Category Archives: Small Trees

Cool Your Home – Choosing Trees for Shade

shade trees

Cool Your Home with Trees Is your street hot? Are you living in an area that is suffering from the Urban Heat Island Effect and craving some shade? Don’t just put up a patio or shade sails, plant more trees!  The best trees for shade to cool down your home are those massive trees planted […]

Best Screening Plants for Privacy

red Cottonwood Hibiscus - good screening plant

Help! We need some very quick growing trees to plant around our fenceline for privacy –  We’ve just moved into our new home and everything is bare – our neighbours are constantly watching us from over the fence?  What do you suggest?? This is one of our most common requests – You are looking for […]

Small to Medium Shade Trees For Your Garden

Trees form the framework of your garden. They are so valuable for creating shade, especially in newly built suburbs, where lack of planning at the development stage has left little in the way of street trees. Time to get planting to get some shade at your place.   Here’s some suggestions for small to medium […]

Deciduous Trees for Smaller Urban Gardens

Prunus nigra Flowering Plum in the Garden

Trees for Small Gardens There’s something special about Deciduous Trees. They tend to give a soft, romantic feel to any garden and many are relatively quick to grow. There is a real sense of seasonal definition as you observe their natural cycles –  bringing fabulous colours and textures in Autumn before shedding leaves by Winter, […]

Evergreen Trees for Smaller Urban Gardens

Hymenosporum flavum Native Frangipani folige

So you’re searching for trees for that will provide shade and green up your small plot of land – you want evergreen foliage all year round, and a tree that keeps the same form and shape every year and season,  not deciduous – you’re not interested in cleaning up the leaf mess in Autumn and you […]