Ideas for a tree

[Laurasanford111]

Hello

We have a fairly narrow garden but enough for a decent size tree, I'm looking at an amelanchier. I wanted something evergreen but that limits my choices so as long as it still has structure to it through winter that will give us privacy to.. that's what we're after, we are very overlooked. I love birches but they get to tall..

So yeah any ideas? It will also be kind of near a greenhouse about 5 foot from it so I need to bear that in mind

Thank you

How about a Mimosa?

Small evergreen tree ideas:

Olive (needs sun)
Strawberry tree
Palm varieties

Some evergreen bushes which can be pruned into tree shape, ie lollipop or pleached

Magnolia grandiflora (can get large)
Photinia red robin
Viburnum
Holly (small leaved varieties not the classic spiky one)

Mimosas are lovely

We have a Red Robin tree, very attractive.
Trunk is 6ft with the foliage above this.
Can be shaped.

I have a mahonia, and it's evergreen, plus it's in bloom with lovely yellow flowers atm, and it also has berries. I also have a stranvaesia that I love.

Amelanchiers are lovely although they are quite early to drop their leaves in autumn.

It’s hard to go wrong with a crabapple!

Himalayan birches aren’t massive, what would the max height be?

Olive is a good shout if soil is well drained - they grow surprisingly fast, hardy, evergreen, and very elegant.

What about a plum or apple tree?

An evergreen Californian lilac tree?

A winter flowering cherry provides year round interest, tree creepers love them and they are available on smaller root stock.

Or perhaps an apricot. Again available on small root stock, and in the right environment, will provide you with fruit.

I have damsons and apple trees. Both would work. And a rowan tree that provides colourful berries which attract blackbirds every year.

You don't say what sort of soil you have. Amalanchiers aren't keen on chalk/alkali soils

Part of my hedge is a strawberry tree. I'm a bit useless but so far it seems to have thrived being pruned every year into the shape I want. It has the bonus, as well as being evergreen, that it has lovely little white flowers and bright red strawberry type fruits that is see various birds have taken little nibbles from.
Beside it I have an Amelanchier. No it's not evergreen but this year it held onto its bright orange leaves for quite some time. It's also has an early blossom which I'm looking forward to.

i've got for a standard bay tree to get privacy in a small London garden. It can be cut back hard to keep it in shape, and I get the bonus of bay leaves.

There’s many species of birch, including Betula nana which doesn’t get above 1m and is usually less. Himalayan birch Betula utilis x jaquemontii gets tall eventually, but takes longer to do it than the usual Betula utilis. It also has stunning white bark.

Gleditsia Sunburst, lovely dappled shade nice horizontal canopy. Or a crab apple.

I have a cotoneaster. Technically a big shrub but I've pruned it into a tree shape by stripping the side shoots from the central stem.

It has blossom in spring, berries in autumn and is semi-evergreen, ours is in quite a sheltered spot and has kept most of it's leaves this winter.