5 Great Trees for Small Spaces
trees are a beautiful part of any home landscape but one thing that people tend to forget about when planting trees and choosing trees is that trees grow and just because you got something that was four feet tall in the pot does not mean that thing can't eventually grow into a hundred foot monster this is too big for most suburban yards so I'm gonna give you five choices for smaller trees that you're going to love to have in your yard my first choice is always a Japanese maple it's usually my second and my third choice too because there's such great trees there's thousands of different kinds of Japanese maples out there they're ones that grow 20 feet tall the ones that go 3 feet tall so some grow upright some are weeping some have redly some have orange leaves some have yellow leaves some have green leaves and some are variegated there's a Japanese maple for every kind of garden they grow slowly so they won't outgrow their space you're not going to have to be pruning them a lot you can even grow them in a container if you want leave me the best small tree in my opinion is a Japanese maple my second choice for a great tree for a smaller space is called a no kami flowering cherry it gets to be about 20 feet tall after just a few years if you're one of those people that just can't wait for spring to get here you'll be in luck because this is probably going to be the first tree to bloom in your neighborhood in my neighborhood in central Alabama it's usually in bloom by Valentine's Day it has really really showy deep rose pink blooms and as an added bonus in the fall this leaves turn a bright orange red so you get more bang for your buck my third choice is a small native tree that not many people know about but they really should because it's super easy to grow and it gives you color in the shade it's a native tree called a red Buckeye it's a slow grower it'll eventually get maybe 15 to 20 feet tall what's neat about it well it's one of the first trees leaf out in spring and shortly after that it sends up these spikes of bright red flowers at about 10 inches tall very very showy it's very easy to take care of you can grow it in full Sun or you can grow it in shape mine is growing right in the woods and it blooms great every spring in the south a lot of us grew up with flowering dogwood trees blooming in the spring and you don't see them so often nowadays because people are flying that they're a little bit finicky to grow so if you can't grow a dogwood what's a good small tree that's a great substitute this is one it's a native tree called Carolina Silver bill this tree grows to be about 30 to 35 feet tall and wide it has absolutely no pests simple to grow it'll grow in Sun it'll grow in part shade it's called silver Belle because it produces an abundance of these bell-shaped white flowers that hang down beneath every single branch it's absolutely beautiful and it really belongs in your garden number five a lot of people in the south won't even consider having a fruit tree in the yard because they say oh well it's a lot of work it's hard to grow it always needs to be sprayed the fruit fall on the ground that's all a big mess I don't want to bother with that well those people need to try this tree which is called a Japanese persimmon it's related to our native persimmon which gets to be huge and you know the native persimmon it drops those fruit and if you don't wait long enough in the fall for them to get fully ripe it makes you pucker up it makes you feel like you've been sucking on a tennis ball for an hour okay these are not like that when they ripen they are just sweet from the get-go and they're absolutely delicious so if you go out to buy one of these at the garden center ask him for one that's self pollinating that means it'll produce fruit even if you only get one tree you won't need a second tree and also if you have one it's self pollinating by itself it also won't develop seeds so you can eat the entire fruit it's absolutely beautiful and another thing that I've noticed about these japanese per sentence they're productive you won't believe how much fruit you will get off this tree i had an 8 foot tree last year and i think i got probably 30 to 35 pounds of persimmons off of these things so if you want a fruit tree that's beautiful easy to grow doesn't get too big and gives you delicious fruit that you can be eating for 6 to 8 weeks get a Japanese percenter so when you go to the garden center to pick out a tree remember to ask how big that tree is going to grow and pick one that fits the space you have you're planting a tree you're not planning a farce English (auto-generated) All
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