In the process of landscaping the backyard and I'm looking for some suggestions for smaller trees for my tiny backyard.
Have approximately 30'x30' backyard between the house and detached garage, planing on having a 15'x15' patio off the house and we have a 5' URW running down the one side from the house to garage.
I've already planted 3 columnar aspens to screen the patio area from the one neighbor so I don't really want to use anymore of them but I'm looking to plant another tree in each back corner of the yard (one on the URW which I'll rip out later if need be). Thinking a flowering crabapple in one corner (pink spire or thunderchild?) and a dakota pinnacle birch in the other (on top of the URW). The crabapple tree will grow pretty wide which should offer some variation to the yard and the birch is fairly compact, columnar style tree but a little more bushy than the aspens.
Considering some larger shrubs in place of the birch on the URW just in case but I can't image the roots for large shrubs much less invasive than a tree but I dunno.
And any suggestion for shrubs to line up against the garage to hide it somewhat?
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