the other dissectums. It would make a tree even if not staked, its habit undulates upward, and yet it retains the weeping effect. The deep ruby red of the leaves holds all summer and the bright red petioles set off the color quite nicely. It is easy to grow, takes the hot sun and humidity well, and makes an outstanding container tree. Click the image to read more!

An evergreen shrub growing to 3m by 3m. It is in leaf all year, in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in October. The scented flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Flies and midges. It is noted for attracting wildlife. The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils, requires well-drained soil and can grow in heavy clay and nutritionally poor soils. The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils and can grow in very alkaline soil. It can grow in full shade (deep woodland) semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It requires dry or moist soil. The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. It can tolerate atmospheric pollution. Click the image to read more!