You know roughly what you want. This is how you get from an idea to a plant order: measuring your yard, mapping its light, spacing plants so they look right at maturity, and working out how many to buy.
The spacing arithmetic that keeps a bed from closing up: how to use mature spread instead of pot size, how far from the house to plant, and how to see a collision fifteen years before it happens.
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A step-by-step guide to mapping the sunlight in your yard: the free paper-and-pencil method, what "full sun" and "partial shade" actually mean in hours, and how to see where shade will fall as your trees grow.
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