How many trees.......

I just have a small garden, so I don’t have too many trees in it. As of now, I got one Tibetan Cherry (which is my favourite btw), one White Willow, and one Rowan, which I all bought from this nursery of ornamental garden trees. Wish I have more space to add some more ornamental trees, but I’m still happy with my garden right now.

And I forgot the hedge of unidentified nature, between the drying green and the yard, the privet hedge in the front along our neighbour's boundary, an enormous laurel. (all right, it's a bush) and about a dozen holly bushes that all intend to grow up into trees.

Oh, and our laburnum, which I didn't remember until I read MamaCaz post.

I have two old apple trees and old pear tree, a rowan and four pine trees, plus a buckthorn, and an elderberry that have both grown into trees.

All are probably as old as the house, which was built in 1927.

Last year I planted a plum tree and a pear tree, and the year before I moved a rowan sapling, which is doing well.

We moved in at the New Year 2016 and I intend to plant more fruit trees.

We also have a shrubbery of lilacs and other flowering bushes, thorn hedges around the back garden and a copse outside the back of the garden , which mainly consists of sycamores, hawthorn and damsons.

We pruned our mature walnut last year Caz and it didn’t seem to mind to much. Its a medium sized tree but still twice as tall as the average apple. Also, apparently, the leaves are not good for compost. They certainly don’t rot down well so we put them in our brown wheelie bin for the big council compost heap.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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!

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

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.