With our time-strapped lives, creating low-maintenance gardens just makes good sense – the plants we choose are critical in determining how labour-intensive our gardens will become.
The demand for instant gardens means there is often little tolerance for planting small trees, but in our experience trees that are planted when they are small grow to be more robust, sound plants.
Trees do a lot for us: they shade, screen, shelter, cool and filter pollution, give us fruit, nuts and berries and live much longer than we do. Trees are, quite simply, indispensable.