Show Yard Is Backdrop In modern home planning you plan your yard to be a backdrop for your living room and a setting for your house TODAY we think the outdoors outdoors outdoors out out- doors is tto to look at as well as 35 to live n. n Framed by your windows your garden becomes an endlessly endlessly endlessly end end- lessly fascinating picture This picture changes not only from day to day but from hour to hour as the sun moves A CHOICE plant a fountain or a fish pond can become a focal point a prime subject without which no garden is complete Plan your garden step by step Dont Don't try to live with an arrangement you dont don't like just because it is on the plan Keep flexible and change your plan if U results dont don't appeal appeal appeal ap ap- peal to you CONTRAST means drama in gardening Contrast s sun u n nand and shade hard surfaces an and l velvet soft surfaces The latest trend is to play down foundation planting Let Leta a few choice well-kept well accents accents accents ac ac- ac- ac cents take care of tying the house to the ground ITS IT'S A good idea to make one major investment a year in your yard This investment can be a tree a group of shrubs or a piece of good equipment This way you will always be going forward in the upkeep and improvement of your yard THE TIlE MODERN idea of decorating decorating decorating dec dec- orating a home or landscaping a yard operates on the theory that space is not emptiness This makes for a restful change from some of the ideas in the past Because of the high cost of land and building this new space must be plan plan- ned IT WILL take a great deal of planning and thought but the average size house and building lot can be turned into a spacious restful work of art |