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Spacing of Plants. One of the important factors in successfulplantings is the correct spacing of plants at the time of transplanting.Every plant requires space in which to develop normally. The resultof close planting is eventually an overcrowded condition and a lack ofhealthy, well-developed foliage, flowers, and fruit. The more vigorousspecimens crowd out the weaker ones and unless a "thinning-out"process is adopted, the mass effect becomes quite uneven and ragged. The reason for most overcrowded plantings is the desire on the partof the designer to obtain an immediate effect. Too often our im-patience and unwillingness to wait until plants mature and "fillout," develops many errors. Three years after transplanting is thenormal period required for shrubs, two years for perennials, and eightto ten years for average nursery-grown trees to make the necessarygrowth to overcome the bare effect of the border or row of trees whenplanted in small sizes. |
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