The Gardener's Materials
The landscape gardener has a rich palatte for his composition. From trees, to shrubs, climbers and perennials, here we endeavour to review some of the possibilities. Here are the raw materials and a few cautions and comments.
Contents
- A Select List of Trees – In all large plantings there should be included a number of specimen trees, so placed as to show their individual good qualities, and so grown as to possess those good qualities in the greatest measure. For all these reasons the selection of suitable trees becomes one of the landscape gardener’s first and most important duties.
- The Best Shrubs – Shrubs are indispensable in all systems of gardening, and a study of the species and varieties at command must be the first business of the gardener. The following list is not at all complete, but is meant to include the hardier and more useful kinds.
- Hardy Perennials – Hardy perennials may be used in almost any situation where plants are wanted at all. They may grow under the trees, among the shrubs, in rockeries, along the borders of ponds and rivulets, on sloping banks, in borders by themselves, in shade or sun; in fact, it is very hard to go amiss with them unless, indeed, they are put into flower beds.
- The Indispensable Annuals – While it is possible to find many pleasant gardens without trees and shrubs and perennials, the annuals are omnipresent. Their great variety, their adaptability to all needs and circumstances, the innumerable, characteristically beautiful ways they have of expressing themselves, make them always indispensable.
- A Few Bulbous Plants – Bulbous plants have in general the same requirements and the same capabilities as the herbaceous perennials. Many of them will live untended in the open border quite without protection, and thrive and blossom year after year. Some require winter protection, but all of those named here will last without replanting for several or many years.
- Climbers – When buildings are introduced, and fences have to be dealt with, and other more unsightly objects need amelioration or concealment, the climbers are indispensable. In the shading and adornment of porches they play no insignificant part in the list of the gardener’s materials.
- The Gardener’s Materials – The landscape gardener has a rich palatte for his composition. From trees, to shrubs, climbers and perennials, here we endeavour to review some of the possibilities. Here are the raw materials and a few cautions and comments.
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