when I was a child. [The house I grew up in was just inside the housing addition behind this land.] Across the street was a much larger field that occasionally held grazing cattle. Within a few years the large acreage had become one of the better enclosed shopping malls in central Oklahoma. The field of grasses had also changed considerably... for years it was an automotive tire store.
When the tire store moved the new owners significantly upgraded the exterior and interior... and opened a jewelry store. We were asked to design the space between the pergola-like structure and the buildings main entrance as the primary garden space... with the rest of the grounds given over to lawn, trees and large stand-alone shrubs.
A concrete walkway wound through the length of the space and then looped to return to the front entrance. There was also a shorter walk directly to the door.
The planting areas contained specimen Dwarf Akberta Spruce, Pygmy Japanese Black Pine, and Japanese Maple. The center of the large central planting bed contained specimens of deep red and burnt orange grandiflora Roses. Both sides of the central bed and other areas were planted with 'White Meidiland' Roses.
Look closely at the first photograph and you will see a large shrub growing close to the building. That is a triangular grouping of three Dwarf Tanyosho Pines.
The store manager told me on windless and warm summer nights you could walk out the front door and be stopped in your tracks by the faint scent of the roses in bloom. [It is so windy in central Oklahoma that smelling a flowers fragrance is a rare treat to be savored.]
