Borrowing scenery - Japanese art of shakkei - Brief Article
Country Living Gardener, Dec, 2001
Star magnolia (Magnolia stellata) Zones 4 to 8; rounded shrub or small tree to 15' or 20' tall; smooth, tactile gray bark
* Lombardy black poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica') Zones 3 to 9; fast-growing, narrowly upright tree; to 50' tall
Dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) Zones 5 to 8; spirelike deciduous conifer with buttressed trunk to 80' tall; substitute bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) in the South
* Harry Lauder's walking stick (Corylus avellana 'Contorta') Zones 4 to 8; gnarled shrub 6' to 8' tall
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