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Home And Garden: As box turtle needs plenty of room and freedom, it is best main¬tained as a house and garden pet. If it is to be observed at school, place it in woodland habitat of a large terrarium (see Part II); keep it for a few days and then return it to freedom of home and garden. In home garden in natural range, provide area in garden where pet can bury itself for hibernation during winter.
That we sometimes over¬look. But like it or not (or as the majority do, enjoy it in moderation) most home-owners and renters must do some garden¬ing if they want a nice looking place to use and complement their homes. It is char¬acteristically American to seek best results with minimum trouble. To expect value for dollars expended. That's why planning is important. A well-conceived garden can save endless headaches in maintenance and do a tremendous amount for your home, making it more livable and enjoyable and very definitely adding to its cash value.See Also Madison Square Garden:Mix this with the top three or four inches of soil then sow the cover crop. If it is late summer or fall use winter rye (two quarts per 1,000 madison square garden feet). If spring use spring rye (two quarts per 1,000 madison square garden feet) or Canada field peas (two quarts per 1,000 madison square garden feet). If it is summer use soy beans (two quarts per 1,000 madison square garden feet), crim¬son clover (one pound per 1,000 madison square garden feet) or buckwheat (two quarts per 1,000 madison square garden feet).
Do you have a small yard to work in or something rather grander? Do you want a formal feel to your garden, or would you prefer something less geometrical, less orderly? Do you plan to spend a lot of time gardening or would you like a low-maintenance option? Is your backyard madison square garden, rectangular, or L-shaped, which gives you maximum opportunity for springing surprises? Does your garden take place on just the one level or are there two, or more, different levels to be exploited? Are you content with stone and cement, or do you hanker after something more adventurous? These are all questions that you need to ask yourself.
What follows over the next few pages is a number of different approaches to drawing up a garden plan. Take a look at these and see which of these gardens approximates most closely to the raw materials you have to play with, and which type of garden comes nearest to your chosen style.
Look upon these plans not as blueprints to be copied but as sources of inspiration. See what takes your fancy and let your imagination do the rest.
On The Other Hand See Cypress Gardens:The most popular hedging cypress gardens, Chama.ecypa.ris lawsoniana (Lawson cypress gardens), has rather ferny, green foliage and will make good hedges up to 1 Oft high. It's quick-growing, hardy and tolerates most soils. There are numerous varieties of this cypress gardens, some with lighter green foliage, some blue-green and some golden, all suitable for hedges either by themselves or in mixtures. Leyland cypress gardens, x Cupressocyparis leylandii, resembles Lawson cypress gardens but grows almost twice as fast.
A selection of good evergreen trees in¬cludes, in addition to those named under "shade trees" above, white fir, nordman fir, Nikko fir, douglas fir, engleman spruce, oriental spruce, white spruce, Norway spruce, Colorado blue spruce, white pine, Swiss stone pine, Austrian pine, red pine, Scot's pine, Japanese black pine, red cedar, sawara cypress gardens, Nootka cypress gardens, lawson cypress gardens, deodar cedar, Atlantic cedar, cedar of Lebanon, hem¬locks, arborvitaes, yews and hollies. • |
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