The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-04
BANK THE HOUSE
| WITH SHRUBBERY
perfunctory Planting of
This and That Not AL
ways Pleasing
MUST USE JUDGMENT
Iolns to Make a Home Home
like and Adds to Joy and
Pleasure of Living

y fIlM. iiA AaENs q
- houses were built without
,4,ttons there would be no need
nlants around the base TO tie
to the ground. The average
T. however, needs a mnssing or
f,,bs TO unity It with the turf and
- Il appear like permanent
.nc,uro and not something which
~ slmply been dropped there for
4 temporary stay. 1t Is easy enouEh
IL test the correctness OF this state
1ent by looking first at IA house
kbtcb ia devoid OF planting ana
ihen comparing 1t with another
S,N,ch has been banked with shrub
H.. especially IL the planting has
feen well done.
4 Admitting, then. that planting
1roupd the base of house helps to
4aAe homo homclikc, ANA adds TO
H. low of the owner, let US sec what
lhrubs are available for the purpose
9bo list as any nurseryman' cata-
tgue will show us, is a long one. but
N il easy to see that n first choice
%iI include those kinds which have
fbem as our intimate companions
HE year round.
4 Gcomctric Effects Undesirable.
4 Some people think, unfortunately,
lha. they are doing the correct
ihng when thcy buy mixed lot OF
lyergreens and set them out at reg
&lar intervals across the front or the
Aouse. These evergreen plants may
1o,k pretty enough at first, but in
be course OF few years they are
kf,und TO grow much too large for
cir location. Yet there is dis
net advantage in using evergreens
Nor banking the house, because or
Ahelr beauty in winter as well as in
3ummcr. II may be said in passing
I. hat the evergreeus cost rather more
Ahan declduous shrubs. but that fact
knay be offset by their value as year
bound specimens.
j Among the good kinds TO use arc
Ahe Japanese yew, tho low growing
Bumpers, rhododenrons, mahonias,
Aeucothoc cataesbaei, retinOsperas,
3(Japanese cypress,) countain laurel
gapanese holly. OleX crenata) and
Ahe inkberry. Very likely you will
snot need all of these plants because
hnost OF them make spreading
3growth and soon cover a wide area.
The retinosperas are different. They
Anake a narrow, upright growth and
asO may be uSe0 as accents LOT lu'
planting scheme. They grow particu-
flarly well between windows and har-
monizc with almost any evergreen
planting.
4 The yews II left to themselves may
,grow too tall, but can be kept cut
pack and are TO be used when foliage
about six feet high is desired. There
5s also dwarf Japanese yew, known
hs Ta&us brevifolia. which is almost
hs handsome as lockwood, and grows
kery slowly. For a specimen at each
fide of the entrance, or perhaps at
Nhe corners of the house, you can
Fuse mugho pine, an interesting low
.$growing round evergreen that looks
s}like big pin cushion.
Finally you will need the running
8plant known as paGhysandra, which
fwll evetnually carpet the ground
sunder the shrubs and which keeps
It's leaves all the year round. The
use OF pachysandra should not be
tconfincd to evergreen paintings
either In fact It can often be used
TO even better advantage whore deci'
q duous shrubs are employed, adding
much to their winter effect.
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