Nearly all garden designs have some types of trees or tall shrubberies mixed in, because using varying heights is important when putting together a well rounded garden or landscape design. Unfortunately, when you are working with a small amount of space, you are a little more limited when it comes to space for these larger plants, meaning that extra creativity is needed in order for you to achieve your objectives. Trees and shrubs can grow to form a variety of different types of mixed hedging, creating unique landscape designs, wind breaks and even privacy screens. Just because your garden space is small, you should not leave out the trees, shrubs and hedges.

When it comes to designing gardens intended for smaller spaces, the choices available for trees will diminish as your amount of available space is reduced. While a small space may be capable of supporting a larger tree species, everything may seem distorted or out of place if you do not plan everything perfectly. One of the most important things that you need to remember is that small trees that you purchase from a local nursery may look great now, but eventually they are going to grow into their spaces, becoming far too large and cumbersome and possibly even causing damage in the process. There are a variety of different ways that a too-large tree can cause damage to your living space, including that overbearing roots can damage foundations, basements, walls, roofs, sidewalks and even plumbing and electrical.

If you have a small yard or a small garden area that you want to grow trees and shrubs in, then you really need to pay particular attention to your surroundings. You need to take careful note of overhead wires, overhead cables, overhanging roofs and any other possible thing that a tree could possibly disturb when growing taller with time. You also want to make sure that you know about the growth patterns of a tree before you buy it so that there are no surprises in five to ten years when the tree is overgrowing in comparison to every other element within the garden or landscaping space.

When planting trees in small garden spaces, consider the following choices:

- * The Serbian spruce is a tree that grows narrow and upright, not taking up too much horizontal space.

- * The Coral bark dogwood and the Coral bark maple are two tees that have truly marvelous and decorative types of bark.

- * The Flowering crab apple, the Japanese Maple and the Dwarf Korean Lilac tree are also all excellent choices. The Dwarf Korean Lilac tree specifically offers beautiful blooms with gorgeous fragrances.

All of these trees would be good choices for a small garden space because they are not overgrowing trees, their roots will not harm your ground and they will not take up too much space in your garden.

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Originally posted 2009-06-25 16:27:13. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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When you first saw how much space you had in your back yard you were probably really excited by the prospect of all of the plants that you could install there. But you need to consider the kind of soil that you have, the kind of light that you have, the kind of space that you have and other important details before you buy your plants, otherwise you may end up with plants that are not compatible, and this is not going to benefit anybody at all. You need to think things over before you act, end of story.

Before you buy your plants you are going to want to be attentive to where you want to place those plants in your garden. Some plants are shade loving plants and that means that they are going to want to be placed in sheltered areas. On the other end of the spectrum you are going to have plants that are sun lovers, and they are going to want the warm spots in your garden. You are also going to have drought resistant plants and they are going to want the parched areas of your garden where you may have trouble getting water too, and on the other end of the spectrum you are going to have swampy plants that enjoy it really wet, and you are going to want to install those plants in the areas of your garden that do not drain well.

Knowing what to plant is vitally important. Are you wanting to plant fruits and vegetables or flowers and shrubs? Make sure that you are starting small, because you can always add to your garden later as you want to, just make sure that you are doing it gradually. This is going to be particularly important if you are dealing with a garden budget of course.

You are going to want to test out the pH level of your soil so that you can add the right types of nutrients to your soil before you do any planting. You are going to be able to alter the pH of your soil if you need to, but it is significantly easier for you to do this now than if you were to do it after you planted your garden, so consider that before you do anything else.

Another good rule of thumb that you should consider is that you should plant in groups. Having a lot of varieties of plants is nice, but the one-of-everything type of garden is not typically one that thrives. Buy a couple of each plant and plant them in groups so that they can sort of thrive together for the best possible results.

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Originally posted 2009-09-28 03:36:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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