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Whether you are buying a new home or improving an old one, your outdoor environment represents one of the greatest values associated with the house. New methods of gardening can make the task of beautifying your surroundings much easier than in the past. By improving the grounds of your house, you will be able to take advantage of the new ways of living that having a liveable outdoor space brings. Lawn furnishings and barbeques are just the beginning of backyard luxury.

In architectural terms, the house of today represents a greater part of the outdoors than a house in the past. Most houses have large picture windows, glass walls or glassed-in rooms, and terraces that make the garden an integral part of the house. Therefore, the view from the house becomes more important than ever before. A beautiful lawn and garden with healthy trees add much to the interior space of your house.

When planning to improve your grounds you must consider several principles of design: proportion, color, texture, line, harmony, and function. These same principles apply to both interior and exterior decorating. If you are blessed with large grounds, you will benefit from extra careful planning. There are many garden books available to help you select just the type of garden and grounds you want. You need to choose one that will fit in with your physical location and the needs of your family, however. It is best to design the grounds by factoring in the familys needs and habits.

Unless you have a lot of room, you are unlikely to put everything you want into your garden plan, but you can make improvements on a gradual basis. You can plan a garden so that something is always in bloom or leafing out, while saving space for future additions. Some landscaping projects will have more than one purpose as well. A driveway, for example, can provide a place to ride a bicycle and park the card. A retaining wall can serve as a rock garden when it is planted with dwarf shrubbery.

In general, grounds are divided into a public area, a service area, and a private area. The public area can be seen from the street and its landscaping should be planned to require minimal care. The service area is where the parking, laundry, and storage facilities are located and should be planned for efficiency. The private area is where you will do your living, dining, and playing. The largest part of your grounds should be reserved for the private area, and this where you will put your flowers and take advantage of existing trees and shade.

Making changes to a landscape can be never-ending, but it is an activity that can be both beautifying and gratifying. It makes a home more luxurious and gives pleasure to all who see it.

For the Sixteenth year running Tree Tops Caravan Park in Gwespyr has won the prestigious Wales in Bloom competition. This is a massive achievement for this family run, 5 star Park.

A tremendous amount of planning and hard work by the head gardeners David and Christine Ball has gone into ensuring this fantastic win. We produce over 15,000 plants here on the Park from seeds, plugs and cuttings, these are added to the established landscaped gardens. The dazzling colours in the floral displays throughout the parks 15 acres are truly amazing and worth viewing. This truly is gardening on a grand scale!!

This year the organisers of the competition sent their most senior judge, Mr Knight. In his report he said “Despite other sites raising their standards, Tree Tops continues to provide the very highest standards and is awarded 1st place this year”.

Andrew Walker, General Manager commented “We are delighted to have won this competition again. We would like to thank our staff and customers for all of their help and hard work. The commitment required from our gardening team immense, but their efforts have truly paid off. Having the Wales In Bloom Senior Judge assessing the park this year was nerve wracking to say the least, but our small team have worked exceptionally hard this year to make sure the park was looking its best. Tree Tops covers 15 acres and our gardeners manage to produce all of the blooms in a few small greenhouse on the park and at the head gardeners home, even I’m amazed at the number of flower they turn out! It’s another great success for our family business and it’s thanks to our Head Gardeners David and Christine Ball, Mandy and Neil Cotterill our Wardens and Andy Luke our Grounds man.”

This is one of many awards Tree Tops has won, including the David Bellamy Gold Award and the Green Apple award which both recognise the parks commitment to the environment, native species and their habitat. We also won “Best Tourism Business In Flintshire” for 2007/08, this was awarded to us by Flintshire Count Council in recognition of our contribution to the local economy and community.

Tree Tops attracts visitors from North Wales, the North West, the Midlands and beyond.

For more information on the this story please contact Andy Walker or Maureen Walker on 01745 560279 or visit our Web site at www.treetopscaravanpark.co.uk

If you are keen into gardening and landscaping, love plants and working outdoors, you may consider enter the business. Those who aren’t into gardening may think that working in this area means digging up and putting nice plants in place, but in fact, there are many jobs available into the landscaping business. But, above all, what all these jobs have in common is the love for outdoors work, under any type of weather.

There are several job opportunities in this field: from trimming and mowing the lawn, to sell plants and other related items, to design simple gardens to get involved into devising large and intricate landscaping projects. Any of these jobs will require your creativity and a passion for outdoor work and nature.

Starting From The Bottom

There are plenty of job opportunities to start off and get experience in the field. You can get a position within a landscaping company. You’ll start off as planting guy, one of the hardest tasks in the landscaping business. It involves planting flowers and other plants in gardens and parks. It’s the best way to get started and see if you have what it gets to work in this business, although it’s not very well paid.

In case you have some botany education you may get a more comfortable position. There are places such as colleges, parks, etc, where they need someone to take care of their garden, replanting and designing. Since this is a freelance type of job, you can also devote time to create a nursery or greenhouse and sell plants and flowers.

A traditional gardening practice which is getting very popular now, is truck gardening. Truck gardening is quite popular now because most of them is organic and restaurants are very keen on buying organic produce from local farmers. It requires a lot of hard work, especially if you want to have a steady produce all year long, which is essential if you want to keep regular customers happy.

Where can you study?

To get training into the landscaping field, the best thing is to get a hands-on job, but you’ll find it difficult to scale up and get better positions if you’re not trained and specialized. Taking care of plants requires education and training, and specialized, skilled professionals are quite sought after in the job market.

You can find gardening and landscaping courses or degrees in different ranges according to what you like doing. Depending on what you choose, you may study for a couple of years at least. If you intend to put up your own business as well, you should get info on how to run a business.

Everybody that goes to Vancouver to visit ends up going to Victoria on Vancouver Island. It is a great place to go with lots of history. And the best thing to see and do in Victoria is Butchart Gardens.

If you like flowers, you will love this place. It is simply amazing. It is the best flower garden I have even been to. It has more roses than several of the worlds best known rose gardens. It has flowers of all types, of different climates, and they are all beautiful. Of course when we went they were all in bloom. The best time to go is in the summer months of June- August.

Covering 55 acres, Butchart Gardens began with an idea by Jeannie Butchart to beautify a worked-out limestone quarry which had supplied her husbands nearby cement plant. Through the skillful mixture of rare and exotic shrubs, trees, and flowers, often personally collected by the Butcharts during their world travels, the now famous Sunken Garden was created. What started as a hobby and one garden grew into the Japanese, Rose and Italian gardens. By the 1920s more than 50 thousand people came every year. Now, over a million people visit the gardens every year.

My favorite was the Rose garden. A short walk through traditional perennial borders, covered by rose arches, leads to a frog fountain and to the right, a wishing-well of Italian wrought-iron. You then wander the garden with its lawn surrounded by dwarf boxwood hedges and a flagstone walk. Many varieties of Hybrid Tea Roses are marked with country of origin and year selected b the American Rose Society. The path curves though and open pergola, the arches covered with climbing and arbour roses, and leads to the Sturgeon Fountain.

The Sunken Garden is also breathtaking. If you see any postcard of Victoria, and it has a picture of a garden on it, it will be of the Sunken Garden. And the garden is even more beautiful in person than in the postcards.

My husband is not a big garden person. And he was kind of wondering why we were paying so much to go see a garden. But when he got inside he fell in love with the place as well. If we had the time we would have spent all day there.

Inside the actual Butchart Gardens you cannot sit or walk on the grass. But right outside where the parking is there are the Mediterranean Garden and here you can sit and picnic on the grass or play Frisbee or whatever. There is even plenty of shade to relax for a nap.

During July and August they even have nightly fireworks displays that attract thousands of locals. You can sit on the lawn close to the Concert Stage and enjoy classical musical concerts during the day and fireworks at night. After dusk the gardens are illuminated by hidden lights that transform them into something else entirely. You have to see it for yourself to understand what I am talking about.

If you are in Vancouver, do yourself a favor and get to Butchart Gardens. You will remember it for the rest of your life.

Chandigarh is known as the garden city. It has a lot of gardens around the different section of the place. See some of them here.

Chandigarh is India’s well constructed city. Its architecture is world class and unparalleled, and offers a good quality of living conditions. This place is a dream project of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru and Le Corbusier. This is the very first planned city in India. It was rightfully named the “Beautiful City” because it is not just rich but also prosperous of spic and span and green nature. It definitely lives up to its branding.

The Chandigarh is also known as the Garden City of India. They have a wide collection of garden plants all well maintained. Cleanliness greatly adds beauty to the surroundings. The locals love to be in touch with nature and the cosmos and they manifest this by keeping their environment clean. The Chandigarh was even proclaimed the World’s Rock Garden and the Largest Rose Garden in Asia. Because of this, Chandigarh has always been in the list of favorite spots to visit around the world.

Rock Garden Chandigarh

This is the premier attraction in Chandigarh since 1958. It was created by Nek Chand Saini. This was formed out of the urban waste materials found in the city. These urban wastes include tin cans, bottles, plates, broken plugs and saucers. These materials were formed into beautiful textures and patterns. There were many materials were formed out of these wastes. The place has series of chamber but the first phase is a small canyon. The place has broken ceramics of human and animal form.

Chandigarh Botanical gardens

There were two botanical gardens in the place – Botanical Garden of Punjab University and another one between Rock Garden and Sukhna Lake. These botanical gardens are the main attractions of the place. The Punjab University Botanical garden is a place full of cacti and succulent plants. It has both evergreen and exotic plants. Lotus flowers are also abundant.

The Botanical garden between Rock Garden and Sukhna Lake has rare species of plants and pools of small lilies. This is a big garden with a total area of 88 acres. There is one botanical garden still to be developed up to now. It also grows trees that offer medicinal value and indigenous species of plants.

Chandigarh Bougainvillea Park

This is one garden where you can find all varieties of bougainvillea flowers. This was created in 1976. There are 65 varieties of bougainvillea in this place. This also has creepers that contain collection of arches, pavilions, bowers and arcades. This place has been famous because of the bougainvillea show held here annually.

Fitness Trail and Flower Garden

This is created mainly for physical fitness in 1965. Now it has been transformed to a very beautiful garden, with many gorgeous seasonal flowers to see. There are also wonderful sculptures adorned throughout the area that adds to the relaxing ambiance. This garden offers scenic beauty with the natural combination of physical exercise and beauty.

Garden of Fragrance

This is another garden that draws a big number of guests everyday. It offers plants with sweet fragrances and aroma. It houses varieties of jasmine, Haar Shingar, motia, Raat ki rani, demask roase, Champa and mehndi. This place has a nice picnic spot for you to enjoy. People can do work out in here because there are also tracks placed in the garden.

Chandigarh is definitely second home to nature lovers.

Everyone has a different idea about the best approach to garden landscaping. Canadians and North Americans may consider colonial layout the “classical” gardening landscape. Old-world types may prefer the use of Greco-Roman styles and statuary as the centerpiece in their gardening landscape. Others will consider the charm and elegance from the well-known gardens in Tuscany to be the standard classical gardening landscape.

Even with largely differing opinions, and they are just opinions, few gardeners argue against the traditional formal rose garden as The Classical gardening landscape. Kings and queens of old Europe, and their aristocratic hangers-on, much preferred the formal rose garden for their romantic dalliances and high teas. The rose garden has long been a favorite spot for relaxing, entertaining, and soaking up the sensual fragrances of this most popular flower.

A truly classic formal rose garden should be completely symmetrical, each side mirroring the other, with plenty of lawn areas separating the well laid-out beds. Garden beds should follow classic lines and curves, even creating an image or design. Surrounding the garden with neatly trimmed evergreen hedges is a wonderful way to frame the classic rose gardening landscape. A bluestone patio adorns one end of the rose garden, balanced by a reflecting pool set within more bluestone at the opposite end. Evenly-spaced stepping stones or an elegant stone path connects the two ends and provides a way for visitors to enjoy the garden without trampling the neatly trimmed lawn.

For many gardening landscape enthusiasts, the classic sundial is the perfect centerpiece or focal point to the garden, although an elegant foundain or birdbath might also add the desired effect. Your focal point should be circled by a small hedge and stepping stones or stony path so that visitors can take their time and enjoy this point of interest as they take in the wonderful sights and fragrances surrounding them.

Other smaller pathways radiate out from the focal point to lawn areas with benches and lawn chairs or trellises and pergolas providing support for lovely flowering vines and shade for lingering to read or meditate in this peaceful environment. These additions are placed so that stone paths or stepping stones form a large cross that divides the garden into even quarters. Benches aside the reflecting pool are accompanied by rose planters, and more planters of roses lend decoration to the patio at the other end. The patio is framed by trellises and flowering vines on either side.

On the sides of the classic garden are three oval-trimmed trees, complimented at their base by beds of blooming flowers. In the early spring, these flowers add color to the garden while the young roses blossom. In the fall, the blooms compliment the fading roses and maintain interest in the classic gardening landscape. Evergreens line the back of the classical gardening landscape, and each corner is highlighted by a neatly-trimmed evergreen to give visual balance.

The classical gardening landscape’s hallmark is its sense of order, peace, and comfort. Accented by cobbled paths, its lines are strong and symmetrical, their impact softened by the delicate rose blooms and vined overhead arbors. You’ll find many examples of classical gardening landscape at historic locations like the Biltmore in North Carolina or other Vanderbilt estates in New York and New Jersey. Hartford, Connecticut, boasts a world-famous rose garden at Elizabeth Park. Of course, America’s White House hosts a world-famous rose garden as well. Fort Worth’s Botanic Garden in Texas is proud of its lower and oval rose gardens, exhibiting all the elements of classic gardening landscape.

European rose gardens display true classic gardening landscape. Castle Howard and Mottisfont Abbey in England are well worth the time if you’re visiting Great Britain. The Roseraie de Bagatelle in Paris houses over 9000 plants of over 1000 varieties. The Roseraie de la Cour de Commer in Normandy, France, contains over 40 unique roses that exist nowhere else in the world. The Roseto Botanico di Cavriglia “Carla Fineschi” near the town of Cavriglia in Tuscany, Italy, contains representatives of each of the subgenera, sections, and classes of the genus Rosa.

He State of Virginia has adapted the dogwood pinnacle ranking as its State hierarchy, and many cities in America have named themselves ‘The Dogwood City.’ Atlanta, Georgia holds a skip festival every April to coincide with the pinnacle of the of the dogwood plants in Atlanta, Georgia. The Dogwood Festival has constant for 70 being, successfully attracting visitors for measures such as outside musical extravaganzas in Piedmont Park and the attraction of many artists to exhibit and vend to those visitors who fancy to buy earthen, statue, oil paintings, and photographs.

Flowering dogwood foliage, Cornus florida, were discovered in the South by William Bartram in 1773; the foliage were beautifully described in his exploratory book, Travels (page 399). Near Mobile, Alabama. Bartram encountered a coppice of dogwood grass that aggressively enclosed a sphere 9 miles long. The dogwood grassed were budding so thick that sunlight was practically debarred, and almost all other lodge life was barred excepting for an occasional colorless zenith Magnolia grandiflora. The land on which the pasty peak dogwood ranking grew was direct soil that was freed with a sticky black organic mould on the ascend with dogwood roots emergent into a stiff yellowish soil. The limbs of the pinnacle dogwood foliage were interlocking and spread horizontally at a hierarchy height of 12 feet. The limitless interlocking limbs of the dogwood grass covered the entire section as a shade hierarchy that cooled the camping area used by William Bartram. After exploring for another seventy miles, Bartram wrote “roomy groves of this payment zenith ranking, which must, in the mechanism flavor, when covered with blossoms, submit a most enjoyable commotion; when at the same time a variety of other lovable bushes strut their beauty.

The fair peak dogwood is a native ranking to the forests of America and has been exported worldwide as a sprout dogwood and as a grafted ashen dogwood also acme in pink and red. The pink peak dogwood is existing to buy as a seed adult ranking, but the most popular, durable, predictable pink dogwood leaves are playgroup grafted plants. Red acme dogwood leaves are not available as sapling foliage, but as grafted cultivars, such as the Cherokee Chief, red zenith dogwood hierarchy.

The dogwood ranking, Cornus florida, is very adaptable in America, ranging from Massachusetts to Florida, and the ranking is commonly grown as an understory hierarchy 12-15 feet tall, though some old specimens of 40 feet tall are recorded. The acme dogwood ranking refine for planting and rising in a small garden or in large parks and as big landscape specimen plants. Dogwood has the unusual value of mounting well when planted beneath pout grass, where only a few other bushes such as redbud leaves, azalea plants, and camellia bushes can compete successfully, because of the dense nose sulk ranking competition near the ascend of the ground.

The pinnacle of dogwood leaves begins in early movement and the flowering lasts 2 to 3 weeks. Oval berries of quick red are formed next the blooms and persist on the grass into decrease and winter after leaves shed, and awaiting birds ate them and birds. In the fall the dogwood plants are covered in brilliant red leaves that change to purple. The fallen dogwood leaves are very fragile and typically simply deteriorate lacking raking. Flowering dogwood plants will grow well underneath oak ranking shade as well as under pine leaves, but the dogwood hierarchy remarkably will grow well in complete sun. Dogwood foliage was well adapted to stress and are very tolerant of dry season. Dogwood plants are tolerant of cold climate, and bloom in USDA zones 5 through 9.

Every landscape gardener appreciates the spiral blooms of the sallow flowering dogwood trees as a background companion hierarchy for flowering redbud trees or in a combination of flowering azalea shrubs in ensign of red, pink, purple, or fair.

Dogwood trees can be propagated by upward from the seed or by rooting the biting, but the best dogwood cultivars are grown from grafted trees. The Cloud Nine, flowering, sallow dogwood ranking produces very large (hand-amount) blooms, especially in the juvenile juncture. The Weaver’s Select, white, flowering dogwood tree is grafted and can emit a flower 6 inches extensive.

The dogwood treed has been thought to have been the woodland from which the crucifixion oppose of Jesus Christ was made in the year 33 AD. This worded is ridiculous in several greetings: first, there is not Biblical notation of dogwood trees in the Scriptures of the Old Testament Bible or the New Testament. Most hide references in the Bible are very nebulous except for a few references to the court palm tree, emerald tree, pomegranate trees, fig tree, and grape vines. The character of those plants and trees is apparent, because of their fruits that are twisted, but accurate place identity could not be done easily pending Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish surgeon, optional policy on naming plants in the early 1700’s.

There are many species of dogwood trees and shrubs, but it is dodgy that any of the Mideastern species of dogwood trees grew trunks large enough to mold into a crucifixion traverse. The copse of the dogwood tree is so hard and dense that nails ambitious into the copse would divide the coppice. That treed definitely could not have been the North American dogwood tree, Cornus florida, since that tree did not grow in Israel at the time of Jesus Christ.

Perhaps the purpose for the chitchat is that the dogwood tree was the coppice of the crucifixion obstruct is the fact that the four white bracts (flower) are shaped like a thwart. This resemblance of a white fractious-shaped flower occurs in innumerable species of flora of trees and, of course, should not be given any weight of sign of the dogwood tree wood being the substance of crucifixions by the Jewish High Priest and the Roman rulers.

When you buy a new house or decide to improve your old one, you are, of course, concerned with every foot of ground that goes with it, for modern living and modern gardening can make every inch of your property usable and desirable. New methods of soil improvement, grading, fencing and terracing make even sloping, hilly lots, hitherto undesirable, now attractive and choice.

Modern chemistry has brought new nutrients to the soil and has provided weapons against the traditional enemies of the garden: disease and insects. Hardier bulbs and seeds make gardens more successful as well as wonderfully vivid. Fabulous hybrids have lengthened the list of flowering trees and shrubs, creating specimens for every color and design scheme, every type of house and garden.

New gardening equipment and materials speed the time-consuming garden tasks. New ways of living bring us into the outdoors, and barbecue meals and comfortable lawn furnishings make a small suburban back yard as luxuriously enjoyable as was previously possible only on a large estate. Aesthetically pleasing as well, is the introduction of wall fountains (http://www.garden-fountains.com) and other beautiful outdoor water features.

Architecturally, today’s house is much more a part of the outdoors than was yesterday’s. Large picture windows, glass walls, glassed-in sun porches, and terraces all combine to make the garden a part of the house. Consequently, the view becomes that much more important. A beautiful garden, a luxuriant turf and healthy blossoming trees all add as much to the interior of your home as your draperies or wallpaper.

The effort and time you spend on your lawns and gardens will repay you in every way, indoors as well as out. When you plan your grounds you will be governed by many of the principles you employ in decorating your home. Proportion, texture, color, line, harmony, function-these are terms that apply to landscaping as well as decorating.

And if you have large grounds you will benefit from careful planning just as much as does the owner of a third of an acre. Garden books are filled with formal plans for perfect gardens and grounds, but you will want to consider not the perfect garden in itself, but the one plan that will be perfect for your particular family.

Analyze your family, its needs and habits; then design your grounds to best satisfy its prejudices, desires and demands. The thing to do is hold a family council and talk over what you want to do. Of course, you will be governed by questions of cost and available space. Draw a plan of about ¼ inch to the foot. Now make a list of the things the family wants, such as a barbecue, tool house, drying yard, rock garden, fences, wall mounted fountains (http://www.garden-fountains.com/Categories.bok?category=Wall+Fountains), fences, a playhouse, badminton court, or better lounging facilities.

Unless you are fortunate and have spacious grounds, you probably won’t be able to work everything into your program-but with planning, you can do things gradually. You can plan your garden so that it never looks bare and yet is always roomy enough for the additions you intend to make in the future. And some projects will serve more than one function.

For example, if you need a driveway and have young children, a blacktop that can be used for hopscotch and bicycle riding will serve a double purpose, and easily justify its cost. Or a fence that cuts off an unpleasant view can also act as a windbreak and a handsome background for a lounging area. A retaining wall can double as a rock garden when planted with hardy dwarf shrubs and other rock-garden species.

Generally, most grounds are divided in three ways: the public area, the area that can be seen from the street; the service area, which includes garage and parking facilities, delivery facilities, laundry equipment, outside storage space and garbage disposal; and the private area, located in the rear of the house. Here is your back yard, available for games and lounging; a terrace or outdoor dining area; the children’s playground and a garden with flowers, fruits, vegetables, walkways, water wall fountains and perhaps a pool.

In each division there are things to strive for-and to avoid. In your front, or public area, for example, plan for a minimum of care. Select flowers and shrubs that will help you present an attractive face to the passerby at all times without any undue fussing on your part, so that when you can’t manage to give as much time as you would like to your grounds, the front of your house will still be presentable. In your service area, plan for off-street parking; for deliveries that can be made without intrusion on the privacy of your lawn or terrace; for a drying yard that won’t be seen from the street.

For your private area, use the largest part of your plot; take advantage of existing trees and the shade afforded by your house and garage for lounging spots. Have seats in pleasant corners and screen off the children’s play areas from the rest of the garden.

Flowers are so lovely to look at throughout the day and people choose to decorate many interior spaces with them continuously because everyone that visits buildings and offices loves looking at them and will have many nice things to say about them when they are departing the buildings. Decorative flower displays are not simply for gift giving or for accenting home interiors either because people like seeing flowers in natural settings too.

Landscapers use flowers to compliment the exterior of buildings and recreational spaces around a home. Flowers seem to be the most popular choice among homeowners because they can be used as the finishing touch to new homes when they are planted on front walkways that lead into the home and the sidewalks that run along the street.

Many homeowners will invest a considerable sum in a large variety of flowering shrubs with which they can use to create natural fence lines that are very beautiful when spring arrives. The most popular flowering shrubs that people choose are azaleas because they are available in many shades and last many years before they will have to be replanted. These flowers are easy to take care of too which makes them a favorite of homeowners.

When decorating with flowers along highways and streets many State road maintenance crews choose to plant shrubs that will flower and bloom several times a year. Motorists enjoy passing through States that offer a lot of scenery and flowers are just as good as welcome mats when people cross state lines on vacation trips. Some vacationers are mystified by the variety of flowers that are planted along the road and will tell friends about them so that they can see them when they pass through.

There are many states that feature gardens that are tourists attractions. There are also many college students that enjoy the flowers and shrubs that are displayed in parks. Flowers offer a little bit of tranquility and privacy in a park and students can concentrate on studies and eventually fall to sleep amid the fragrant flowers that surround them. Families spend a lot of time at these parks and expose their children to the wonderful flowers that were God’s gift to us.

People choose to decorate their homes with flowers inside and out. Some flowers look marvelous when they are seated in vases of crystal and other flowers and vines look marvelous when they are floating in a fish pond. Some families create outdoor grilling areas that are surrounded by flowers and greenery galore because they want their friends and relatives to enjoy dining outside and being exposed to the fragrance of flowers everyday they come by.

Gift certificates can be sent by email instantly, by immediate fax or by mail on the date that you wish. A gift certificate is important for two very important reasons. First, the person who receives the gift certificate will cherish the thoughtfulness of your remembering and honoring an important occasion or holiday. Second, you can easily solve the problem of what to give, because a gift certificate will enable your loved ones to pick out exactly what they want to receive and plant, whether or not the gift is a flowers bulb, a tree or a shrub. Your loved one can choose exactly the plants that they want from the vast inventory listed on the The TyTy Nursery website. The person who receives your gift will think of you, the giver, when the amaryllis bulb flowers appear on the flower stalk, or as the peach harvest is gathered from the fruit tree, or as the giant oak tree shade spreads to cool their home or landscape garden. The pleasure and fun of growing plants increases as the trees grow older, or at a time when the fruit tree production feeds their family appetites, and their memory of you will grow as their garden experience matures, as they savor the delicious flavor of the freshest of peaches.

Many people are surprised, when they realize that a nursery tree can be shipped long distances. TyTy can ship any plant, even as mature as a 40 foot shade tree, at distances anywhere in the United States and have any plant delivered right up to the doorstep. Shipment is fast when plants are in season. Sometimes during our busy season a delivery can be received the next day after shipment. TyTy nursery can ship some plants all during the year, and on some other items such as dormant trees, the shipments begin in November or December and continue until mid-April.

A gift certificate for trees is popular and fruit trees, nut trees, shade trees and flowering trees are common trees for Holiday gifts such as Christmas. Shade Trees and Flowering Trees are important and appropriate plants to give and are shipped directly to your location, whether that is a church gardener or in some cases to the attention of a city parks director where many friends and relatives of the receiver can enjoy the continuing benefits of flowering trees, instead of the customary giving of flowers at the Cemetery of the funeral location. Memorial Garden plantings shade seating areas for the loved ones who may wish to recall their memories near the grave-stone garden and to meditate on the past. Pine trees are fast growing plants and the pine straw is valuable to use for weed control near the tomb stones.

Early Rural American cemetery plots were often located on farm land, where a family would establish eventually a sacred space to dig a grave at the woods edge. The family deceased members would be kept together and surrounded by the cooling breezes from the shade trees. As towns and church communities grew, a spot near the church would be carefully selected, and specific burial plots would be assigned to a family belonging to the church. A small fee for the plots would be paid to the church, and customarily the family members would take the responsibility for the future upkeep and planting of the trees and shrubs. Grass became fashionable in the Cemetery growing as lawns during the second world war. Eventually many of the church cemeteries ran out of space, and cities and private investors developed large Cemetery plots on the outskirts of towns. The National government developed Memorial cemeteries, where soldiers and nationally prominent citizens were laid to rest.

The development of a private cemetery meant that the owners must generate a profit by adding desirable landscape planting, colorful shrubs and trees, expansive green-mowed lawns, ponds, interesting roads, borders and flower beds. The offerings of these life-giving trees and plants were attractive to the families of those already buried, and the attractive green landscapes were pleasing to the sight of visitors and to those who might be looking to buy a plot of land for a grave.

Marble monuments often sit at the top of a grave with meaningful inscriptions chiseled into the stone, as an historical reminder that the body and spirit planted beneath that earth is a memory to be honored at that spot. A tree has no graven inscription like that on the stone marker which might suggest a long term endurance of the gravestone, but the tree offers a living and growing contrast to the symbolism message carved upon the head stone. The tree will continue to grow as it progresses through natural history to be recycled along with all other living things, such as the blades of grass beneath the trees, and the birds that sing their songs in the branches of the trees.

The tree has been tied closely since man’s history intersected with the development of the natural history of the tree. According to the Hebrew Bible the beginning of man evolved in the Garden of Eden, where it was recorded “The Lord God planted all sorts of beautiful trees there in the garden, trees producing the choicest of fruit.” Genesis 2.9 Trees have become important religious symbols for Jews, Christians and Muslims. Trees were an appropriate connector “in the beginning”-at the Garden of Eden, and certainly a tree gift for planting in a cemetery is a proper and appreciated gift that honors as a tribute to a loved one or a friend and to grow beside the graves-stone. The gift of a tree can grow and survive through several lifetimes and generations and can honor that person and his ancestors for hundreds of years.

A gift of a flowering tree or shrub can play center stage the landscape garden. The flowers, of course, highlight the plant and choosing a flowering tree with fragrant flowers presents another dimension to add a wonderful enjoyment and pleasure for the gardener and his friends. The leaves of a plant will release a wonderful penetrating fragrance into the air, when the tree is planted closely to a pathway to brush against as you pass by and to enjoy the pleasant aroma.