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Simple Landscape Design Ideas

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Simple Landscape Design Ideas

Landscaping design can be made easy if you adopt a basic landscape design which can be applied to just about any house and actually the overall scheme repeated on different sides of the same house by just switching out the plants.

A Canadian hemlock has been planted on the corner of this porch. It is considered a specimen plant because the hemlock has been planted by itself and then accented with smaller plants. The Canadian Hemlocks in a landscape are easy to keep trimmed to just about any size you want them to be. Consider letting them get as tall as you can reach without a ladder and then maintain that size simply by removing the new growth once each season.

On a corner plant like this, select something in shades of dark green on the back side of the planting, maybe Taxus Densiformis or in this case boxwood.

On the front side, go for a brighter leafed plant like the Gold Thread Cypress. They are bright yellow in color and contrast well against the boxwood and the hemlock. The Gold thread Cypress are an evergreen and very easy to maintain to a reasonable size.

Directly in front of the porch there are four PJM Dwarf Rhododendron, two on each end. Then placed in front of those, planted in an arc, are some Crimson Pygmy Barberry. This is a newer variety known as Bagatelle which has a variegated leaf. The idea of this arrangement is to allow the Rhododendrons to grow taller than the barberry while keeping them trimmed, and provide a backdrop for the barberry. 

Consider using the same design scheme with some different plants like China Boy and China Girl Holly.

At the corner of the walk is a Red Weeping Japanese maple, another specimum plant, and under the maple a few Green Mound Juniper. Bordering the walk is Variegated Lirope which is a great plant for bordering a sidewalk.



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