The following list gives some examples of trees that can provide the garden with interest over two or more seasons, with decorative leaves, attractive flowers or colourful stems:

Winter and Spring

• Acer negundo (Box elder)

Spring and Autumn

• Amelanchier lamarckii (Juneberry)
• Crataegus x lavallei 'Carrierei' (Hybrid cockspur thorn)
• Malus 'Golden Hornet' (Crab apple)
• Prunus sargentii (Sargent's cherry)
• Sorbus scalaris (Ladder rowan)

Summer and Autumn

• Catalpa bignonioides (Cigar tree)
• Cladrastis lutea (Yellow wood)
• Cornus kousa (Chinese dogwood)
• Cornus kousa var. chinensis 'China Girl' (Chinese dogwood)
• Eucryphia glutinosa (Nirrhe)
• Fagus sylvatica 'Dawyck Gold' (Golden Dawyck beech)
• Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip tree)
• Stewartia pseudocamellia (Japanese stewartia)
• Tilia tomentosa 'Petiolaris' (Weeping silver lime)

Autumn and Winter

• Acer capillipes (Snake bark maple)
• Acer davidii (Snake bark maple)
• Acer griseum (Paperbark maple)
• Acer palmatum 'Sango-Kaku' (Coral bark maple)
• Acer pensylvanicum 'Erythrocladum' (Striped maple)

All Year Round

• Acacia dealbata (Mimosa)
• Arbutus x andrachnoides (Cyprus strawberry tree)
• Arbutus menziesii (Madrona)
• Betula alto-sinensis var. septentrionalis (Northern China red-barked birch)
• Betula utilis var. jacquemontii (White barked Himalayan birch)
• Betula ermanii (Gold birch)
• Betula utilis var. jacquemontii (White barked Himalayan birch)
• Eucalyptus ficifolia (Red flowering gum)
• Ilex x altaclerensis 'Golden King' (Variegated Highclere holly)
• Magnolia grandiflora (Laurel magnolia)