Could your home do with a little more garden landscaping? Probably so,
and that is a good thing. In fact you should be very excited about it
because there is nothing more fun than garden landscaping, it will get
your imagination working overtime and you will have a ball planting and
rearranging your plants and flowers.
While it is tempting to be carried away by the spectacular flowers of a particular tree, remember that the blooms are invariably short-lived. Instead, it is advisable to choose a tree primarily for its landscaping properties.
Many people choose trees for their private garden based on flower color and fruit. While both these are desirable ingredients in a garden, they are not necessarily the best grounds for preferring one species over another. A well-chosen landscaping tree is essentially one whose form, shape, size and leaf texture, provide shade and in visual terms, plays a specific and dominating role in the garden composition. Counter intuitive as it may be, flowers and fruit are better considered as a bonus and not as the most important, let alone the only criterion on which to base a decision.