Evergreens, this is quite a plant choice, cause it looks beautiful no matter what the season. Even in the bleakest winter, the garden looks like a garden—thanks to the conifers. Evergreen conifers can be useful in almost any garden design. You could used it as privacy screens or foundation plantings, as backgrounds for flower borders, as specimens, and as accents in the smallest rock gardens or at the edge of vast forests.
The first step in creating a conifer-rich planting is deciding how big to make the garden. Select conifers to complement its size. Small gardens or rock gardens work with small, slow-growing, dwarf or miniature trees. Larger gardens can accommodate intermediate-sized or large trees. Never allow a garden’s size to be the sole determining factor in selecting plants and also consider the role the planting will play. A wide privacy screen requires large trees, even if the planting area is relatively small. And in even the biggest rock gardens, a full-sized tree looks out of place.
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