Tiny plants won't dwarf a garden's beauty

Chicago Sun-Times | June 5, 1987| | Copyright

David Thompson leans over and rubs his hand over a fuzzy little pine tree the size of a curled-up cat. "Nothing in this garden has ever been pruned," he says. "This is just the way it grows. That juniper back there is 12 years old; that one over there is 8."

He is standing amid a forest of evergreens in back of his home in Harford County, but the tallest tree in this forest barely tops out at his knee. It is a garden of dwarf plants: tiny conifers interspersed with heaths and heathers, small perennials, alpines and delicate spring bulbs.

There are dozens, maybe hundreds of varieties of ...

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