Pretty small tree suggestions for garden

[Sunshine49]

Hi everyone! I have a lovely photinia "red robin" tree in my garden that sadly seems to be on its last legs - please see image attached! I'm not sure if it's the drought that has got it or something else, but if the worst does come to the worst, I would like to replace it with another tree.

Does anyone have any suggestions for small trees you can buy ready-grown? I'm looking for something the same size as my photinia (so about eight or nine feet) and am hoping to buy something with really pretty blossom or flowers that will hopefully look lovely in the garden.

Any suggestions welcome!

I should add that I'm based in south London so have clay soil.

Thanks!

Photinias are really shrubs. Yours doesn’t look too bad and probably suffering from the drought. If you want to keep it I’d just prune off the worst affected bits and it will grow new shoots.

Cornus kusa is beautiful.

I have an upright Cherry: www.barcham.co.uk/products/prunus-amanogawa (random link for info, not a supplier recommendation)

The annual blossom is lovely, if short lived, but its nice and green rest of the year, and a local robin likes sitting in it a lot!

Amalanchier - small tree, blossoms and then berries. Cornus kousa is beautiful though!

Shotsfired - great work supporting barchams. They're a fab specialist nursery near Roy, supply all Prince Charles' trees and quarantine all their stock for an entire growing season to make sure anything they sell is not carrying a disease into the wider environment. Massive thumbs up from me.

Roy? ELY!

Thanks JT05 - I will give that a go as I really don't want to lose it!

If however it doesn't come back to life, Barcham's look great - thanks for the tip ShotsFired and Frisky!

I was thinking a magnolia tree could be lovely - I've always admired those in other people's gardens!