Mother Earth’s Garden

Trees and Shrubs for Containers

by Rebecca on July 27th, 2007

When you are working with a container garden, it’s important to use trees and shrubs that don’t mind being a little pot bound. You will inevitably need to prune the roots or repot a tree or shrub occasionally, so don’t plan on planting a tree or shrub if you think you’ll regret having to wrestle with it later. Here is a list of trees and shrubs that do well in containers. You’ll note that some of them are not so much a tree or shrub, but they can be trained to grow into a tree like shape.

• Fig tree
• Boxwood
• Sweet Bay tree
• Japanese maple
• Eucalyptus
• Rubber tree
• Bamboo
• Palms
• Large varieties of Philodendron
• Japanese Pittosporum (Pittosporum tobira)
• Ivy (some varieties can be pruned to be bushy or can be trained to look like small trees or bonsai)
• Yucca
• Norwegian pine
• Serrissa, Snow-Rose
• Buddist Pine

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