Show INCLUDE fOOD PLANTS PLAINTS 11 IN LANDSCAPING You needn't dig up your lawn to grown your own food Flower Flowerbeds Flowerbeds Flowerbeds beds and landscape planting areas around your house or yard can include attractive purpose dual-purpose plantings Although many producing food-producing plants dont don't provide large masses of blooming flowers over long periods the plants themselves are often very pretty An example of a lovely fruit producing shrub is a type of bush cherry known as Hansens Hansen's Purple Leaf Plum or It has rich red purple-red foliage all season and produces small dark red edible fruits i t There are a number of green green- greeni i J leaved bush cherries also i Apple trees can be nice shade trees and modified pruning 1 methods can make them both attractive and productive Or you could train a fruit tree to t grow flat a wall or I fence Carpathian English walnuts which are hardy in the s Uintah Basin make handsome shade trees i Gooseberry and red currant c bushes can be nice background plantings for smaller s flowers or I vegetables becoming more i attractive as the fruits ripen i Fall bearing raspberries can be cut to the ground each ch year and I new tender stalks will come up in spring They can add beauty I Ito Ito to the landscape and valuable I dessert to the table c Rhubarb is a a. a perennial plant I which will add much to a foundation planting if kept properly trimmed Asparagus has a like fern-like foliage which is i t colorful in autumn A word of caution on the asparagus roots t I form an impenetrable mass near lear the surface If you grow it near the house keep jt t confined n some type of raised planter Attractive annual vegetable plants include carrots swiss hard chard rhubarb chard peppers md and various types of leaf let let- lute uce Alternated with flowering slants plants such as petunias or snapdragons they can create some ome very beautiful effects Two vegetables known as lowering flowering kale and flowering abbage cabbage have colorful leaves especially after the first frost late into the fall And the cabbage abbage and kale are as edible as any Rhubarb chard is especially picturesque with its la large e red stalks and red-and-green red leaves It is tall enough to plant behind chind t carrots or peppers with dwarf marigolds out front for bloom A little imagination coupled with vi th plants and seeds from High Valley Nursery can create a unique mique design in your yard It Its will Aill be nice both to look at and ando o chew on |