Why plant a tree in your garden?
Trees:
• Beautify our surroundings
• Purify our air
• Act as sound barriers
• Manufacture oxygen. They make it easier to breathe.
• Help us save energy by reducing the need for cooling and heating.
• Increase home property values
• Provide habitat
• Reduce stress. They make us feel happy and connected with nature.

Top Choices for Your Garden

Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'
Landscape value: A superb small tree that is an excellent choice for a landscape where a colourful, elegant, purple-leafed tree is required. This tree is easily adapted as a multi-stemmed or central leader tree depending on requirements. A consistent performer, ideal for small areas.
Size:  5 metres x 5 metres
Foliage: Large heart-shaped leaves open up in spring to a brilliant eye-catching shade of reddish-purple with a velvety-satin appearance, deepening to purplish-black then fading to purplish-green in summer. Generally exhibits brilliant yellow to orange autumn colours.
Flowers: Masses of small, pink, 'pea'-like flowers borne in groups along the branches before the leaves appear in spring.
Comments: Prefers a moist, deep, well drained fertile soil. Best foliage colour in full sun, but avoid hot, exposed and windy sites.
 
Lagerstroemia 'Sioux'  (Crepe Myrtle)
Landscape value:  A showy, narrow-growing small tree with masses of intense pink flowers in summer, highly ornamental bark and very good autumn colour. Lagerstroemia ‘Sioux’ is an adaptable and disease resistant plant suitable for a range of situations.
Height: 4 metres x 3 metres
Foliage: Dark green, thick to 8 cm long. Good, strong autumn colour of coppery-brown to bright red.
Flowers: Medium to hot pink flowers are borne in large panicles on the ends of current season’s growth.
Bark: Dark olive green on mature trees, exfoliating (after about three years) revealing a smooth, pinkish-caramel underbark. Young trees light brown.
Comments: Best in moist, well drained, slightly acidic soils in a position receiving full sun. Bred for resistance to powdery mildew.
 
Pyrus betulaefolia 'Southworth' Dancer™
Landscape value: This attractive flowering ornamental pear selection has fine birch-like leaves that ‘dance’ in the slightest breeze. An excellent choice of small growing foliage tree for parks, gardens and streetscapes.
Height: 7 metres x 4.5 metres
Foliage: New growth emerges as silvery-grey, and soon matures to a shining mid-green with a finely serrate margin. Leaves have longish petioles and hang on slender branchlets. Yellow in autumn.
Flowers: Numerous white flowers with bright purplish-red stamens are produced in groups of eight to ten. Observed to bloom later than most other ornamental pears in some regions of Australia
Comments: Best in full sun. Proving to be a tough and durable ornamental pear, smaller and markedly different in form, colour and texture to most Pyrus cultivars currently available in Australia.

Malus ioensis 'Plena'
Landscape value:  Probably the most commonly planted of all Crab Apples, predominantly for its excellent spring floral display, this small growing tree also features very good autumn colour. The Bechtel Crab Apple is a good choice for small to medium landscape projects or where space is limited.
Height: 6 metres x 4.5 metres
Foliage: Green leaves with distinct, coarsely serrated margins. Rich dark red and orange in autumn.
Flowers: Masses of mildly fragrant, double flowers in groups of three to five in late spring. The outer petals of the buds are a soft, delicate pink and open to large, rose-like flowers with prominent yellow stamens. At full bloom the tree is a floral mass.
Fruit: A sparse quantity of small green crab apples.
Tolerances: Prefers slightly acidic, well drained soil in full sun to partial shade.
Comments: Also available top-grafted onto a ‘tall’ standard at approximately 1.8 metres.

'Polka' Apple - Ballerina® 
Description: Compact, columnar tree. Medium sized round fruit. Green skin with red developing on areas exposed to the sun. Crisp and juicy flesh with a good flavour when picked straight from the tree. Suitable for fresh fruit, drying and cooking.
Maturity:  Matures mid-season.
Tree Size: Tree grows to approximately 600mm x 3.5 metres.
Pollination: Ballerina® 'Maypole', 'Waltz', and 'Bolero' or 'Jonathan', 'Granny Smith', 'Red Delicious'. White spring flowers flushed with pink.
Comments: Produces fruit on spurs close to the main trunk. If a side branch appears it can be pruned back to 100mm from the main trunk. An excellent choice for a small garden or for growing in containers. The unusual shape lends itself to narrow garden beds.

Betula utilis var. jacquemontii
Landscape value:  Sometimes referred to as the Whitebarked Himalayan Birch, this tree is well known for its highly ornamental, brilliant creamy-white, peeling bark. A beautiful tree whether planted as a specimen or in groups or rows.
Height: 10 metres x 6 metres
Habit: Upright, pyramidal.
Foliage: Dark green, ovate, with an unevenly serrate margin. Yellow in autumn.
Bark: Highly ornamental. Exfoliating in horizontal papery flakes to reveal creamy-white to coppery-brown bark. These papery flakes are often retained even on the trunks of mature trees.
Tolerances: Prefers well drained, moist soils, but will tolerate some wetness and dryness.
Comments: Ideally suited to situations requiring a formal look. Usually tends to grow with a very straight trunk.

Acer palmatum 'Sango Kaku'
Landscape value: A well known Japanese Maple cultivar with unusual coral pink young stems that create a striking effect, especially in winter. This feature and the superb yellow to apricot autumn foliage make it an elegant tree ideal for protected areas of gardens and parks.
Height: 6 metres x 5 metres
Habit: 'Vase' shaped, multi-stemmed small tree.
Foliage: Light green, five lobed, flat leaves with red petioles. The lobes are rounded and tapered to a sharp point and have a doubly serrate margin. The autumn colours are brilliant yellow with an apricot-orange tinge. Leaves can occasionally have seven to nine lobes.
Bark: The young stems are bright coral pink to red which intensifies and becomes more obvious in the dormant period. Older branches gradually become brown with attractive green striations.
Tolerances: Adaptable to a range of soil types once established, but prefers a moist, well drained soil.
Comments: Should not be planted in exposed areas where hot summer winds may stress the tree and leaves may suffer scorch in very hot sun. Synonymous with Acer palmatum ‘Senkaki’.

Trees on set from: Flemmings Nursery: www.flemings.com.au