16°~ Friday, September’26, 1986 ~ North Shore: News!

NO SPOT TOO SMALL
Enjoy patio gardens
throughout the year

DO YOU ever envy thase people
living on two-acre estates or in res-
idences with half-acre plots and
wish you had that kind of room to
express your urge for an attractive
landscape? Take heart!

Even if your family is in a
townhome with a postage-stamp-
sized yard, or a condominium or
apartment with small balcony, you
can discover the pleasure of plants
in your environment with a little
imagination and, perhaps, some
help from the professionals at your
favorite nursery or garden centre.

Such innovations as dwarf
varieties of plants and containeriz-
ed trees and shrubs offer the no-
yard-at-all gardener some avenues
for creativity on a balcony or in-
doors. Carefully designed patios

and decks offer the small-space
gardener a diversity of options for
an attractive, livable landscape.

Evergreens and flowering shrubs
provide privacy screening to
townhouse dwellers, ground covers
allow for easy maintenance, and
potted plants give seasonal color.

The same rules of landscaping
:hculd apply to small spaces as
farge areas. You'll still want to
harmonize colors, shapes, and tcx-
tures.

The difference, of course, is in
the size landscape of the plantings.
Avoid the tendency to put a land-
scape designed for a half-acre in

your twenty-by-thirty foot yard.

With the help of your nursery you
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