These varieties stay small

Selection criteria for the small house tree

Due to its size and shape - the gardener calls this habitus - the house tree determines the overall appearance of your garden. In a small garden, trees should therefore be planted as low as possible with final heights of up to eight to twelve meters. But not only the height plays a decisive role in the selection of the variety, the habit should also Not to be disregarded: For example, a hornbeam is not suitable for small gardens because it is very wide will. Instead, you can plant a narrow columnar hornbeam, which only really comes into its own when there is little space. Globular trees also grow rather weak, remain compact and are particularly suitable for the front yard.

Criteria for choosing the small house tree at a glance:

• existing site and soil conditions
• estimated final size / height
• expected growth width when fully grown
• annual growth increase (slow growing / fast growing
• Growth habit (narrow, spreading, rounded, broadly bushy ...)
• Special features (flowers, fruits, leaf color and shape, evergreen…)

The most beautiful varieties for the home garden

Even a small house tree should not be squeezed between the house, hedge or boundary wall and other plantings. Clear that Piece of jewelry enough space so that it can develop its full potential. Most trees stand best as solitaires or as the radiant center of a border planting.

Ornamental and wild fruit trees

Most Wild and ornamental fruit trees remain comparatively small and offer numerous advantages:

• The trees show lush white or pink flowers in spring
• Solitary trees provide shade in summer, and many are bird protection trees.
• Red-leaved varieties also score points with their variety of colors in summer.
• In autumn, a splendid color of leaves sets the scene for the tree.
• In addition, apples, small cherries or plums ripen.
• These are often edible, but also feed birds and other wild animals.

Columnar trees

Columnar trees are of very great slim figure and take up little space, even if some varieties can get quite tall. There are both coniferous and deciduous trees in columnar form, and even some fruit trees have already been grown for a particularly narrow growth. These are not trees that have been trimmed to size, but rather special varieties. These retain their characteristic growth shape even without pruning.

Spherical trees

at Spherical trees it is often a matter of so-called head refinements, the trunk of which only grows very slowly or not at all. The spherical crown also remains compact in old age, so that the tree only casts little shade and can therefore be well planted under. Many spherical trees do not grow taller than three to four meters.

Umbrella-shaped trees

Need significantly more space umbrella-shaped treesthat develop a broadly spreading crown and therefore come into their own on larger green areas. They are ideal to provide shade in summer or to set up the house bench underneath.

Overhanging trees

Well-known trees with overhanging branches are the weeping willow, weeping birch or the arbor elm. These become very large and therefore need a lot of space in the garden. However, there are too Hanging treesthat stay significantly smaller and therefore also fit well in the small garden or even in a pot. A nice example of this is the hanging wild pear 'Pendula' (Pyrus salicifolia), which is no more than six meters high and up to four meters wide.