When the sun goes down, does your garden disappear? If so, you’re missing out. As darkness falls, the garden is the perfect...

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I wanted to include a few conifers, a palm tree or two and even some great ornamental but fruiting trees because many of these...

Top Ten Small Trees For Your Garden

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Bonsai Care

Japanese Maple

Japanese Maple 'Aka Shiigitatsu'

Japanese Maple 'Akegarasu'

Japanese Maple 'Aoyagi'

Japanese Maple 'Ariadne'

Japanese Maple 'Azuma Murasaki'

Purple Japanese Maple

Japanese Maple 'Beni Hagoromo'

Japanese Maple 'Beni Kagami'

Japanese Maple 'Beni-Maiko'

Acer palmatum 'Beni-Maiko'

Acer palmatum 'Beni Schichihenge'

 Japanese Maple 'Beni Shidare'

Japanese maple 'The Bishop'

Japanese Maple 'Bloodgood'

Japanese Maple 'Boskoop Glory'

Japanese maple 'Burgundy Lace'

Japanese Maple 'Butterfly'

Japanese Maple 'Crippsii'

Japanese Maple 'Deshojo'

Acer palmatum (Dissectum Group) 'Atropurpureum'

Japanese Maple 'Fireglow'

Japanese Maple 'Garnet'

Japanese Maple 'Iijima Sunago'

Japanese Maple 'Inaba-shidare'

Acer palmatum 'Kagero'

Japanese Maple 'Kasagiyama'

Japanese Maple 'Kinshi'

Japanese Maple 'Kurabeyama'

Japanese Maple 'Mama'

Acer palmatum 'Masukagami'

Acer palmatum 'Mure Hibari'

 Japanese Maple 'Nicholsonii'

Japanese Maple 'Orange Dream'

Japanese Maple 'Ornatum'

Cut-Leaf Japanese Maple

Japanese Maple 'Osakazuki'

Japanese Aple 'Peaches and Cream'm

Japanese Maple 'Red Pygmy'

Japanese Maple 'Roseo Marginatum'

Japanese Maple 'Seiryu'

Japanese Maple 'Shikageori-nishiki'

Japanese Maple 'Shin-Deshojo'

Japanese Maple 'Shirazz'

Japanese Maple 'Villa Taranto'

Japanese Maple 'Viridis'

Japanese Maple 'Wou Nishiki'

Japanese Maple 'Yasemin'

Acer palmatum (Amoenum Group)

Acer palmatum (Dissectum Group) 'Filigree'

Cut Leaved Japanese Maple

Acer palmatum var. heptalobum

Acer palmatum var. matsumurae

Acer aconitifolium

Snake Bark Maple

Full Moon Maple

Downy Japanese Maple 'Aconitifolium'

Acer japonicum 'Vitifolium'

Golden Shirasawa Maple

Acers

Preferring naturally acid soil these twenty plants will create a tapestry of colour and leaf texture. 

Azalea

Large-Flowered Bellwort

Bilberry

Common Camellia

Californian Lilac

Chinese Dogwood

Creeping Phlox

Japan Daphne

Heather

Lily Turf

Magnolia

Pieris 'Firecrest'

Purple Gromwell 'Heavenly Blue'

Showy Chinese Gentian

Showy Lady's-Slipper Orchid

Skimmia 'Rubella'

Wax Begonia

Witch Alder

Yellow Wax-Bells

Acid Soil Plants - Top 20 

Serviceberries

Judas Tree

Hawthorn

Crab Apple

Prunus

Kilmarnock Willow

Photinia

Sorbus

Alan's Top 10 Small Trees for Your Garden

Banksia

Banyan Fig

Baobab

Benjamin Fig

Botree

Broadpod Robust Thorn

Camel Thorn

Wild Cherry

Chinese Elm

Common Guava

Ficus Ginseng

Desert Rose

Dwarf Umbrella Tree

Fagus sylvatica f. purpurea

Olive Buddleia

Ficus sycomorus

Great Bougainvillea

Herringbone Cotoneaster

Jacaranda

Jade Plant

Juniper

Juniperus

Lagerstroemia indica

Laurel Fig

Monkey Thorn Tree

Mooka

Moumo

Natal Fig

Oldwood

Olive

Paperbark Thorn

Pine

Pinus densiflora

Pinus thunbergii

Pomegranate

Rough-Leaf African Mallow

Scrambling Fig

Sweet Thorn Acacia

Umnumbi

African White Stinkwood

Wild Fig

Wild Olive

red-leaved rock fig

Bonsai Trees

American Witch Hazel

Barberry

Black Ornamental Grass

Chinese Bramble

Chinese Cedar 'Flamingo'

Chinese Plumbago

Chinese Silvergrass

Christmas Rose

Cockspur Thorn

Common Silver Birch

Eastern Redbud

European Larch

Foam Flower 'Emerald Ellie'

Ghost Bramble

Golden Hakonechloa

Red Baron Grass

Knotweed 'Darjeeling Red'

Lenten Rose

Paperbark Maple

Porcelain Vine

Pride Of The Transvaal

Smoke Bush

Spindle 'Blondy'

Spindle 'Bravo'

Spindle 'Emerald 'N' Gold'

Spindle 'Emerald Gaiety'

Spindle 'Silver Queen'

Staghorn Sumach

Stinking Hellebore

Tulip Tree

Witch Hazel 'Jelena'

Colourful Foliage for Autumn and Winter

Brunfelsia

Camellia

Cypress

Chinese Rice-Paper Plant

Cissus

Clustering Fishtail Palm

Cabbage Palm

Cornstalk Dracaena

Cycad

European Fan Palm

False Castor Oil Plant

Gardenia

Hiba

Jelly Palm

Livistona

Murraya

Myrtle

Osmanthus

Parlour Palm

Geranium

Phoenix

Ponytail Palm

Queen Palm

Rose Grape

Rubber Plant

Sacred Bamboo

Schefflera

Container Gardening