Favourite Plants
In smaller gardens, the selection of trees, shrubs and perennials is critical. They all have to work extra hard in all four seasons. Interesting form, colourful leaves and stems (even without flowers), unique bark, flowers and fragrance—the more of these you can pack into each cultivar, the more stunning and unique your garden will be.
Trees for Small Gardens
Hollywood Juniper.jpg
Kousa Dogwood - CREDIT Liz West.jpg
Purple Sand Cherry Standard.jpg
Weeping Nootka.jpg
Crabapple 'Red Jewel'
Paperbark Maple - Acer Griseum.jpg
Sycamore - mature tree bark.jpg
Japanese Maple.jpg
Blue Spruce.jpg
Weeping Norway Spruce.JPG
Weeping Purple Beech 1033W800.jpg
Corkscrew hazel - photo Ruth Hartnup.jpg
Maidenhair tree - Ginko biloba- photo Garden Muses.JPG
Atlas Cedar 'Weeping Blue'.JPG
Japanese Maple with Hostas 1037W1200.jpg
Russian Olive.jpg
Witch Hazel.jpg
Blue Point Juniper.JPG
Flowering Trees for Small Gardens
Magnolia.jpg
Kousa-dogwood- Liz West.jpg
Dwarf Korean Lilac Standard - Syringa Meyeri Standard.jpg 2015-4-16-19:50:24
Crabapple 'Red Jewel'.JPG
Red Jewel Crabapple in Flower.JPG
Red Jewel Crabapple.JPG
Shrubs for Small Gardens
Mugo Pine.jpg
Golden Elder - Sambucus nigra 'Aurea'.JPG
Dogwood - Ivory Halo.jpg
Dogwood - Cornus Alba - Winter.JPG
Whipcord cedar - Thuja 'Whipcord'.JPG
Dogwood 'Midwinter Fire'.jpg
Perennials that Really Perform
Hosta 'Sum and Substance'.jpg
Bearded Iris - Purple.JPG
Japanese Painted Fern.JPG
Heuchera 'Palace Purple'.jpg
Bearded Iris - Peach.JPG
Japanese Fountain Grass - Hakonechloa macra Auerola.jpg
Clematis 'Comtesse de Bouchaud'.jpg
Hosta 'Pauls Glory'.jpg
Purple Fountain Grass 'Fireworks'.jpg
Heuchera 'Lime Marmelade'.jpg
Clematis 'Rhapsody".jpg
Peony 'Sarah Bernhardt'.jpg
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