18 - Friday, May 18, 1990 - North Shore News

Garden, landscaping
Increases home value

MAY IS National Garden Month
in Canada and federal Agriculture
Minister Don Mazankowski has
endorsed it, saying, ‘‘l am par-
ticularly pleased to see that work-
ing for a clean environment is
among the themes being promoted
by the Canadian Garden Council.
Conservation of our national
resources is critical to the long-
term health and quality of Cana-
dian life. We all share a responsi-
bility to ensure that basic resources
are available to pass one to future
generations.”’

On the other hand, the contribu-
tions made to our environment are
not the main reason Canadians
spend $2.54 billion annually on ex-
terior landscaping. There are at
least two others. One is the esthetic
considerations; the other is the

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ability of good landscaping to in-
crease substantially the value of
the home it enhances and
beautifies.

Well-designed houses, located
on appropriately-sized lots, realize
a 1S per cent increase in home
value or selline price when nicely
landscaped. And, on an average,
subdivision home, the recovery
value of dollars spent on plants
and landscaping is 100 to 200 per
cent compared to only about 40 to
70 per cent for a similar investment
in a new deck or patio.

What type of plants should you
invest in? First and foremost, if
you are just beginning, either with
a new house, or a re-sale, consider
the shade first. Deciduous trees
such as ash, birches, most maples
and lindens will eventually grow
into large trees, providing major

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home.

Evergreens such as spruce and
pine, except the dwarf forms, will
do the same, but the shade (though
usually of a lesser nature, tree for
tree, than deciduous types) will be
present in the winter as well.

Smaller trees, on the other hand
will provide more confined areas
of shade.

Other planting for May could
include a hedge for privacy; for
example, deciduous alpine currant
and nannyberry which lose their
leaves, or evergreen cedar. Flower-
ing and foliage shrubs are available
in a vast array of attributes from
which to choose.

They are useful along property
lines anu fences as a background
for flower borders of annuals or
perennials.

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