Small Backyards and Choosing Garden Trees | Gardening

By MartinReid
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Landscaping Trees have always been incredibly popular for use in larger gardens where they can grow to maturity looking absolutely wonderful. When we take a look at our own residential gardens they are, more often than not, small places and our choice of landscaping trees and shrubs is therefore somewhat limited.

Choosing the best landscaping trees for small backyards requires us to do little studying. You should take a considerable degree of care when choosing any type of plant for your garden. However, when it comes to choosing landscaping trees you should take even more care to ensure you make the correct decision.

Generally it is best to pick garden trees that are not likely to grow beyond a height of around 20ft (6m) in height. If your are planning to place a tree or shrub near to your home then you should really pick even shorter problems with your house's foundations. Furthermore the branches and twigs can grow to block windows or doorways. An even more horrible scenario would be if the Garden Trees were to grow such long branches that they could push against walls or overhanging roofs to such an amount that it caused structural damage.

When deciding where, in your small garden, you will be planting your Landscaping Trees you will have to take special notice of the immediate area taking special note of any overhanging cables or anything else that encroaches upon the space in which your plant will eventually grow, recalling that you should plan for about 6m (20ft) in height.

A further point to keep in mind is your neighbor. If you will be planting Trees and Shrubs along a garden fence you will need to think of the fact that it is more than likely that the branches will overhang into his/her space. Not only should you consider the branches you need to consider the roots of the plant which will, most likely grow much further and could possibly create damage.

Trees and Shrubs grown in Small Spaces can often become a nuisance for a neighbor when the Trees and Shrubs grow too big and block out the sun from his or her garden or window. This type of problem often leads to legal action between neighbors and many places have bye-laws which disallow the growing of certain types of tree. It is well worth checking first before you plant any Trees and Shrubs.

Once you have picked which Garden Trees you are going to grow in your garden you will be required learn a little about Tree and Shrub Care and especially for the species of tree or shrub you are growing. It is immensely important that, in the case of grafted Garden Trees you watch closely for shoots which may spring from below the graft point as these will be of a different type of tree or shrub (the same species as the rootstock) and, with dwarfed varieties of shrubs and trees, these spurs are likely to grow much larger,longer and stronger than the main, dwarfed, plant.

Pruning your Landscaping Trees should be done very carefully and you should never, under any conditions should you lop off the top of a tree just to keep them small. Lopping off the tops of Landscaping Trees can lead to fatal damage. You should always follow the correct directions when pruning small trees as they can often be more open infection. All Landscaping Trees look best when their shape is natural, unless you are doing topiary.

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If you are planning to do a little gardening then you may wish to read about planting trees in small yards

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