Why You Should Plant Trees in
Your Garden
Planting trees in your yard,
garden, and landscape not only lends a different type of additional
beauty, but it gives you many environmental benefits.
Trees come in all shapes and sizes. Many trees even produce flowers
and these add an extra beauty element to any garden. Some types
of flowering trees are wonderfully fragrant too, plus they'll give
you an amazing color show at various times of the year.
There are even trees which look stunning in the winter time too,
even without leaves or flowers. Their bark and shape is what makes
them stand out so well... some having bark of various colors, and
others having unusual striking textures that look wonderful with or
without snow cover.
In fact, traditional Japanese gardens are planted with all seasons
in mind. When a tree is added to the garden, it is selected based on
how it looks for every season of the year. This is because the
Japanese feel a garden should be beautiful and enjoyable throughout
all seasons.
Having trees around your home is also a natural way to moderate the
temperatures both inside and out. When you have flowering trees or
even just plain trees with many healthy leaves near your home in the
summer, it helps block the sunlight and heat that's so prevalent in
the summer time. This gives you a comfortable place to sit and enjoy
the outdoors, yet it also helps you use less energy inside your home
too because your air conditioning system does not have to work quite
so hard.
In the winter time, those trees which shed their leaves and become
bare are actually helping you and your home too. The bareness of
them allows the sun to reach you more easily at a time of year when
the sun strength is weaker. This helps provide you with extra warmth
and sunshine when you're sitting outside, plus it allows more of the
sun to enter your home which in turn helps to warm the house
naturally - and save on winter heating bills.
Another wonderful way both trees or bushes can be used is as a wind
block. If you live in an area which gets strong winds at different
times of the year, you know how problematic this can become at
times. By planting a row of trees or large bushes, you can
effectively create a natural barrier that helps to break up the
wind.
You're also
helping to insulate your home a bit better too, because the wind is
not strong enough to try to penetrate inside your home as much as it
might without a natural wind block in place.
So if you haven't yet planted trees in your own garden or landscape,
start looking into the many varieties there are to choose from, and
see if one or more might fit perfectly with your current designs and
needs.
