Ornamental

At Brookstone Outdoors, our "Ornamental Trees" category brings delicate beauty, vibrant colors, and seasonal charm to your landscape with smaller, deciduous trees prized for their aesthetic appeal. These trees, including favorites like flowering cherries, dogwoods, and redbuds, are perfect for adding focal points, bursts of color, or elegant structure to gardens, patios, or small spaces, enhancing your outdoor environment with grace and versatility.

Why Choose Ornamental Trees:

  • Stunning Visuals: Ornamental trees offer breathtaking displays—spring blossoms in shades of pink, white, or purple, lush summer foliage, vivid fall colors, and often attractive bark or branch patterns in winter. Their compact size and striking features make them ideal for creating eye-catching centerpieces.
  • Seasonal Interest: These trees provide a dynamic cycle of beauty, from the delicate blooms of crabapples to the fiery autumn hues of Japanese maples, ensuring your landscape evolves beautifully through the seasons.
  • Versatility for Small Spaces: With their smaller stature compared to shade trees, ornamental trees fit perfectly in urban gardens, courtyards, or near entryways, adding charm without overwhelming the space.
  • Ecological Benefits: Ornamental trees attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, support local wildlife with flowers or fruit, and contribute to soil stabilization, making them a sustainable addition to your landscape.

Our Selection Process: We source our ornamental trees from trusted growers, ensuring they are healthy, vigorous, and well-suited to your local climate, soil, and sunlight conditions. Our selection includes:

  • Flowering Trees: Varieties like flowering cherry, dogwood, or magnolia for vibrant blooms and seasonal drama.
  • Foliage-Focused Trees: Options like Japanese maple or weeping birch for stunning leaf colors or unique forms.
  • Native Varieties: Species such as serviceberry or redbud to promote local ecosystems and ensure adaptability.
  • Disease-Resistant Cultivars: Modern hybrids bred to resist common issues like powdery mildew or fire blight for lasting health.

Applications in Your Landscape:

  • Focal Points: Plant a single ornamental tree, such as a flowering dogwood or weeping cherry, as a stunning centerpiece in a lawn or garden bed.
  • Entryway Accents: Place trees near doorways or patios to frame entrances with elegant blooms or foliage.
  • Mixed Borders: Combine ornamental trees with shrubs, perennials, or grasses for a layered, textured design that enhances visual depth.
  • Small Spaces: Use compact varieties in courtyards, urban lots, or containers to bring beauty to limited areas.

Care and Support: At Brookstone Outdoors, we ensure your ornamental trees thrive with expert planting and care guidance. We advise on proper site selection, favoring well-draining soil and appropriate sunlight, and provide planting techniques to establish strong roots. Our team offers tips on watering, mulching, and seasonal pruning—often after flowering to preserve blooms—as well as pest and disease management for issues like aphids or leaf spot. We also recommend low-maintenance varieties to suit your lifestyle, ensuring long-term success with minimal effort.With Brookstone Outdoors, ornamental trees transform your landscape into a captivating, ever-changing work of art. Whether you’re seeking vibrant spring blossoms, delicate foliage, or a compact accent for a small space, our carefully curated ornamental trees deliver enduring beauty, ecological value, and seasonal charm, making your outdoor space a picturesque haven for enjoyment year after year.

What we stock

Canada Red Chokecherry Canada Red chokecherry is a small ornamental tree known for its striking foliage color transformation. Leaves emerge green in spring, then transition to a deep burgundy as the season progresses. In…
Cherry Plum Cherry plum is a small ornamental tree prized for its early spring flowers and richly colored foliage. Before leaves emerge, branches are covered in pale pink to white blossoms, creating a soft…
Eastern Redbud Eastern redbud is a small ornamental tree prized for its early spring display of pink to magenta flowers that appear along branches before leaves emerge. Its rounded form and heart-shaped foliage…
Flowering Crabapple Flowering crabapples are ornamental trees valued for their spring blossoms, colorful fruit, and compact size. They typically develop a rounded canopy with dense branching and abundant seasonal…
Goldenrain Tree Goldenrain tree is a small to medium ornamental tree known for its bright yellow summer flowers and decorative seed pods. It develops a rounded canopy with compound leaves that provide light shade.…
Hawthorn Hawthorns are small ornamental trees valued for their spring flowers, decorative fruit, and rugged character. They develop a rounded canopy with branching that can be somewhat irregular, giving them…
Mayday Tree Mayday tree, also known as European bird cherry, is a small ornamental tree known for its upright clusters of fragrant white flowers in spring. It forms a rounded canopy with medium green leaves that…
Mountain Ash Mountain ash is a small to medium ornamental tree valued for its feathery compound leaves, spring flowers, and bright clusters of red or orange berries that persist into fall and winter. The airy…
Ornamental Pear Ornamental pear is a widely planted flowering tree valued for its symmetrical shape and abundant spring bloom. It develops a narrow to oval canopy with glossy green leaves and strong vertical…
Serviceberry Serviceberries are small ornamental trees or large shrubs prized for their multi-season interest. They produce delicate white flowers in early spring, followed by small edible berries that attract…
Thinleaf Alder Thinleaf alder is a native riparian tree or large shrub commonly found along streams and moist valleys in the Rocky Mountain region. It develops a multi-stem or single-trunk form with a rounded…
Tree Lilac Tree lilac is a small ornamental tree prized for its creamy white flower clusters that bloom in early summer. It develops a rounded canopy with smooth gray bark and glossy green leaves. The fragrant…
Weeping Mulberry Weeping mulberry is a small ornamental tree valued for its cascading branches and distinctive form. It typically develops a rounded canopy of weeping stems that create a strong focal point in…