How many trees.......

We've got:

a sycamore
white flowering cherry
Twisted witch hazel
A couple of rowans
An unidentified small evergreen
An unidentified large evergreen
Beech hedge
Leylandii that predates us.
Elderflower.

I'm surrounded by woodland, though, living in rural Scotland.

If you're interested in trees, then this book, The Hidden Life of Trees will fascinate you. I feel quite sorry for garden specimens now.

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Good advice NFKDumpling. I like rowan for small gardens as they feed birds on berries and bees on blossom. They don't have invasive roots. They keep witches away.

We have forty poplar trees which form the boundary of our field.
Twenty Thuja plicata conifers forming a screen between us and a railway line.
Four Scots pines at the front of the house which act as a windbreak.
Five apple trees.
One greengage, two plum and two pear trees.
One Mirabelle and one ornamental cherry.
One Gleditsia triacanthos 'Sunburst'
One Ash (no dieback!)
One silver birch
Two Lime trees
One Liriodendron (Tulip Tree)
One Holme Oak
One Abelia grandiflora
One Corylus avellana 'contorta'
Two Lime green conifers
Various elders which self seed and grow like mad if we don't yank them out
Six silver birch saplings planted in October.

It's a wildlife haven but a little too wild at the moment due to DH being ill for three months but hopefully we'll be 'on it' when he's better.

I've now counted ours and have been surprised as just how many we've squeezed into an average town garden.
2 rowan
1 silver birch
1 fig
1 tamarisk
1 yew
1 apple
1 plum
3 lilac
1 maple
4 acer
1 cotinus (smoke tree)
4 acer
also two conifers grown to about 20 ft, a sambucus nigra and philadelphus which are not much shorter. At the moment we have a witch hazel in a pot but should be planted out soon if we can find a space! Recently lost a laburnum and a schumack.

6 conifers and weeds.
FRONT AND BACK.
The other half can kill artificial plants.

We have a very large garden, so in the bit closest to the house, we have 2 oak trees and a lime tree, 1 apple tree and a dwarf conifer.

Through the gate to a line of conifers , 2 walnut trees, horse chestnut trees, conifers on all 3 sides, Ash and Silver Birch, weeping willows, 2 more apple trees, and a pear tree. Lots of bushes too. At the front to the right we have a row of conifer between us and next door and conifer at the front.

We live rurally, if you couldn't guess

We share the leaf clearing between us. It's a 24/7 job!

Small house and garden:
1 Rowan (yellow berries)
1 Ornamental malus
1 Red maple
1 small weeping maple
Lots of shrubs including Cornus Mas which is bigger than some trees.
Overshadowed by enormous birch the other side of the stream as well as a number of conifers and a beautiful oak.

I forgot they lilac tree at our gate! And there's another young tree that DH put in a container, I don't know what it is, I think it's a maple of some description.

I’ve just been out clearing leaves. And had another count up - if I include the magnolias and Garia Eliptica and a palm which looks nice but is neither use to man nor beast and the ornamental cherry we put in behind the shed we’ve 20 trees in the back garden! Several are not very long lived but fast growing and several are quite small and will outlive the others as they get bigger so it’s not going to turn into a forest. Although our neighbours have planted even more than us so we will have a sizeable wood!

And of course we have a Rowan by the front gate to keep the bad witches away. Good witches welcome.

From memory about 12 trees all but 2 planted by me. I won't plant any more unless the ones I have die off.

None, I don`t have a garden, just a back yard.

It seems we’re doing our bit in the tree growing stakes Gransnetters. ?

I didn’t count shrubs and hedges, although of course they’re all doing their bit for the environment too - and I forgot to mention the lovely acer in my front garden that puts on a splendid show at this time of the year.

I've been looking at making a gift of a tree to be planted in woodland for some friends celebrating their anniversary. I know they are decluttering and don't want more 'stuff'. Has anyone done this and was it well received?

I changed from google to ecosia for my preferred search engine because ecosia plants trees in exchange for activity there.

2 sycamores
1 wych elm
1 ash
1 Scots pine (and one baby one in a pot)
1 holly
3 wild cherries
2 apples
2 crabapples
1 lilac (does that count?)
and about a dozen very big conifers about twice the height of the house!

I've probably missed something out but, as it's wet and dark outside, I'm not going out to count!

Keeping self-seeded sycamores and ash trees under control is a constant challenge.

We left a Judas tree, an Irish Yew, a Victoria plum and a bay in our small town garden. Here we have a huge walnut, an apple ( dying, coming out), elder (coming out) and privet (coming out!). I am looking forward to choosing new trees. We have a crab apple, Judas and eucalyptus in pots ready to go in.

Forgot to mention about a dozen walnut trees planted by the squirrel!

timetogo2016, your 'weeds' are also important native wildflowers, essential for the wildlife!

mamacaz yes I was wondering about shrubs helping the environment too. I can't think why not.

Me neither, LullyDully

It actually seems rather short-sighted that advice generally seems to concentrate solely on the need to plant 'trees'.
I am sure that much more thought for the environmentwould be put into the planting of smaller gardens and outside spaces if that advice was changed to 'trees and bushes', or something like that.

As it stands, most people hear 'trees', think 'I don't have room for those', then, understandably, dismiss the whole subject from their minds.

Yes, you are right. A logical argument should include bushes and shrubs. No room for a horse chestnut , much as I would like it.

Oh I love horse chestnut trees such happy memory of my chum's swing underneath hers

I would like a walnut tree - I do keep looking at the bottom of our long but narrow back garden, wondering whether to go for it.
Eventually it would overhang the gardens either side, not to mention obscure both our and the neighbours' views of the lovely fields beyond, so I think it might be less selfish of me to stick with the smaller things that are currently growing there, which include a young apple tree. I might plant another of those down there instead. Or a laburnum - I love laburnum!