Prune for TextureFormal gardens rely on structure to provide interesting design, but texture is important too. Notice how the smooth, shorn hedges contrast with the blooming bushes and trees. Imagine the difference between the two if you were to run your hand over them. One would feel light and free, the other straight and solid.

Balance the scene. Frame a view with symmetrical plantings, such as clipped hedge forms or a set of flowering crab apple trees placed in all four quadrants around a central element. This design reveals an updated approach to the traditional garden maze. Yes, it is a perfectly symmetrical garden vignette, but the blue-glazed urn downplays stuffy formality.

Boxwood has long been the number-one choice for formal hedges. Because it is evergreen, it can give your garden a verdant structure year-round. It also takes to shaping very well, whether you want to shape a rectangular hedge, conical shrubs, rounded balls or a Bart Simpson–shaped topiary.Photo: Malus sargentii 'Tina' (Flowering Crabapple)

19. Design for seasonal impact. In Vancouver, Washington, a stately grid of white flowering trees lends timeless appeal to a formal garden parterre centered around a single blue focal point. The look is pure and fresh, crisp and deliberately restrained — elegance redefined.

What else should you trim on a young tree? Make sure the tree has one central leader branch — if it has two, cut off the one that isn't straight up and down, looks weaker or is coming off the side of the trunk.Remove any crossing branches that are rubbing each other. Rubbing branches peel off protective bark and can lead to disease.If you're pruning crabapples, go easy. The more you prune these trees, the more ugly water sprouts you'll get (those thin branches that go straight up in the air). My advice is to not make more than a few cuts each year.Read more on winter tree care

Garden

trees

Love those trees with the white blossoms. What kind of trees are those?

Pear tree

Wall of Pear tree

Luv it

Trees

Trees + hedges - lots of texture

flowering crabapple

What trees??? Dogwoods?

kind of like the white trees; not sure they`ll work in our small backyard; would need layers below to fill-in for privacy; might be inadequate for second story privacy that the trees need to provide

For my garden

Pruned trees

Oh what I would give for this!

flowering crabapple

love

White trees

tree withboxwood

White trees

Tree

Crabapple trees and variegated euonymous

Trees

White Trees

Trees

front garden

For deck, do you do squared off hedge with round at each corner??

trees and hedge

Are these dogwoods or crab apples?

diamond shaped boxwoods

Tina Sargent Crabapple (Malus Sargentii)

The white trees..

flowering trees and formal hedging

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Labyrinth!

love it

Garden

Trees

mulberry trees would be nice

Flowering trees framed by boxwoods.

Backyard landscape

The maze and the white bushes...fab

crabapple tree

Zij-tuin

Trees

garden

Trees

Trees

trees

arbres blancs

Like this. Especially the blooming trees.

garden layout ....

Like the trees

lead the eye with symmetrical plantings, lighten up stuffiness with fun color

Boxwood hedges

Yard

Crab apple trees

Lovely boxwood & crabapple

Boxwood layout

orchard

Treels

Love the tree

Boxwood .... idea for long drive entrance

Flowering crabapples

paulonio

beautiful trees

Blue pot.

Blooming White Trees = Amazingness. I think they may be Malus sargentii 'Tina' (Flowering Crabapple) Boxwood has long been the number-one choice for formal hedges. Because it is evergreen, it can give your garden a verdant structure year-round. It also takes to shaping very well, whether you want to shape a rectangular hedge, conical shrubs, rounded balls or a Bart Simpson–shaped topiary. Photo: Malus sargentii 'Tina' (Flowering Crabapple)

must have

THAT is a focal point!

Well framed and so clean

garden

It's classic and peaceful.

Placement of trees and shrubs

Bed design

Flowering crabs

Flowering crabapple "Tina"

guarden

Ordnung und Schoenheit

Box hedges

Design ofr seasonal impact. In Vancouver, Washington, a stately grid of white flowering trees lends timeless appeal to a formal garden parterre centered around a single blue focal point. The look is pure & fresh, crisp & deliberately restrained - elegance redefined.

Everything

Tree

Trees with white blooms in front yard?

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Backyard

white

garden

Love the trees

Trees

Laberinto

Beautiful look with the bushes and trees

花树

Garden orchard

The trees

formal landscape

centre planting?

Symmetry and the center of honor

White tree

flowering crab apple trees placed on 4 quadrants around central element and boxwood hedged

orchard in front of red shed

could do this with a splash pad in the center

Garden

Spring!

the whole picture

Cherry trees

Flowering Crabapple

Bloeiende kersen

Hedges

Malus sargentii 'Tina'

blooms in a bunch

Landscape

Spring snow crabapple trees

Like

White flowering cherries

square with tree in the front

Trees

Love the maze

Trees

Trees

An object of desire.

FORMAL GARDEN

trees

Symmetry

maze

q

Trees

Garden

Flowering Trees

Cool! Very formal!

trees

find plants for dry land Parterre..

White flowering trees and hedges

Вокруг яблонь

Garden

It's a very beautiful garden.

white trees

White Garden-3

OMG - how beautiful!!! white flowering trees in a formal garden parterre centred around a blue focal point. The look is pure and fresh, crisp and deliberately restrained - elegance redefined!!!

Garden - White Cherry Blossoms

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Would love to see this with cherry blossom trees

Beautiful

tree

trees

Good around fruit trees?

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Landscape

hedges tree

all

Path in Forrest. I like how u can look out at a work of landscape art.

Maze

Hedge idea for front yard

trees

symetry with boxwoods

focal point garden

Vancouver, wa

white trees

Wa.a.aw!

pruned flowering apple trees

Trees

White trees , formal garden .-maybe out by the road

Grazu

White, trees

Beautiful backyard

blue focal point for my blue pot, on a smaller scale

The white trees

fab design for garden

boxwood/flwring crab garden

Nice

white flowering trees

trees

flowering trees

formal

Beautiful japanese landscape!!

White Flowering Trees

Garden labyrinth

nice landscape

I love the whisper of white and the blue shout.

design

flowering crabapple tree. bloom in spring

a stately grid of white flowering trees lends timeless appeal to a formal garden parterre centered around a single blue focal point. The look is pure and fresh, crisp and deliberately restrained — elegance redefined.

white and formal

beautiful trees

what about trees like these on either side of stairs down back porch?

boxwoods

Hedges around trees

geometrikus cseresznyefák

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seasonal impact design

landscape

White flowering trees

Like the boxwood