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Clumps Shrubs: Regard the lot as an outdoor room or series of rooms. Hedges, fences, trees and other natural or artificial objects that limit views are the walls of these rooms. Specimen trees and shrubs or small clumps shrubs of them are major pieces of furniture, lawns and groundcovers are carpets, and flower beds are the pictures and show pieces that give color, life and individuality to the decorative scheme.
Grass, growing in the shade of trees and shrubs, has to compete with them for food as well as moisture. Relieve the pressure of this competition by providing for the needs of the trees and shrubs as •well as the grass. Fertilize the lawn regularly and also the trees and shrubs. So far as possible, place the fertilizer intended especially for the trees and shrubs deep in the soil so that their roots are encouraged to strike downward. This may be done by using the method described below. Fertilizer intended primarily for the grass is applied at the surface.
In early spring the mountain pinks, rock jasmine (Androsace vil-losa), species tulips, miniature daffodils, mountain asters, and various saxifrages are in bloom. By late June the potentillas, Polygonum affine 'Donald Lowndes', and some dwarf and mat-forming penstemons share space with clumps shrubs of free-seeding alpine poppies (often sold under the name of Papaver alpinum). The end of July finds large and healthy clumps shrubs of Teucrium Chamadedrys full of blooms and buzzing with bees. |
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