Ornamental Height Guide

Introduction

What height does the tree you want to buy online grow to? This is one of the most commonly asked questions at Trees Online. To help you choose, the heights shown are the suggested 10-year heights. They are guides only: soil, exposure, climate and aftercare will affect the result.

As a rough rule, many trees listed will grow to around 150% of the 10-year height by 20 years. Availability varies by season; we don’t always stock every variety named here. If you need a variety not on the site, contact us.

Very Small Trees Up To 1.25 m
Small Trees Up To 4 m
Medium Trees Up To 6 m
Large Trees Over 6 m

Very Small Trees Up To 1.25 m

Acer (Japanese Maple)

A. palmatum ‘Green Dissectum’

Cotinus (Smoke Tree)

C. coggygria ‘Young Lady’

Cotoneaster

C. nanshan (Syn. C. ‘Praecox’)
C. salicifolius ‘Repens’
C. × suecicus ‘Juliette’

Euonymus

E. fortunei ‘Canadale Gold’
E. hamiltonianus ‘Indian Summer’
E. planipes

Heptacodium

H. miconioides

Hydrangea

H. quercifolia ‘Snow Queen’

Larix (Larch)

L. decidua ‘Puli’

Pinus (Pine)

P. heldreichii ‘Compact Gem’
P. mugo ‘Pal Maleter’
P. nigra ‘Black Prince’

Prunus

P. incisa ‘Kojo-no-mai’
P. mume ‘Beni-chidori’ (Syn. ‘Beni-shidare’, ‘Beni-shidon’, ‘Beni-shidori’) — Japanese Apricot

Japanese Flowering Cherries

‘Little Pink Perfection’

Pyrus (Pear)

P. nivalis ‘Catalia’

Robinia

R. pseudoacacia ‘Twisty Babe’ (Syn. ‘Lace Lady’)

Salix (Willow)

S. caprea ‘Pendula’

Toona

T. sinensis ‘Flamingo’

Small Trees Up To 4 m

Abies (Silver Fir)

A. koreana ‘Silberlocke’ (Syn. ‘Horstmann’s Silberlocke’)
A. lasiocarpa ‘Compacta’

Acer (Maple)

A. campestre ‘Carnival’
A. capillipes (Snake-bark Maple)
A. ginnala ‘Flame’ (Tatarian Maple)
A. griseum (Paperbark Maple)
A. grosseri var. hersii (Snake-bark Maple)
A. micranthum
A. negundo ‘Flamingo’
A. negundo ‘Variegatum’
A. pseudoplatanus ‘Brilliantissimum’
A. pseudoplatanus ‘Prinz Handjery’

Acer (Japanese Maple)

A. palmatum ‘Atropurpureum’
A. palmatum × circinatum ‘Red Wings’
A. palmatum ‘Osakazuki’
A. palmatum ‘Tamukeyama’

Aesculus (Horse Chestnut)

A. pavia var. discolor ‘Koehnei’ (Dwarf Red Buckeye)
A. parviflora (Bottlebrush Buckeye)

Albizia (Silk Tree)

A. julibrissin ‘Ombrella’ (BOU-ALBRI)
A. julibrissin ‘Rosea’

Amelanchier (Juneberry / Snowy Mespilus)

A. alnifolia ‘Obelisk’
A. × grandiflora ‘Ballerina’
‘La Paloma’
A. laevis ‘R. J. Hilton’
A. laevis ‘Snowflakes’

Arbutus (Strawberry Tree)

A. unedo (Killarney Strawberry Tree)

Aronia (Chokeberry)

A. melanocarpa ‘Autumn Magic’

Campsis

C. flava ‘Indian Summer’

Carpinus (Hornbeam)

C. betulus ‘Pendula’

Catalpa

C. bignonioides ‘Aurea’ (Golden Indian Bean Tree)
C. bignonioides ‘Aurea Nana’
C. bignonioides ‘Nana’
C. × erubescens ‘Purpurea’

Cedrus (Cedar)

C. atlantica ‘Glauca Pendula’

Cercidiphyllum

C. japonicum (Katsura Tree)
C. japonicum ‘Pendulum’

Cercis (Redbud)

C. canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’
C. canadensis ‘Hearts of Gold’
C. canadensis ‘Lavender Twist’
C. chinensis ‘Avondale’
C. reniformis ‘Texas White’
C. siliquastrum (Judas Tree)
C. siliquastrum ‘Bodnant’

Cornus (Dogwood)

C. florida (North American Flowering Dogwood)
C. florida ‘Cloud Nine’
C. florida ‘Daybreak’ (CHEROKEE DAYBREAK)
C. florida ‘Rainbow’
C. florida ‘Rubra’
C. kousa var. chinensis
C. kousa ‘White Fountain’
C. mas (Cornelian Cherry)
‘Norman Hadden’
C. rubra ‘Sunset’

Corylus (Hazel)

C. avellana ‘Aurea’
C. avellana ‘Contorta’ (Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick)
C. avellana ‘Heterophylla’ (Syn. ‘Laciniata’)
C. avellana ‘Pendula’
C. avellana ‘Red Majestic’
C. colurna (Turkish Hazel)
‘Te-Terra Red’

Cotinus (Smoke Tree)

C. coggygria ‘Royal Purple’
C. coggygria ‘Smokey Joe’

Cotoneaster

C. frigidus ‘Cornubia’
‘Hybridus Pendulus’
C. salicifolius ‘Exburiensis’
C. × suecicus ‘Coral Beauty’

Crataegus (Thorn)

C. arnoldiana
C. laevigata ‘Crimson Cloud’ (Syn. ‘Punicea’)
C. laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’ (Syn. ‘Coccinea Plena’)
C. laevigata ‘Plena’
C. laevigata ‘Rosea Flore Pleno’
C. × lavalleei ‘Carrierei’
C. orientalis (Syn. C. laciniata)
C. pinnatifida var. major ‘Big Golden Star’
C. schraderiana

Cryptomeria (Japanese Cedar)

C. japonica ‘Elegans Viridis’

Cupressus (Cypress)

C. arizonica var. glabra ‘Blue Ice’

Cytisus (Broom)

C. battandieri (Moroccan / Pineapple Broom)

Elaeagnus

‘Quicksilver’

Euonymus

E. europaeus (Spindle)
E. europaeus ‘Red Cascade’
E. phellomanus

Fothergilla (Witch Alder)

F. major

Fraxinus

F. ornus ‘Obelisk’

Gleditsia

G. triacanthos inermis ‘Skyline’ (Speczam)
G. triacanthos ‘Sunburst’

Halesia

H. carolina (Snowdrop Tree)

Hamamelis (Witch Hazel)

H. × intermedia ‘Arnold Promise’
H. × intermedia ‘Diane’
H. × intermedia ‘Jelena’ (Syn. ‘Copper Beauty’)
H. × intermedia ‘Pallida’

Hibiscus

H. syriacus ‘Hamabo’
H. syriacus ‘Marina’
H. syriacus ‘Woodbridge’

Ilex (Holly)

I. × altaclerensis ‘Belgica Aurea’ (Syn. ‘Silver Sentinel’)
I. × altaclerensis ‘Golden King’
I. aquifolium (Common Holly)
I. aquifolium ‘Argentea Marginata’
I. aquifolium ‘Aurea Marginata’
I. aquifolium ‘Handsworth New Silver’
I. aquifolium ‘J. C. van Tol’
I. aquifolium ‘Limsi’
I. aquifolium ‘Silver Queen’ (Syn. ‘Argentea Regina’)

Koelreuteria

K. paniculata (Golden Rain Tree)
K. paniculata ‘Fastigiata’

Laburnum

L. × watereri ‘Vossii’

Magnolia

‘Elizabeth’
‘Heaven Scent’
‘Limelight’
M. salicifolia ‘Wada’s Memory’
M. salicifolia ‘Windsor Beauty’
‘Star Wars’
M. wilsonii

Malus (Crab Apple)

‘Adirondack’ (ADMIRATION)
M. baccata
M. baccata ‘Dolgo’ (Syn. ‘Pink Glow’)
M. brevipes ‘Wedding Bouquet’
‘Butterball’
‘Cardinal’ (Syn. M. hupehensis ‘Cardinal’)
‘Contessa de Paris’
‘Coralburst’
M. coronaria ‘Elk River’
‘Crittenden’
‘Donald Wyman’
‘Evereste’
M. florentina
M. floribunda (Japanese Crab)
‘Golden Gem’
‘Gorgeous’
‘Harry Baker’
M. ioensis ‘Purpurea’ (EVELYN) (Syn. M. ‘Rubra’)
‘Jelly King’
‘John Downie’
‘Laura’
‘Louisa’
M. × moerlandsii ‘Liset’
M. × moerlandsii ‘Profusion Improved’
‘Pink Perfection’
‘Prairie Fire’
‘Professor Sprenger’
‘Red Obelisk’
M. × robusta ‘Red Sentinel’
‘Royal Beauty’
‘Royalty’
‘Rudolph’
M. sargentii ‘Tina’
‘Sun Rival’
M. toringo ‘Scarlett’
M. transitoria
M. transitoria ‘Thornhayes Tansy’
M. trilobata ‘Guardsman’
‘White Star’
M. × zumi var. calocarpa ‘Golden Hornet’

Parrotia

P. persica (Persian Ironwood)

Photinia

P. davidiana ‘Palette’
P. × fraseri ‘Red Robin’

Pinus (Pine)

P. densiflora ‘Alice Verkade’

Prunus

P. × blireana
P. cerasifera ‘Hessei’
P. cerasifera ‘Spring Glow’
P. × cistena ‘Crimson Dwarf’
‘Collingwood Ingram’
P. incisa ‘Mikinori’
P. incisa ‘Pendula’ (Weeping Fuji Cherry)
P. incisa ‘Praecox’
P. incisa ‘The Bride’
‘Kursar’
P. laurocerasus ‘Rotundifolia’
P. litigiosa (Tassel Cherry)
P. lusitanica (Portugal Laurel)
P. nipponica ‘Brilliant’
‘Okame’
‘Pandora’
P. pendula ‘Pendula Rubra’
P. pendula ‘Stellata’
P. persica ‘Versicolor’
‘Pink Shell’
P. rufa (Himalayan Cherry)
P. sargentii (Sargent Cherry)
P. serrula (Syn. P. serrula var. tibetica)
‘Snow Goose’
‘Snow Showers’
P. × subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’ (White Autumn Cherry)
P. × subhirtella ‘Autumnalis Rosea’ (Pink Autumn Cherry)
P. × yedoensis ‘Shidare Yoshino’ (Syn. ‘Weeping Yoshino’)

Japanese Flowering Cherries

‘Amanogawa’
‘Beni-tamanishiki’ (SPRING SNOW)
‘Daikoku’
‘Horinji’
‘Kiku-shidare-zakura’ (Syn. P. ‘Cheal’s Weeping’)
‘Matsumae-fuki’ (CHOCOLATE ICE)
‘Pink Perfection’
‘Royal Burgundy’
‘Shirotae’
‘Sh?getsu’ (Syn. P. ‘Shimidsu-zakura’, ‘Longipes’; BLUSHING BRIDE)

Pyrus (Pear)

P. amygdaliformis var. cuneifolia
P. calleryana ‘Chanticleer’
P. elaeagnifolia var. kotschyana ‘Silver Sail’
P. nivalis
P. salicifolia var. orientalis ‘Pendula’ (Weeping Willow-leaved Pear)

Robinia

R. × margaretta ‘Pink Cascade’

Salix (Willow)

‘Erythroflexuosa’ (GOLDEN CURLS)
S. irrorata

Sambucus (Elder)

S. nigra porphyrophylla ‘Black Beauty’ (Syn. ‘Gerda’)
S. nigra porphyrophylla ‘Black Lace’ (Syn. ‘Eva’)

Sorbus (Mountain Ash & Whitebeam)

‘Autumn Spire’
S. cashmiriana
‘Chinese Lace’
S. commixta
‘Fastigiata’
S. folgneri ‘Lemon Drop’
‘Ghose’
S. hemsleyi ‘John Bond’
S. hupehensis ‘Pink Pagoda’
‘Joseph Rock’
‘Leonard Messel’
‘Pink Ness’
S. pseudovilmorinii
‘Ravensbill’
S. rosea ‘Rosiness’
S. sargentiana
‘Sunshine’
S. vilmorinii

Stewartia

S. pseudocamellia

Syringa (Lilac)

S. pubescens subsp. patula ‘Miss Kim’
S. reticulata ‘Ivory Silk’
S. vulgaris ‘Charles Joly’
S. vulgaris ‘Katherine Havemeyer’
S. vulgaris ‘Madame Lemoine’
S. vulgaris ‘Michel Buchner’
S. vulgaris ‘Primrose’
S. vulgaris ‘Sensation’
S. vulgaris ‘Souvenir de Louis Spaeth’ (Syn. ‘Andenken an Ludwig Späth’)
S. vulgaris ‘Sweetheart’

Taxus (Yew)

T. baccata ‘Standishii’ (Fastigiata)

Tilia (Lime / Linden)

T. cordata ‘Winter Orange’

Medium Trees Up To 6 m

Acacia (Wattle)

A. dealbata (Silver Wattle)

Acer (Maple)

A. campestre (Field Maple)
A. cappadocicum ‘Rubrum’
A. davidii ‘George Forrest’ (Snake-bark)
A. × freemanii ‘Autumn Blaze’

Aesculus

A. × neglecta ‘Erythroblastos’

Alnus (Alder)

A. glutinosa ‘Imperialis’

Betula (Birch)

B. pendula (syn. B. alba) ‘Pendula’ (Common Silver Birch)
B. albosinensis ‘Fascination’
B. albosinensis ‘Kansu’
B. albosinensis var. septentrionalis
B. ermanii ‘Grayswood Hill’
B. ermanii ‘Hakkoda Orange’
B. ermanii ‘Pendula’
B. ermanii ‘Polar Bear’
‘Fetisowii’
B. globispica ‘Hergest’
B. luminifera
B. papyrifera (Paper / Canoe Birch)
B. pendula ‘Dalecarlica’
B. pendula ‘Golden Beauty’ (Syn. ‘Schneverdinger Goldbirke’)
B. pendula ‘Tristis’
B. pendula ‘Youngii’
B. platyphylla ‘Dakota Pinnacle’ (FARGO) — Asian White Birch
‘Royal Frost’
B. utilis var. albosinensis ‘Edinburgh’
B. utilis ‘Forest Blush’
B. utilis var. jacquemontii
B. utilis var. jacquemontii ‘Grayswood Ghost’
B. utilis var. jacquemontii ‘Jermyns’
B. utilis var. jacquemontii ‘Silver Shadow’
B. utilis var. jacquemontii ‘Trinity College’
B. utilis ‘Moonbeam’
B. utilis ‘Snow Queen’ (Syn. B. jacquemontii ‘Doorenbos’)
B. utilis ‘Wakehurst Place Chocolate’

Carpinus (Hornbeam)

C. betulus (Common Hornbeam)
C. betulus ‘Frans Fontaine’

Cedrus (Cedar)

C. deodara ‘Aurea’ (Golden Deodar)

Chamaecyparis (False Cypress)

C. (syn. Callitropsis) nootkatensis ‘Green Arrow’
C. (syn. Callitropsis) nootkatensis ‘Jubilee’

Crataegus (Thorn)

C. monogyna ‘Biflora’ (Syn. ‘Praecox’) — Glastonbury Thorn
C. pedicellata (Scarlet Haw)
C. persimilis ‘Prunifolia’
C. prunifolia ‘Splendens’

Davidia

D. involucrata (Pocket Handkerchief Tree)

Eucalyptus (Gum)

‘Azura’
E. dalrympleana (Mountain Gum)
E. gunnii (Cider Gum)
E. pauciflora subsp. niphophila (Snow Gum)
E. perriniana (Spinning Gum)

Fagus (Beech)

F. sylvatica ‘Black Swan’
F. sylvatica ‘Dawyck Gold’
F. sylvatica ‘Dawyck Purple’

Fraxinus

F. angustifolia ‘Raywood’ (Syn. ‘Flame’)
F. excelsior ‘Pendula’ (Weeping Ash)

Ginkgo (Maidenhair Tree)

G. biloba

Juniperus

J. scopulorum ‘Blue Arrow’

Larix (Larch)

L. kaempferi (Japanese Larch)

Liquidambar

L. acalycina
L. styraciflua (Sweet Gum)
L. styraciflua ‘Lane Roberts’
L. styraciflua ‘Palo Alto’
L. styraciflua ‘Slender Silhouette’
L. styraciflua ‘Stared’
L. styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’

Liriodendron

L. tulipifera ‘Fastigiatum’

Picea (Spruce)

P. pungens ‘Hoopsii’

Pinus (Pine)

P. flexilis ‘Firmament’
P. sylvestris ‘Chantry Blue’
P. sylvestris ‘Inverleith’

Prunus

‘Accolade’
P. avium (Wild Cherry / Scottish Gean)
P. avium ‘Plena’ (Syn. ‘Multiplex’)
P. cerasifera ‘Nigra’
P. laurocerasus ‘Caucasica’
P. padus ‘Watereri’ (Syn. ‘Grandifolia’)
P. sargentii
‘Shosar’
P. × yedoensis (Yoshino Cherry)

Japanese Flowering Cherries

‘Beni-yutaka’
‘Ichiyo’
‘Kanzan’
‘Matsumae-beni-murasaki’ (CANDY FLOSS)
‘Matsumae-hanagasa’ (Pink Parasol)
‘Shirofugen’
‘Shizuka’ (FRAGRANT CLOUD)
‘Sunset Boulevard’
‘Taihaku’ (Great White Cherry)

Pseudolarix

P. amabilis (Golden Larch)

Robinia

R. pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’

Salix

S. alba ‘Golden Ness’
S. alba var. vitellina ‘Britzensis’ (Syn. ‘Chermesina’) — Scarlet Willow
S. alba ‘Hutchinson’s Yellow’
S. alba var. vitellina ‘Yelverton’
S. × sepulcralis var. chrysocoma (Syn. S. alba ‘Tristis’) — Golden Weeping Willow

Sorbus (Mountain Ash & Whitebeam)

S. aria ‘Lutescens’
S. aucuparia (Rowan / Mountain Ash)
S. aucuparia ‘Asplenifolia’
‘Copper Kettle’
‘Dodong’ (OLYMPIC FLAME)
‘Eastern Promise’
S. hedlundii
S. torminalis (Wild Service / Chequer Tree)
‘Wisley Gold’

Taxus (Yew)

T. baccata (Common Yew)
T. baccata ‘Fastigiata’ (Irish Yew)
T. baccata ‘Fastigiata Aureomarginata’ (Golden Irish Yew)

Tetradium

T. daniellii

Tilia (Lime / Linden)

T. × europaea ‘Wratislaviensis’ (Golden Lime)
T. henryana

Zelkova

Z. carpinifolia ‘Kiwi Sunset’

Large Trees Over 6 m

Abies (Silver Fir)

A. pinsapo ‘Glauca’

Aesculus (Horse Chestnut)

A. × carnea ‘Briotii’ (Red Horse Chestnut)
A. hippocastanum (Common Horse Chestnut)

Araucaria (Monkey Puzzle)

A. araucana

Castanea (Chestnut)

C. sativa (Spanish / Sweet Chestnut)

Cedrus (Cedar)

C. atlantica ‘Glauca’ (Blue Atlas Cedar)
C. deodara (Deodar Cedar)
C. libani subsp. atlantica (Cedar of Lebanon)

Fagus (Beech)

F. sylvatica (Common / European Beech)
F. sylvatica var. heterophylla ‘Asplenifolia’ (Fern-leaf Beech)
F. sylvatica ‘Pendula’
F. sylvatica ‘Purple Fountain’
F. sylvatica ‘Purpurea’
F. sylvatica ‘Purpurea Pendula’
F. sylvatica ‘Purpurea Tricolor’ (Syn. ‘Roseomarginata’)
F. sylvatica ‘Riversii’

Fraxinus

F. americana ‘Autumn Purple’
F. excelsior (Common Ash)
F. excelsior ‘Jaspidea’

Juglans (Walnut)

J. nigra (Black Walnut)
J. regia (Common Walnut)

Liriodendron

L. tulipifera (Tulip Tree)
L. tulipifera ‘Aureomarginatum’

Pinus (Pine)

P. sylvestris ‘Aurea’
P. sylvestris ‘Edwin Hillier’
P. sylvestris ‘Fastigiata’
P. wallichiana (Bhutan Pine)

Platanus (Plane)

P. × hispanica (London Plane) (Syn. P. × acerifolia)

Populus (Poplar)

P. × jackii ‘Aurora’
P. nigra ‘Hanging Tree’

Quercus (Oak)

Q. ilex (Evergreen / Holm Oak)
Q. robur (English / Pedunculate Oak)
Q. rubra (Red Oak)

Sequoiadendron

S. giganteum ‘Glaucum’

Sophora

S. japonica ‘Pendula’

Taxodium

T. distichum (Swamp Cypress)

Tilia (Lime / Linden)

T. cordata (Small-leaved Lime)
T. × europaea ‘Euchlora’
T. × europaea ‘Pallida’
T. platyphyllos
T. platyphyllos ‘Pendula’

Ulmus (Elm)

U. × hollandica ‘Dampieri Aurea’
‘Triumph Elm’

Ornamental Height Guide

Table of Contents

Very Small Trees Up To 1.25 m

Small Trees Up To 4 m

Medium Trees Up To 6 m

Large Trees Over 6 m