FLORIDA NURSERY & LANDSCAPE ClO sve Loe ECS BUR Ge F LOR ID A 
HEN you see a particularly lovely garden with its sweep of green lawn, the shrubbery border 
rampant with colorful bloom, and the cool and restful shades of green in the background, perhaps 
your heart is envious, for that is just the type of garden you wanted and have tried to achieve. 
And perhaps you have failed and are asking yourself why your garden looks so forlorn. 
Here in Florida where folks spend so much of their time out-of-doors, a garden must be a combination 
living-room, dining-room, and recreation club. There may be a lounging terrace, arranged for comfort 
and attractiveness, a grill for the cooking and accessories for the serving of meals, and a game court for 
tennis or shuffleboard or horseshoes. With the increased leisure to come as a result of shorter working 
hours, there will be more time to plan and bring about the gardens of which you have been dreaming. 
But along with the ideal arrangements for enjoyable living, there must be an arrangement of plant ma- 
terials that will provide the privacy desired, as well as express the personality of the gardener. 
Or perhaps there is a preference for a formal garden opening off a terrace or sun porch, with a fountain 
to tinkle merrily, or a pool, with flowers in formal beds, and smooth paths ‘eading to some featured 
statuary or a seat. A garden of this sort wi'l provide a carefully designed picture at all seasons of the year. 
Perhaps there are folks who plant their gardens and home grounds in a haphazard manner and achieve 
a lovely setting, but these are few and far between. Most unplanned plantings look exactly what they 
really are—plants or trees simply stuck in at random. 
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