Pom-pom shaped small trees

[TheDragonslayer]

Originally Posted by buenos

I saw a few front yards with pom-pom shaped small trees or bushes. These had multiple branches (or multiple specimen planted in the same spot) and at the end of each branch there was a green spherical canopy. The whole thing was like 4-5 feet tall. I have seen it a few times around the city of San Jose here in California.

My problem is I cannot find out what type of tree or bush it was, and I cannot find anything similar on websites like Lowe's with local stock/delivery. I was searching for bonsai trees, juniper trees and others. I saw it on a few eastern European websites (in languages that I don't understand), but nothing in local US/California-based shops.

The other thing is, the same tree type in image search looks very different. Do they cut the canopy into spheres, or it grows like this?
For example the one on this website looks like it, but if I search for the same name I get results of trees looking very different:

This:
Ponuka rastlín - LANTANA-záhrady - design a realizácia záhrad
versus this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Pinu...w=1252&bih=715
look different.


So what type of tree is it, or how do they make it look like this?

Since you are in the bay area with a nice moderate climate, try Australian tea trees, Leptospermum laevigatum, I take care of yards here and used to in the Oakland hills and they are often used in topiary to create ball shaped trees or umbrella shaped trees. Get one with plenty of branch spread and isolate the growth on the branches to the tips and over time keep trimming that growth back till it maintains the shape of pompoms, the bonus is that tea trees like to bloom on cut foliage's regrowth and timing can force the pom poms to bloom, they come it whites, reds, pinks and combo's.