The Garden Planner

Here are a few tips (in bullet-point form) for planting, including suggestions for container plants, large shrubs, perrenials climbing plants, trees and more!

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Trees add height and structure to a garden design as well as giving other benefits such as providing shade, privacy and a sense of sound and motion. The following are small to medium sized garden trees that should be available fairly easily.

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Perhaps the largest of all the permanent plants that you might try growing in a container are trees. The idea may be rather more ambitious than you had contemplated, but if you have a yard with no plant beds or a basement garden – even a large, open patio – height is important. It can be achieved with climbers around walls and on fences but in a pen position a small, graceful tree makes a superb centrepiece.