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Ginkos in my experience tend to grow straight up and really don’t take well to having the main leader pruned and end up going weird, top heavy and then failing just below the points where they were pruned.
They’ve become popular as a low-maintenance street tree in cities: plant them, let them do their thing for 5-10yrs then replace. Much cheaper than trying to maintain limes and planes long term.
No doubt there are varieties that handle pruning better but all the ones I’ve seen react really poorly to it.
I’d grow one in a bit pot and just replace it when it gets unruly.
Amelanchier lamarckii(and Amelanchier in general) is the tree I always recommended for small gardens for years. Beautiful foliage and blossoms, easily pruned and shaped, available on dwarf root stocks.
Ginkos are cool as fuck tho...