THE NAKED ACRE : Page 139

By warmth is meant a visual, not a physical, effect— a sense of the house and any outbuildings having come to dwell in, not just on, the site. Planting around the foundations is the answer to this need, but the commonest mistake that warmth seekers make is to overdo such planting, to swaddle the architecture so thickly with growths that in a few short years it is stifled. Most new houses nowadays are low in profile, and so should be their foundation planting. Evergreens give a warm look all year round, but beware of species that will spindle up, like spruce, cedar, arborvitae and cryptomeria. Low-growing by habit or easily kept so by trimming are mugho pine, pfitzer juniper, most