I try to consider my garden as a unit composed of plants, animals, birds and insects rubs in addition to providing color also supply food for the birds in the form of berries. One of the most graceful of all small pendulous rubs is the evergreen Cotoneaster salicifolius ossus. The narrow leaves are dark shiningon large drooping stems and in autumn it is light with a mass of deep red berries. By Christmas the berries have all gone, and only - shrub's elegance remains to delight the gardener.
As a contrast I included a Berberis gracilis nana which for two years sat like a vegetable owl, but now has taken a fresh interest producing each April a most creditable crop of yellow flowers. Another berberis, verruculosa, is 30 in. high, a dome of hard green leaves which are silvered beneath.
Conifers make all the difference to a winter escape. There are varieties of all sizes from use suitable for growing in a window-box to the largest suitable for property many acres in tent. Remember, however, that it is easy to err plant and render the landscape formless. All mention only two groupings as examples of hat for me are meant by garden silhouettes. The groupings like so many other garden features are with one shrub, a specimen of Chamaecyris pisifera plumosa, conical in outline and with very green foliage.
Cornus canadensis is not I suppose in the strict sense of the word a shrub as it dies back to soil level each year. I planted this along the beech hedge which borders one side of the plot, and now from a carpet of leaves it is starred with white flowers from late spring through to mid-summer. I also get the clustered heads of scarlet fruits.
Trees of pendulous outline are available in bewildering diversity, from the beech or weeping willow to the miniature charms of a standard- grown Cotoneaster hybridus pendulus, so it is relatively easy to suit most soils and situations. The birch, naturally pendulous, includes two elegant weeping varieties in Betula pendula youngii, a dome-shaped small tree, and the primly graceful B. pendula tristis which develops a neat symmetrical head, needing only a small area in which to grow.
The composition of this piece of garden took my ingenuity to the utmost but gave me infinite pleasure also. Now, as it matures, I look for t other ways to improve it, for such is the essence of gardening, changeless yet ever changing.
As a contrast I included a Berberis gracilis nana which for two years sat like a vegetable owl, but now has taken a fresh interest producing each April a most creditable crop of yellow flowers. Another berberis, verruculosa, is 30 in. high, a dome of hard green leaves which are silvered beneath.
Conifers make all the difference to a winter escape. There are varieties of all sizes from use suitable for growing in a window-box to the largest suitable for property many acres in tent. Remember, however, that it is easy to err plant and render the landscape formless. All mention only two groupings as examples of hat for me are meant by garden silhouettes. The groupings like so many other garden features are with one shrub, a specimen of Chamaecyris pisifera plumosa, conical in outline and with very green foliage.
Cornus canadensis is not I suppose in the strict sense of the word a shrub as it dies back to soil level each year. I planted this along the beech hedge which borders one side of the plot, and now from a carpet of leaves it is starred with white flowers from late spring through to mid-summer. I also get the clustered heads of scarlet fruits.
Trees of pendulous outline are available in bewildering diversity, from the beech or weeping willow to the miniature charms of a standard- grown Cotoneaster hybridus pendulus, so it is relatively easy to suit most soils and situations. The birch, naturally pendulous, includes two elegant weeping varieties in Betula pendula youngii, a dome-shaped small tree, and the primly graceful B. pendula tristis which develops a neat symmetrical head, needing only a small area in which to grow.
The composition of this piece of garden took my ingenuity to the utmost but gave me infinite pleasure also. Now, as it matures, I look for t other ways to improve it, for such is the essence of gardening, changeless yet ever changing.
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Gardener can grow plants in roof, in doorways, on sidewalks, in hanging baskets, on the fire escape, or in window boxes in your urban garden.
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