• Garden as a Unit of Composed Plants

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  Mar 14
  by Adymn Dahlia

  Not all gardens can support the bulk of forest trees, yet it is still feasible to achieve a very satisfactory winter landscape in miniature. Various forms of Japanese Maple, Acer palmatum, even grown in pots will soon develop the mushroom-like, slightly windswept outline which makes them excellent plants for the heather or rock garden.

  For contrast I use a columnar conifer, erect, puritanically uncompromising as its bisects the horizontal lines. My favourite maple for this purpose is dissectum atropurpureum, which in addition to having an attractive rounded habit colours handsomely in the autumn.

  Wandering amongst them all is a yellow-flowered Clematis tangutica which is better used as ground cover than grown in the traditional way over a trellis.

  I see Sorbus decora nano (S. scopulina) every day in the summer, a shaft of green against the hills behind and in winter the branches exhibit the same fastigiate habit. This rowan is good value for the small garden as it rarely exceeds 15 ft. in height.

  Conifers play a dominant role in the second group which began with a specimen of Juniperus x media pfitzeriana and then had a Chamaecyparis pisifera plumosa aurea added for contrast with its yellow cone outline showing up well against the tiered grey-green of the juniper.

  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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