If you have little awareness of trees and only have one or two hours to spend pottering around your garden and the thought of engaging the services an expert on a regular basis is not acceptable to your bank balance then you might want to put a little bit of thought into which kind of tree would be suited for providing you ease of growth and low upkeep before buying. Here are low maintenance trees, evergreen or deciduous and with or without fruit that could be ideal for your garden or patio.
Snow Gum
A small upright evergreen with elliptic leaves which will become more tapered as the tree moves into its mature stages. It can reach 4 - 8 metres in height which will take it somewhere between 20 - 50 years to reach and offers a white flower when in bloom together with foliage which is green and silver/gray.
Chinese Privet
Snow Gum
A small upright evergreen with elliptic leaves which will become more tapered as the tree moves into its mature stages. It can reach 4 - 8 metres in height which will take it somewhere between 20 - 50 years to reach and offers a white flower when in bloom together with foliage which is green and silver/gray.
Chinese Privet
An evergreen tree which is tiny and bushy. It has broad elliptical leaves which can attain a length of 15cm. It can reach 8 -12 metres in height in a time span of 20 to 50 years and provides an off white flower when in bloom together with a tiny black berry fruit.
Cherry 'Kiku-shidare-zakura '
A small weeping tree which is deciduous and whose branches arch from its trunk. It can reach 2 - 4 metres ihigh over a period of 20 to 50 years and offers flowers in later spring which are a rich pink colored. During the spring its foliage is both green and bronze however; by summer will be entirely green.
Coral Bark Maple
This is a little deciduous tree. It'll grow up to 6 metres high in a timeframe of 10 to 20 years. It bears leaves on coral red branches in its younger years which are a yellow and pink color. In the summer they're going to turn green and revert to yellow in the autumn. It offers tiny reddish flowers when in bloom.
Sycamore 'Brilliantissimum '
This is a small deciduous tree with a rounded crown. It can reach 4 to 8 metres in height and the same in width. Its leaves will initially open pink in colour then change to combine yellow with green before eventually changing into a more distinctive dark green with cream mottling. It will flower in the autumn however; they are infrequently produced in abundance.
Some trees form a framework that's well-branched naturally and as such require minimal pruning. In reality hard pruning could essentially lead them to spoil. The trees listed above all fall into this category and dependent on which tree only require a light pruning either in the spring or late winter.
While all of these trees can be purchased at a tender age from your garden centre it can be pleasurable and inexpensive to try growing trees from seed or cuttings which can on occasion be attempted with all those above. However; patience is required as it can take many years to produce a tree.
Cherry 'Kiku-shidare-zakura '
A small weeping tree which is deciduous and whose branches arch from its trunk. It can reach 2 - 4 metres ihigh over a period of 20 to 50 years and offers flowers in later spring which are a rich pink colored. During the spring its foliage is both green and bronze however; by summer will be entirely green.
Coral Bark Maple
This is a little deciduous tree. It'll grow up to 6 metres high in a timeframe of 10 to 20 years. It bears leaves on coral red branches in its younger years which are a yellow and pink color. In the summer they're going to turn green and revert to yellow in the autumn. It offers tiny reddish flowers when in bloom.
Sycamore 'Brilliantissimum '
This is a small deciduous tree with a rounded crown. It can reach 4 to 8 metres in height and the same in width. Its leaves will initially open pink in colour then change to combine yellow with green before eventually changing into a more distinctive dark green with cream mottling. It will flower in the autumn however; they are infrequently produced in abundance.
Some trees form a framework that's well-branched naturally and as such require minimal pruning. In reality hard pruning could essentially lead them to spoil. The trees listed above all fall into this category and dependent on which tree only require a light pruning either in the spring or late winter.
While all of these trees can be purchased at a tender age from your garden centre it can be pleasurable and inexpensive to try growing trees from seed or cuttings which can on occasion be attempted with all those above. However; patience is required as it can take many years to produce a tree.
Sycamore 'Brilliantissimum '
This is a small deciduous tree with a rounded crown. It can reach 4 to 8 metres in height and the same in width. Its leaves will initially open pink in colour then change to combine yellow with green before eventually changing into a more distinctive dark green with cream mottling. It will flower in the autumn however; they are infrequently produced in abundance.
Some trees form a framework that's well-branched naturally and as such require minimal pruning. In reality hard pruning could essentially lead them to spoil. The trees listed above all fall into this category and dependent on which tree only require a light pruning either in the spring or late winter.
While all of these trees can be purchased at a tender age from your garden centre it can be pleasurable and inexpensive to try growing trees from seed or cuttings which can on occasion be attempted with all those above. However; patience is required as it can take many years to produce a tree.
You can find information of different types trees on sites like Wikipedia. They have a complete section dedicated to Trees of Britain and Ireland.
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This is a small deciduous tree with a rounded crown. It can reach 4 to 8 metres in height and the same in width. Its leaves will initially open pink in colour then change to combine yellow with green before eventually changing into a more distinctive dark green with cream mottling. It will flower in the autumn however; they are infrequently produced in abundance.
Some trees form a framework that's well-branched naturally and as such require minimal pruning. In reality hard pruning could essentially lead them to spoil. The trees listed above all fall into this category and dependent on which tree only require a light pruning either in the spring or late winter.
While all of these trees can be purchased at a tender age from your garden centre it can be pleasurable and inexpensive to try growing trees from seed or cuttings which can on occasion be attempted with all those above. However; patience is required as it can take many years to produce a tree.
You can find information of different types trees on sites like Wikipedia. They have a complete section dedicated to Trees of Britain and Ireland.
About the Author:
John Alst has a number of years of tree surgery knowledge gained through working for a tree surgeon.