Exotics on your side: tips for finding and choosing

Any landscape designer, and an experienced gardener will confirm that there are two ways to give your garden an individual look:

• Working with the entire landscape, creating unique compositions, careful thought through of every detail from structure to lines, selection of colors and accessories.
• Introduction of only 1-2 plants, but belonging to a number of unusual, exclusive trees and shrubs.

Admiring exotic plants, yielding to the charm of tropical gardens and lovingly viewing the landscapes of distant countries during the rest, gardeners of the whole world are inspired, and then often try to bring to their garden a few unusual and liked strokes.

In the search for the most unusual large plants for your site, you should adhere to the same rules by which you select more familiar cultures. First of all, be guided by local varieties and assortment of local nurseries and garden centers, catalogs of landscape companies in your country.

So, if you want to decorate your garden with an exotic novelty and stand out against the background of your neighbors, then first of all you need to take a closer look at the range of trees and shrubs in local horticultural farms. In their catalogs you will definitely meet unusual, but well-suited for your garden culture.
A reliable source of information on winter hardiness and testing in the culture of a variety of exotic plants has always been and is today the botanical gardens. They also offer exotic plants for sale, and in their assortment there are those plants that can not be found in nurseries and garden centers.