Landscaping: The Concept of Foundation Planting
The special planting set close to the house is called foundation planting and has great importance since it improves and enhances the proportions of your house as well as relates the house to the grounds. Evergreens are widely used for foundation planting not only because they can thrive in the shade of the house, but because of their year-round good looks. If you have not used evergreens elsewhere, though, it can be a mistake to suddenly use them at the foundation. The contrast will be too sharp; the evergreens are apt to look forbidding.
There remains a wide choice of flowering shrubs, dwarf fruit trees, roses and cushion chrysanthemums that will lend color to your foundation design in spring, summer View the rest of this article
Friday, November 23, 2007
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