Small trees

[AlyssumandHelianthus]

I'm about to move to a bigger garden!!
It's currently a rectangle of grass with a bed at the back and three lollipop red robins randomly against one fence.
So I'm daydreaming about trees. Any ideas? I think there's room for maybe 4, but definitely 2 small/medium trees.
I'm thinking maple, rowen for the birds, maybe an espaliered fruit tree??

i decided I wanted trees for wildlife and blossom and autumn colour. Mine is a fairly small garden so things have to multitask.

sorbus Joseph rock, lovely yellow berries and great autumn colour
eating cherry tree and small patio one for cross pollination
standard mojo no mai flowering cherry, again has berries for the birds
medium sized flowering cherry..accolade
prunus snow goose
amelanchier …well behabed small tree
cornus China girl

silver birch in a very large pot for winter stems

cornus contra versa variegate ….lovely tre
acers in pots

Prunus serrula - flowering cherry grown for its polished mahogany bark
Prunus subhirtella “autumnalis” - winter flowering cherry

Also

purple leaved Malus for flower and leafcolour

if planting for birds, stick with orange berried rowans, they dont seem to recognise pink or white berries.

choose your maple carefully, some grow huge

@BarrelOfOtters that's interesting about putting some in pots. Are they ok in there? My pots usually die in the summer when I go on holiday for the two non rainy weeks! Any good tips?

In the ground I have;
Magnolia Grandiflora
The prunus subhirtella that @MereDintofPandiculation suggested.

In large pots I have;
Acer beni maiko
Betula ermanii
Another smaller birch
Olive tree

You need to pick and choose with your maples as @MereDintofPandiculation says, some of them turn into whoppers. Japanese maples (acer palmatum) should be fine though.

Ideas by other pp's sound good, I'd also suggest a red hawthorn - 'Paul's Scarlet' is a nice one.

@AlyssumandHelianthus the secret is bigger pots. You can’t put them in huge pots straight away you pot them up over a few years then they end up in the biggest pots you can afford and fit in your garden.

my biggest pot is 3 foot across. The acers tend to be in ones that are 30 to 50 cm. They don’t need watered as much. I group them somewhere in the shade when I go away ( the ones I can move). Refresh the compost every so often and use osmocote tablets. Also use John innes compost rather that plain multipurpose…or a mix.

I’ve had trees in pots for 20 years.

Following! We have a small garden and anything in it needs to earn it's space, so I am thinking about compact fruit trees.

June berry (Amelanchia).
It has beautiful early blossom, delicious berries (that birds love too) and good autumn colour. Its branches cast dappled shade.
I pressed some mistletoe berries into a little nick I made in the branches and now have mistletoe growing in mine.

Also crab apples. Leave the fallen crab apples to go soft and the birds will eat them.
Spectacular blossom, good autumn colour on leaves plus the amazing crab apples last all winter. I like red sentinel and golden hornet.

I'd plant fruit trees, chosen from a specialist grower - eg Chris Bower - as the range is vast compared to garden centre offerings. Something you and wildlife can enjoy. The blossom in spring is beautiful.

I've just bought a toffee apple tree - apparently it will go the colour of toffee apples and smell like candyfloss in the autumn. So excited