@TheGreenMan .You may have already made a choice. Amelanchiers especially the smaller ones are often awkward shapes If you can find one with evenly spaced stems coming up from the base you will be able to get a good three stemmed shape by pruning.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I have a Catalpa (indian bean ) it is NOT small. I have several silver birch, one multi-stemmed, they are not samll either but are cheap and easily chopped down and replaced.
Apple sounds good, and productive too. Try to get one that is not on a dwarfing rootstock.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
@TheGreenMan I paid just £25.00 for mine it didn't look brilliant at first but I could see there was enough to shape it. eighteen months later it is 5ft and a great shape. They can be expensive so a great way to start. Hope you have enjoyed your visit.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I like amelanchier and euonymus which have been mentioned already so will just throw out one of the dwarf magnolias for another possibility. They tend to look nice in a lawn but do more for us than wildlife.
Yes - a Magnolia stellata would be particularly nice @thevictorian Likewise - the E. alatus. Both lovely as specimen trees. I've just been admiring the magnolias in lots of gardens as they've just started flowering recently.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have a C. bignonioides aurea which is just 8 foot tall after 8 years. When pollarded, it will be 2 foot tall. This is how they are managed in small gardens to get small trees with big exotic looking leaves!
This is my multi stemmed Prunus serrula, I planted it about 5 years ago and it's probably about 12ft tall now. The peeling bark and the lovely deep red of the stems make it interesting all year.
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Apple sounds good, and productive too. Try to get one that is not on a dwarfing rootstock.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I’m at the GC now and I’m going to give it some more thought.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Likewise - the E. alatus.
Both lovely as specimen trees. I've just been admiring the magnolias in lots of gardens as they've just started flowering recently.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have a C. bignonioides aurea which is just 8 foot tall after 8 years. When pollarded, it will be 2 foot tall. This is how they are managed in small gardens to get small trees with big exotic looking leaves!