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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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