If your home is rather broad or your very narrow lot and there are only a few feet left between the end of the House and the property line, you will be unable to do much planting to soften the architectural lines. However, when there is more space on one or the other or both sides of the House, you must extend the planting of Foundation to add "wings" of the plant material to the building.
The object of a plantation of wing is to make the House low and broader and give it the appearance of greater stability. This is the case with ranch-style homes. A plantation of wing can be cleverly placed to act as a screen to obstruct the view of passers-by. This type of testing is a means of effectively separating the public area of the private space.
It is recommended that, whenever possible, leave some exposed House Foundation. It is now generally considered as continuous Foundation planting if common around modern homes is a hangover from the old days when foundations were three or more feet in height and therefore have been awkward and ugly to look at.
The normal and correct procedure in such cases was the Foundation together with shrubs such as plant yucca softof the screen. You should do the same if your home has an inordinately high Foundation that we use for years in the design of House.
The more modern houses, however, have very weak foundations and, sometimes, no visible Foundation. In addition, houses have "grown smaller" outside through more efficient use of space inside, and it is therefore wise to allow some of the building between the corner plantations and entry to show through. This creates the illusion of a larger size. It is also more pleasant aesthetically most of the time to have the green lawn and running right up to the House.
You can still learn more on www.plant-care.com and www.garden.org for more information.
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