TREES IN LANDSCAPING

There is one element found in almost every single landscape project, and it’s not hard landscape, lighting, or a pool, its trees. A tree is a perennial plant with a trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. Trees are important in every landscape big or small, urban or rural, cottage or contemporary. Trees live a lifetime or more, they can be intimidating to choose and maintain. Every landscaping site has room for small trees, which add character to the landscape as ornamental which brings beauty. Trees create a visual impact in the same way as do other landscape features and give a sense of maturity and permanence to sites. They are grown for the beauty of their forms, their foliage, flowers and their siting is of major importance in creating a landscape.

Trees are often planted in savannahs, roadsides and other environments where they are known as street trees or amenity trees. They can be grouped informally, often surrounded by plantings of flowers and shrubs.  As living things, their appearance changes with the season and from year to year. They can provide shade, privacy and cooling through evapotranspiration, absorb greenhouse gasses, pollutants and intercept rainfall also, as windbreakers. It has been shown that they are beneficial to humans in creating a sense of well-being and reducing stress. The beauty of a well planted property and its surrounding can raise the property value.

Have you ever climb a tree?