The Woodland Garden
Yes you can have trees in a small garden, but why stop there, have a woodland!
This part of the garden gets the maximum shade after lunchtime in summer thanks mostly to the bank of oak and beech trees that line the drive (that sounds posher than it is!) These trees look glorious in spring when their leaves first uncurl and the shade on a hot day is very welcome.
Initially this part of the garden was grassed over with the mixed border finishing just about where the arch is. There's a large shrubby honeysuckle that sits side by side with a camellia that is at least 8 foot tall.
I had two silver birch trees in pots that were about a foot tall and these make up the canopy of the woodland garden. A self seeded Elder that I cut back to about three foot each year sits on the fence line. In just two years the silver birches have thickened up considerably and are now at least 8 - 9 foot tall. I don't intent to let them get to tall though and although they have already had a bit of a crown lift, they will also be pollarded when they have reached as high as I am happy for them to be.
The under-story planting is most exciting in late winter and early spring with winter aconites, snow drops and summer snowflakes, grape hyacinths, daffodils, bergenias, anemones and primroses. New for 2020 I've planted erythronium bulbs...fingers crossed they appear.