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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 most suitable garden trees for our small garden requires a little reading and learning. You should take a fair amount of care when choosing plants for your yard, when it comes to growing garden trees a little more care and attention is required to ensure they will grow well.

Commonly it is best to pick Trees and Shrubs that are not likely to exceed a height of roughly 6m/20ft. If your are planning to plant a tree or shrub near to your home then you should really pick even shorter problems with your home’s foundations. Furthermore the twigs and branches can grow to overshadow windows or doorways. An even worse situation would be if the Trees and Shrubs were to grow such long branches that they could push against walls or overhanging roofs to such a degree that it caused structural damage.

When deciding where, in your small garden, you will be growing your Garden Trees you will have to take special notice of the immediate area taking special note of any overhanging wires or anything else that encroaches upon the space in which your plant will eventually grow, recalling that you should allow for around 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 chosen which Landscaping Trees you are going to plant in your garden you will be required learn a little about Tree Care and especially for the species of tree or shrub you are planting. It is crucially important that, in the case of grafted Landscaping Trees you watch carefully for small branches which may spring from under the graft point as these will be of a different type of tree or shrub (the same species as the rootstock) and, in the case of dwarf trees and shrubs, these will sometimes be much larger and longer than the main plant.

All pruning of your trees and shrubs should be carried out very carefully indeed and you should never, ever, under any circumstances at all, should you ever cut off the very top of a tree in order to keep them short enough for your garden unless you know exactly what you are doing. Lopping off the tops of trees and shrubs can leave them wide open to deadly infection and further damage. You should always, to the letter, follow the correct directions, especially when pruning small trees as they can often be more susceptible infection. All trees and shrubs look at their nicest when their shape appears natural, unless, of course, you are doing a spot of topiary.