Discover beautiful small trees perfect for tight spaces, offering shade, privacy, and year-round visual interest.

Whether your patio is next to your house or a little farther away, planting a tree can be an easy way to provide shade. “If the weather is hot, it can be 20 degrees cooler in the shade than ...

If you don't buy into the dwarf willow being a tree, ... Lollipop crabapple: These trees grow to 10 feet to 15 feet and produce bushy, ... Slash Pine Tree, A Southern Yellow Pine.

If you own or rent a small patch of sun, you can grow apples. So-called dwarf fruit trees, a.k.a. patio apples, are gateway plants for budding urban permaculturists. One of the first things I did ...

Not all trees need to be large in order to make a statement. Small trees – which are officially known as “dwarf trees” in garden parlance and don’t grow above 30 feet– can liven up a ...

We like Hawthorn, serviceberry, white fringetree, crabapple, tree lilac, ornamental cherry and ornamental pear. All these trees are easier to grow than dogwood.

Manchurian Crabapple (Malus mandshurica) is a common pollinator. The smallest apple trees (dwarf trees) should be 20′ from a different cultivar. Semi dwarf trees can be up to 50 feet away.

The trees grow only to a height of about 7 feet tall with an 8-foot spread. The dwarf crabapple, specifically,was created to be exceptionally hardy and resistant to various diseases.

The flower of a crabapple tree is bathed in sunlight April 22, 2025 in Iowa City, Iowa. ... Iris lacustris, also known as the dwarf lake iris was designated as the state flower in 1998, ...

"Southern crabapple,” Malus angustifolia, our Mystery Plant this week, bears one of the most beautiful flowers of the spring, and of course, it comes from a tree.It’s a small tree, usually no ...

Detroit's Eastern Market hosted its annual Flower Day, drawing large crowds of shoppers. In addition to flowers, vendors sold a variety of goods, including jewelry, clothing, and food.