| When homeowners build a house, they automatically | | | | them. |
| start planning how they want to sculpt the land | | | | He had bought some clumping plants and studied up |
| around their house. The homeowner knows that the | | | | on how he should prune them. When he went home |
| decorating possibilities are limitless, and the | | | | garden shopping for shrubs, he remembered he |
| homeowner begins to scan the property. He takes | | | | needed to purchase the tools for his garden such as |
| into account the gentle curve of the driveway, and | | | | shears to remove the oldest and largest clumping |
| the sloping ridge of land in the backyard. He | | | | plant shoots from the lower base of the plant. |
| immediately plans to visit a garden center and go | | | | When he went garden shopping for shrubs, he |
| home garden shopping for shrubs. | | | | wanted to make sure that he purchased hardy plants |
| The homeowner was thinking that he would like to | | | | that could withstand a cold winter, that did not |
| plant some tall shrubs in the garden area in the | | | | affect the flowery blooms that he was going to look |
| backyard, and started gazing at all of the tall plants | | | | forward to each year. He selected some lilac, Van |
| he could use to ensure his garden had early-blooming, | | | | Houtte spires and forsythia that he knew he would |
| and flowery shrubs that would not only add color but | | | | not have to worry about dying and planned to only |
| be interesting too. As he went home garden | | | | shear them some to maintain them. |
| shopping for shrubs, he selected several tall elements | | | | To accommodate the acidic soil that he had on the |
| that were planted in container pots. | | | | property line, the homeowner selected some azaleas, |
| He thought about how the garden would look | | | | and camellias while home garden shopping for shrubs. |
| throughout all seasons of the year, and these large | | | | He knew that they would love the full sun in the |
| shrubs, he thought would be a signal that Spring had | | | | morning and the shady areas in the afternoon that |
| arrived each year. | | | | would come from large trees on the property. |
| When he was home garden shopping for shrubs, he | | | | While home garden shopping for shrubs, the |
| started planning how he would prune, trim and shear | | | | homeowner decided to surprise his wife with some |
| his blooming garden varieties of shrubbery each year. | | | | colored rock and stone, to let her design her personal |
| He decided that he would make it a ritual throughout | | | | space in the garden where a fountain could be placed. |
| the year, to keep dead branches and trash removed | | | | He chose stepping stones in marvelous squares, that |
| from the yard. He knew that dead branches could | | | | would be the right path, for the pool they planned to |
| hinder the shape of his plants, when they started | | | | put in next year. With the all of the necessary plants |
| blooming and he wanted the largest shoots to shoot | | | | selected, the homeowner visited the other side of |
| upward and not lean because something diverted | | | | the store to select his new patio furniture. |