Landscape Trees ? 4 Excellent Species For A Private Mediterranean Climate Garden
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008While 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.