Perfect for driveways and containers, growing Dwarf Ornamental Trees is one of the best ways to add an appeal to the architectural design of your home!
If you are looking forward to adding color and accent with a bold statement indoors, then growing Dwarf Ornamental Trees in containers is going to do the trick! Not only they enhance the indoor look, but they bring the best of nature with greenery and their dense foliage! Here are some of the best varieties that you can go for!
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1. Jack Dwarf Pear
Botanical Name: Pyrus calleryana ‘Jaczam’
Height: 10-15 feet
Jack dwarf pear is an ornamental tree, with beautiful white flowers. The glossy leaves come with a hint of yellow, orange, and red. This tree has an upright oval shape, ideal for close-packed spaces and its tight branching structure requires minimal pruning as well.
2. Firebird Crabapple
Botanical Name: Malus sargentii ‘Select A’
Height: 6-8 Feet
Firebird Dwarf Crabapple trees are ideal for both small and large gardens. The tree produces a cluster of fragrant white flowers during mid-spring. This disease-tolerant tree offers fruits persistently. They grow well in full sun and well-drained soil.
3. Butterfly Magnolia
Botanical Name: Magnolia ‘Butterflies’
Height: 10-20 feet
The yellow flowers of ‘Butterfly Magnolia’ when opens fully resemble a flying butterfly, hence the name. The tree is covered with attractive fragrant yellow cup-shaped flowers held at the top of the branches in early spring before the leaves.
4. Crabapple
Botanical Name: Malus X ‘Royal Raindrops’
Height: 15-20 feet
Crabapple tree offers beautiful bright pink flowers with matching, glossy dark purple leaves during the summer. The fall color is a mixture of purple, bronze, and orange. This ornamental tree also produces bright red, tiny fruits in late summer.
5. Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry
Botanical Name: Amelanchier x Grandiflora
Height: 15-20 feet
This ornamental tree is prized with attractive white flowers in late April or early May. Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry also produces edible June berries that are loved by many birds. The tree is also disease-resistant and does well in part shade.
6. Japanese Maple
Botanical Name: Acer palmatum
Height: 2-25 feet
Japanese Maple is a perfect dwarf ornamental tree. It is a slow grower and offers the foliage in a variety of colors, ranging from purple to green, to red with interesting canopies and shapes. The attractive leaves make this tree a stunning container specimen.
7. Lavender Twist Redbud
Botanical Name: Cercis canadensis ‘Covey’
Height: 5-15 feet
The lavender twist redbud flowers in rose pea-like blossoms from early spring. It forms green foliage, which turns burgundy in spring. This variety has a show, brown bark, and ornamental fruits. The heart-shaped leaves also attract butterflies!
8. Hydrangea ‘Grandiflora’
Botanical Name: Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’
Height: 10-15 feet
This deciduous shrub produces dense, upright panicles of flower heads, having a white shade that turns to pink as the fall approaches. They flower profusely in fall, so much that the tree bends with their weight! Hydrangeas do well in both sun and shade.
9. Kousa Dogwood Heart Throb
Botanical Name: Cornus kousa
Height: 10-15 feet
Famous for their long-lasting flowers, the Heart Throb is really going to take your breath away with its stunning foliage and splendid, pink flowers! Come June and the tree is going to be full of rose-pink bracts with matching, dark green foliage!
10. Dwarf Korean Lilac
Botanical Name: Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’
Height: 4-5 feet
The dwarf Korean Lilac produces fragrant, tubular pink flowers from purple buds, in early spring. This disease-resistant ornament species is one of the ideal container dwarf ornamental trees. You can grow it as a deciduous hedge as well.
11. Star Magnolia
Botanical Name: Magnolia stellata
Height: 15-20 feet
Star Magnolia is a rounded small tree or shrub, forming an upright conical crown that spreads with age. The leaves are dark green elliptical, simple, and alternate in shape. It produces fragrant white or pink flowers during spring.
12. Purple Leaf Sand Cherry
Botanical Name: Prunus x cistena
Height: 5-8 feet
Purple leaf sand cherry is a great dwarf ornamental tree for your mini garden! This beautiful tree offers red, maroon or purple foliage. It matures into a curved form that opens from the center of the shrub. During early spring, it produces pink-white flowers.
13. Dwarf Conifers
Botanical Name: Pinophyta
Height: 6-15 feet
Conifers can be great dwarf ornamental trees. They can be trimmed and trained to keep short, easily. They produce green cones that turn brown while the tree matures. Some varieties bear full-size cones, while the other features small ones.
14. Plumeria
Botanical Name: Plumeria rubra
Height: 8-12 feet
Famous for their attractive flowers, Plumerias can be a beautiful Dwarf Ornamental Tree for your garden! With evergreen foliage and matching creamy fragrant flowers, they continue to add an appeal to wherever you are going to grow them!
15. Hinoki Dwarf Cypress
Botanical Name: Chamaecyparis obtusa
Height: 4-6 feet
Native to Japan, hinoki cypress has three dwarf cultivars, ‘Nana Gracilis’, ‘Nana Lutea,’ and ‘Nana.’ It features rich green, textured foliage that grows in a conical shape or structure. All three varieties perform best in full to partial sunlight in well-draining, moist soil.
16. Dragon Tree
Botanical Name: Dracaena draco
Height: 8-15 feet
The dragon tree is an evergreen, slow-growing plant from the Canary Islands. This dwarf ornamental tree can survive drought, well. It grows in an umbrella shape when the tree reaches 10-15 years of age; the buds start to produce flowers.
17. Elephant Foot Palm
Botanical Name: Beaucarnea recurvata
Height: 10-20 feet
Also known as the Ponytail palm, this unique-looking, easy to grow plant is not a true palm but a succulent. This dwarf tree displays domed ‘stump’ that tapers into a thin stem. It forms one or more rosettes of green, leathery leaves that can reach up to 3 feet long.
18. Caribbean Copper Plant
Botanical Name: Euphorbia cotinfolia
Height: 8-10 feet
This winter-hardy, deciduous tropical shrub, is endemic to Mexico and South America. It offers beautiful burgundy-red foliage and small white flowers that are encapsulated by white to creamy bracts. The plant thrives well in full sun to light shade.
19. Royal Poinciana
Botanical Name: Delonix regia
Height: 10-25 feet
With scarlet flowers adorning and covering up the entire, dense, dark green foliage, this is a tree to plant if you are looking for an added appeal to your driveway! The tree thrives in full sun so choose an area where it gets ample light.
The dense canopy of the Camperdown Elm gives the feel of a secret hiding place. This small tree is relatively short and wide, typically growing to a height of 15 to 25 feet and a width of 20 to 30 feet. A lot of seeds get blown around the yard when this tree fruits, so expect some cleaning up.
Try planting a buttmunch bush, they are truly beautiful!
There are non-evergreen trees in this list.
Try the buttmunch bush, it beautiful
What about pootie popper trees
I also have never seen a buttmunch Bush
We live in nw wisconsin. What dwarf plants you mentioned can thrive with in ground planting?