With a small amount of space in the garden, we unfortunately have a limited choice of plants, because we cannot plant many trees and shrubs, which become too large and dominate the garden. In such a situation, we should choose dwarf plants for our garden, or semi-dwarf. Among the mass of varieties of various garden miniatures, dwarf conifers are especially numerous.

These plants have many advantages, including:

• They are generally hardy and easy to grow
• They come in many forms and colors - almost every cultivated conifer species has dwarf varieties, including spherical forms, conical, dangling, with fancifully bent shoots, often produced as stump grafted forms
• They are green all year round (with the exception of larch and metasequoia)
• It is very easy to create interesting compositions from them with any chosen plants, e.g.. with dwarf shrubs like lavender, heathers and heaths, with blooming perennials, with colorful deciduous shrubs, with ornamental grasses, with azaleas and rhododendrons.

• Dwarf forms of conifers are perfect for small home gardens, as the main element of the composition, but also in larger gardens, where it is worth planting them close to the building, paths and other places, in which it is close to people spending time in the garden. Miniature conifers are perfect plants for planting containers and pots, which can be placed on the terrace, or at the entrance to the building Below is a list of especially useful and interesting dwarf conifers, which have proven themselves in home gardens in the climatic conditions of Rzeszów and the surrounding area. Most of these varieties are readily available from plant nurseries and garden centers. Besides this list, there are of course a great many other valuable varieties, which are also noteworthy.
  

  Dwarf conifers for small gardens

• Dense flower pines by Alice Verkade and Jane Kluis, Bosnian pine of Smidtii, BREPO Black Pine, Kosodrzewiny Humpy, Gnome, Mops, Wintergold, Ophir - compact bushes, mostly flat spherical in shape, or spherical, often produced in cash form. These plants are particularly resistant to harsh conditions. Wintergold and Ophir are bright yellow in winter
• Bosnian Pine Compact Gem - compact, dark green ovoid pine growing up to 1,5 heights
• Norway spruce Inversa and Fronburg - weeping forms producing conductor, after a few years, they create fancifully hanging trees approx. 2 m
• Norway spruce Little Gem – pololist, intensely green variety which achieves 0,5 m in height
• Pusch Norway spruce - a miniature variety that grows to just 0,3 m in height and slightly wider, it is distinguished by this, intense red cones appear at the ends of the shoots.

• Norway spruce Nidiformis - a nest form of a candle that grows up to approx. 0,5 m in height and 1 m wide
• Alberta Globe White Spruce - spherical variety, compact, live green growing up to approx. 0,4m in height and width
• Conica white spruce trees, Rainbows end, Sander blue, Laurin, Daisys white - conical, compact forms with different colored needles (depending on the variety) reaching from 0,7 do 1,3 m in height.
• Picolo balsam fir – black, vivid green form growing up to 0,5 m high and 1 m wide
• Korean Tundra Fir - dark green, very dense, semicircular form growing up to 0.4 m in height and 0.6 m in width
• Common yew Dawid - a narrowly columnar form with golden-yellow needles 1,3 m in height
• Sungold pea cypress - sulfur yellow, pillow-shaped form, stringy shoots
• Pea cypress Filifera Nana - similar to the previous one, only green and slightly more uplifted
• Pendula European Larch – crying form, produced as grafted on a stump
• European larch Kórnik – dense shoots, spiky, forming a sphere, usually produced in a pear shape as a small tree
• Western Thuja Danica - dense, light green thuja with a spherical shape, reaching 0.6 m in height and width
• Scaly juniper Blue star – spherical, steel-blue tinted form, outgrown specimens grow up to approx. 0,6 m in height and width
• Juniper scattered Nana - dense, intensely green, creeping form (ok. 10cm in height), often produced grafted on a stump (then it creates picturesque miniature trees)
• Common junipers Compresa and Sentinel - very narrow, soaring plants growing up to 1,5 m in height
• Golden carpet juniper – creeping plant (do 10 cm in height) with golden-yellow shoots
• Creeping juniper Limeglow - an intensely yellow juniper with a spreading habit, growing up to approx.. 0,3 m in height