I'm planting some trees (bare root seedlings) in my yard. 2 tulip trees to provide shade on the southern side of the house, a mixture of evergreens to provide a wind block and screen from the neighbor, as well as a free red maple and two forsythia bushes that arborday.org threw in for free. I have questions about arranging the plantings of the evergreen trees.
I have 3 eastern red cedar, 3 Canadian hemlock, 3 Norway spruce, and 4 douglas fir. I do not like the look of evergreen trees or shrubs arranged in a straight line, and was going to plant the trees in appropriately spaced intermittent clusters of 3 or 4 trees. I don't think it matters relative to the health of the trees, but maybe there is a rule of thumb based upon planning/organizing the landscape visually. My question is whether I should plant three of one kind together in four clusters, or plant the four clusters with different trees in each cluster?
Thanks in advance.
I have 3 eastern red cedar, 3 Canadian hemlock, 3 Norway spruce, and 4 douglas fir. I do not like the look of evergreen trees or shrubs arranged in a straight line, and was going to plant the trees in appropriately spaced intermittent clusters of 3 or 4 trees. I don't think it matters relative to the health of the trees, but maybe there is a rule of thumb based upon planning/organizing the landscape visually. My question is whether I should plant three of one kind together in four clusters, or plant the four clusters with different trees in each cluster?
Thanks in advance.