Landscaping is like sculpture to me. Except that when one sculpts a statue or an ashtray it is cured and is forever the same. The ability to grow and change dies with the birth of sculpture made of clay or carved from stone. With the landscape, it cannot remain the same, even from day to day. Change and growth define the landscape.When this was a weed lot we planted these two trees in hopes of a better day. The top one is a fig tree and the bottom is a Japanese Maple. We planted both of them higher than the surrounding ground with a view to raising the ground level. I stacked these bricks around the trees because they looked defenseless. Now as the trees are becoming better established I am making plans to rebuild these brick planters this fall. I will make them proportionally higher and wider, probably a little over sized to allow for growth. That's the way my mother bought me a new pair of shoes for school when I was a kid.
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