Landscaping - Gardening

Landscaping a small property is not a commercial business any more than is furnishing a home.

As the objects within the home reflect the needs of those who live with them, so should the landscaping be built around plants well known and loved by the owners.

Yet how seldom this happens, and what an impossible dream for the first dozen years or more of gardening. Only time sifts the favourite plants from the hundreds grown, seen, or otherwise known. Of those favourites perhaps no more than a handful can be accommodated on the property.

Probably the first thought in the mind of the amateur home landscaper must be to use a minimum number of trees and shrubs. You can think of a half dozen trees you would like? Reduce your choice to one, and let it be one which will not dominate the landscaping but will be a part of the whole design. In a year or so you will find a place for another tree, perhaps smaller in stature but equal in beauty.

And thinking of trees, and shrubs too, consider their appearance in winter as well as in spring, summer and fall. A deciduous tree in winter may contribute equal beauty with its pattern of bare branches as when in flower or fruit. When a tree is chosen as a candidate for your garden design try to find a winter picture of its bare branch outline and general habit if you are not already familiar with it in all seasons.

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