Tree for small garden

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We lost our beautiful tree in the storm this weekend. As well as being utterly gorgeous it also provided screening and shade (although perhaps a bit too much shade). We need to replace it, but with what? It's a small London garden, west facing. I'd like lots of flowers, would perhaps prefer evergreen - otherwise I guess I'd go for a cherry. Thanks!

If it's definitely a tree you want, how about a strawberry tree or an amelanchier? They are not evergreen though.

I've got a beautiful ceanothus in my garden, lots better than a proper tree- you can train it and trim it, I got one that is fully evergreen and it is smothered

Amelanchier - good leaf colour in spring and autumn, copious flowers, inconspicuous berries loved by blackbirds. Sorbus - flowers, berries (pink, orange, yellow or white) and autumn leaf colour. Crab apple - flowers and berries. I think all of these are interesting for more of the year than cherries. None are evergreen, though.

Thank you, these are great recommendations. The one we've lost was a stunning ceanothus, but thinking of something new.

A pear tree would be nice. I have a Comice or similar pear. Lovely leaves and on a dwarfing rootstock so won't grow too large. Not every green but not far off it.

I have a winter-flowering cherry. It has very pale pink blossom and is in flower now. It looks great under-planted with snowdrops and narcissi.
Blue tits love the buds too.

How about a crab apple - not evergreen but the red big berries (size of cherries) stay on almost all years round.

Ooh yes, a crab- with "apples in either orange or red or yellow, depending on cultivar. I have one and I make jelly with them.

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/18936/Viburnum-rhytidophyllum/Details

It’s a large shrub but can be pruned to size. It’s evergreen too.