10 Amazing Slender Trees for Small Garden Landscape Projects

[@shawnfox7393]

I planted one of those slender silhouette sweetgums three years ago from MrMaple, so it was just a small trade gallon plant under 2 feet tall. It is now about 12 feet tall. Really impressed at how fast it grows. Beautiful tree and has nice fall leaf color.

[@Tami24945]

Jim I have a small front yard but have always wanted a blue spruce or a Christmas tree looking tree but I need a dwarf tree. Do you know what tree would fit the bill?

[@HandcraftedintheFoothills]

Awesome info and congrats on 213k subscribers

[@JimPutnam]

Thank you so much!

[@MsCmsh]

Jim, you really deserve multimillion subscribers!! People will eventually catch up on what they are missing from your awesome channel!! Tks for your great “lessons” each time I watch!! 👏🏻👏🏻😃

[@LizZorab]

A really interesting selection. Watching from UK, so our climate is a little different (to say the least), but still some great ideas that I can use in our garden. Thank you!

[@dawnb7457]

Thanks Jim, I'm looking at some narrow trees for fall...really needed this!

[@jennifergreene8891]

Thank you Jim for the great info! We have a very small yard. Zone 9b Texas

[@passepartoot]

I scored a ‘Golden Bell Tower’ from our local Master Gardeners. I planted it as a boulevard tree this June. It shot up 30” in a hot, ‘hell strip’ here in zone 8a. Very happy with this tree, May I add ‘Evening Light’ styrax to your list. Dark, dark glossy leaves with lovely white flowers that dangle like jewels. Super tough and heat-hardy.

[@chriscoogan2736]

Are there slender trees that grow well and full in mostly shady places?

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thanks Jim. 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃

[@TheKingOfInappropriateComments]

Back when I lived in a subdivision, the house was on a tiny 1/8 of an acre lot, the house took up most of it, think that's half of a quarter acre, so very small. I had a collection of columnars and the time that I had moved from that house 13 years later, I had 35 trees on that tiny lot. A couple you have named here. I had a few of the Apollo sugar maples , unbelievable, especially in the fall and in the shade. Only one of them was not in the shade and I lost it to ambrosia beetles. I lost another columnar Sugar maple to ambrosia beetle called Steeple. And another one that I had was the fastigiata European Hornbeam. That tree was tough as nails. I had mine on standard as is was marketed as an urban tolerant street tree but many that thing was great in between the houses, it loved that site too since if was where a lot of water drained and got briefly flooded from time to time. I'd advise against the sugar maples though sadly if you are south of the mason-dixon. It's just gotten too darn hot.

[@Peppersunlimited]

Such a great video idea. You’re the best jim

[@Mikhail-Caveman]

Cool video Jim, I recently plucked out and potted a couple of boxwood seedlings I found in the bottom of some Dee Runk's at there Nursery, how long do you think I'll be waiting for those to get 10 to 12 ft tall? lol I'm gonna try to find out though

[@ddonahue99]

Planted a Golden Belltower parrotia almost a year ago and it’s done very well in its first year in zone 8b! Excited to see you mention it. Looking forward to the fall color.

[@adz5bneweng589]

Absolutely love my American fringe tree. Expected 15' h x 12-15' wide. Mine is multi-trunked so may get a bit wider or i may convert it to single-trunk at some point.

[@anitahadley2871]

After removing two sweet gum trees I would never plant one purposefully in my small garden, no matter how narrow it grows. I still find those damn balls on my deck and all over the garden because of trees in my neighbor’s yard. The wind throws those things far and wide so I would not want to chance it. And the seedlings pop up everywhere as well.

[@ivettesantana4319]

Just came from your sky pencil holly video from 7 years ago lol I need something that I can trim at my 5 feet of height and keep it there.

[@BobbieJeanM]

Does the upright sweet gum also produce spiked balls that drop and are blown all over the place in the fall? If so, it creates an unsightly and uncomfortable to walk on yard cover. There are a few in my yard that was once a wooded area in a larger piece of land. It’s one tree I would never deliberately plant.

[@JimPutnam]

It's not sterile, but it's only 4' wide and not 40'. Should just end up in the bed

[@branch7010]

I have 3 that have been planted for 3 years and are now 20 feet tall and 3 feet wide, started at 8 feet and 1 foot wide. This year I checked for gumballs and counted about 3-4 clusters of 5 gumballs in each. I was tempted to get a ladder and cut them out. But it's so little it's not worth it. Nothing like the normal trees.

[@BobbieJeanM]

@@JimPutnam I hope so. I do live in the country where there’s probably much more wind than the city, but those things end up halfway across my half acre yard from where the trees are. At least 3 times in the fall and about the same in spring and summer I pick them all up but more always drop. And I pull seedlings through spring and summer. Ugh! 😝

[@passepartoot]

More tree videos, please.

[@katiedotson704]

I fail to understand why anyone would plant a Sweet Gum on purpose. I am in N.E. Ga, zone 7 and Sweet Gums are hated here. The Gum Balls are a pain to deal with they reseed and put out new growth from the roots of existing trees, prolifically. If you cut down one, 10 will sprout to take it's place.

[@sunitashastry5270]

I don’t know why you are growing the ones with the female flowers. I don’t know the botany but I have a sweet gum which has no flowers, no fruits, only leaves, columnar and fabulous fabulous fall color that never fails. My maples vary in what color and if they will change color properly but this one is stable and spectacular. Also does not keep dropping twigs like so many trees do nowadays.

[@BobbieJeanM]

@@sunitashastry5270 the sweet gum trees that aren’t columnar are native and grow willy nilly anywhere there’s forest in the eastern part of the country. No one in their right mind would deliberately plant the native tree in a yard, you would pay yearlong for the few weeks of color in the fall.

[@katiedotson704]

@@sunitashastry5270 I did not choose these trees. They are native to my area and were here when I bought my property. With the exception of those that live in subdivisions, There are few people that don't have them on their property. The Sweet Gum's one redeeming quality is that there are a number of birds that eat the seeds. The flowers are rather insignificant to us but the early pollinators enjoy them. Why are you growing a sterile tree that has nothing to offer any of the wildlife? I would be fine with this tree if it would just behave itself a little better. I am convinced that our entire world needs to be reforested in any way it can, but I don't think it should be done by one species of tree and not in my yard.

[@silverbackag9790]

Anyone know what those very tall slender trees are that Ram has shooting up in her garden? Been trying to figure this out as it’s driving me nuts. They are awesome.

[@onetwocue]

Im on top of a hill in iowa. We get winter wind gust coming in the east at an average 40 mph that persist into early summer. What narrow windbreakers can i plant that wont lose its shape due to high winds with extreme temperatures? I have an orchard of apple trees and you can definitely see the trees are all growing in one direction due to the winds. I want them to grow uniform but i need to plant a windbreak.

[@fattyslim96]

Any idea how the slender silhouette does in moist / wet clay @Jim? Thinking of using these as a screen behind by a fence gate.

[@LarryHatch]

Yes, 'Columnaris' goes under many names but 'Fastigiata' and 'Pyramidalis' are different. MONUMENT(TM) is a selected clone and 'Columnaris Nana' and 'Yewdell' are ordinary 'Columnaris'.

[@HandcraftedintheFoothills]

We have 3 Teddy Bear that with your advice we were able to save from us having planted them way too deep.

[@alanerpington5698]

About to put a few of them in the ground myself! Gotta keep them away from my septic field, though - magnolias have extra wide root systems.

[@barbarawall6349]

Can Teddie Bear be planted near tree line?

[@dylan8285]

Conifers definitely dominate in this category for trees theres so many specialty narrow evergreens of course they come with a price but that’s how it goes

[@chrisbugge4257]

Do deer eat the hornbeam ?

[@PatriciaNanAnderson]

No yews! I love my columnar yews...

[@SandraHall-g4s]

I tried to join the learn to garden, but I don't know the code for the 50 dollars off.

[@JimPutnam]

Thank you so much. It is FALL50

[@josh.kaptur]

Ginkgo “broadspire” or “fairmont park”.

[@JimPutnam]

I have the ginkgo for the next video!

[@pennyduncan5980]

😊

[@sterlgirlceline]

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[@pozzee2809]

I remember and can visualize it, my sister falling off her bike, causing a huge gash in her head. I remember and see in my mind, her going into a nearby store and paper towels being put on her head to stop the blood. Only problem is, I wasn’t there.

[@rustynailmendlesohn8710]

I hate to disagree, but I wouldn't plant ANY variety of a Sweet Gum unless I was GUARANTEED that it didn't produce those spiky ankle twisting seed balls in the thousands.. I can't tell you the number of neighbors here that have had them removed from their homes here in my Illinois neighborhood.👎👎

[@BobbieJeanM]

Completely agree!

[@branch7010]

I have 3 slender silhouettes. This year I count 20-30 gum balls on each tree. Note the trees are 20 feet tall and 3 feet wide. So barely any gumballs. Now the normal sweet gums down the street I can see thousands on them.

[@shawnfox7393]

Slender silhouette does produce the gumballs but far fewer than a full sized tree and they all fall right near the tree so not a big deal, especially if it is planted in a bed surrounded by shrubs or flowers.