Hi Shelly, I would go for lollipop box as they tend to look neater and are easy to maintain. Olive trees are great but look a bit wispy.

Karen

Thanks Karen! I think I agree with you on that!!!!

Laurel might be worth considering too

Maybe small flowering trees, cheery or magnolia. Add some planters for more colour, planted with evergreens - hebes or hellebores would work well with flowering trees. Lots of the the plant works better than small numbers of lots of plants.

Just make sure that there is adequate drainage in the bottom of those planting pits before the trees go in. It's hard to see from the photos but it looks as if there is quite a bit of concrete and hardcore in there.

photinia would be good it's ever green and and has beautiful bright red leaves in spring we have two, one huge lollipop standard and a bush at either side of the gates the variety we have flowers as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photinia

lollipops all the way

Thanks everyone!!! All planted and very pleased!!

Looking good! You could underplant them with something now, or top dress the planting pockets with gravel to cut down on weeding and watering.

congrats!! good choice

Looks great.

It looks a very good start. Now think about adding more interest to the gravel, perhaps by interspersing the 'lollipop trees' with neat but interesting shrubs. These could be scented such as Sarcoccoca (winter scent), Daphne odora (spring scent)... And adding a border in front of the house with appropriate plants. I would need to now the orientation of the garden and whether the soil is alkaline/acid/neutral and clay/loam/sand/chalk before recommending plants. If you do not need to park a vehicle in front of the house, and with the right soil and aspect you could add a rectangular herb garden.

What a lovely house. Talk about curb appeal. Trees look great!