Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-26
GARDENS OF TODAY
PLANNED FOR YEAR
Present Landscaping to In
CIude All Seasons Instead
of Early Summer.
BY ELLEN EDDY SHAW.

Do you remember that years ago in
old-faShioned gardens and upon estates
shrubs were planted after this fashion
either as an individual shrub, like
the lilac, underneath some convenient
window of the house; or in clumps
upon the lawn in round beds? These
methods of planting as such are past,
and people now look at shrubs as a
part of the landscaping effect of their
whole grounds.
The grounds as a whole represent a
picture and this picture is enhanced
in Val1e by bloom from earliest Spring
to latest Fall and then throughout the
Winter by interesting fruit vessels and
evergreens. So the year round the
grounds are alive and interesting, while
years ago after the early Summer pc
Rod there was nothing interesting
about the picture. In choosing shrubs
for the home grounds, one chooses
them then from this point of view,
that is, the point Of view of interest,
spectacular effect. and becoming a part
of the general picture Therefore, one
would like Spring shrubs for beauty of
early bloom, Summer ones for bloom
and leaf structure, and Fall and Winter
ones for fruit.
Appropriate Shrubs.
All who have journeyed to Bermuda
remember that shrub called match me
if you can" with leaves so colored and
so varied in shape that it would be very
difficult to match any two leaves.
So let us consider what shrubs might
be interesting for our grounds whether
they be small or large, city or country.
First let us consider shrubs in re-
spect to bloom. One Of the earliest
blooming of all is that beautiful for
sythia, or yellow bell, which appears in
many gardens. 1t is always lovely
wherever it is. 1t may be used as
specimen shrub that is, planted all by
itself and makes a lovely mass of yell
lowlike sunshine in earliest Spring.
One advantage of the forsythia is that
it may be left good many years with
out any pruning, or 1t may be thinned
out every third year, or cut back each
year when it is through blooming. This
shrub forms very long whips through
out the Summer which send out bloom
the following Spring. AS a specimen
shrub, it had better be left unpruned
for some time.
Chokeberry, Aroma arbutifolia, which
has white bloom with tinges of red,
blooms from April into May, and an
other white blooming shrub one may
choose for early bloom is Black Haw
or Stagbush, Viburnum prunifolium.
North Side Trying.
For bloom a little later in the year
one may choose hawthorne (Cratae-
gus and mountain laurel. Perhaps
there is a north side of the house that
needs a bank of shrubbery. The north
side of any house is a trying side to
landscape Mountain laurel and rhodo-
dendron banked in such places will
give fine bloom through May and June,
and with these two one may have all
ranges of color.
Running into June, there is mock
orange, sweet elder and arrowwood.
For July bloom we have the dogwoods,
sweet elder and sheep laurel.
For Fall shrubs one should choose
those with interesting fruiting effects,
such as Hercules club, barberry, wax
berry and Rosa rugosa Cfor its rose
hips).
We may also consider shrubs from
another point of view, that is, whether
we should use them merely in border
planting, or throughout the grounds.
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