One of the most fundamental factors isyou plan to have some outside assistance. rhe time that can be spent on the garden, whether ir is purely your time or whether impossible to maintain within your own spare time, and ptohibitively There is no point in having elaborare iueas and fanciful plans if they would be ascertain just how much time certain styles and sizes of expensive if you were to employ skilled help. It is helpful to public you can gain some idea of the upkeep involved garden will require. By visiring friends' gardens or those open to the herbaceous borders, a lawn compared with an expanse in maintaining garden features such as shrub rose beds compared with shrubs. It is depressing to own a beautiful garden,of gravel, or containers of annual plantings against summer-

