Guiding the eye.

Planning the gaps between the groups of trees was as important as planning where the trees would be.  The gaps are starting to make their mark in what seven years ago was a bare paddock.  Some cunning plans are only now becoming real.

From the house the shaped lawn guides your view outwards.  As the far trees become more significant, the gaps will draw the eye further.   

The plantings are starting to bracket the view.

The driveway also comes down through the trees and across the gap.  Revealing a brief view of the house out in the open, before the trees hide it again.

A photo taken from on top of the pergola, with some labels might explain it better.  But the best explanation will come as the trees fill out into a denser visual barrier.  And the gaps take more significance.  But while that's going to take some years yet, now it's starting to show.

The end point is the far Pisa Range.  Higher than it seems from here.  Snow covered in winter.

The gap above is outlined between the Elms and the Walnuts.  The Elms are dense enough, but the walnuts have been a little disappointing.  However I see all of the neighbourhood young walnuts are a little ratty, but the older ones are grand and well grown.  So it will be OK.

I have been calling this an Allee. (to myself) But I now see the definitions of that word seem to be all about an avenue.  With two long rows of tree on each side.  Not sure of what the name is now.

My 'Allee', stops at the neighbours pine trees about 300 meters out, and then there is another shelter belt about a kilometer away.  I think a stroll over there with the chain saw, to deal with 5 big trees out of each row would improve things a lot.  But not with the owners of the trees I think  !!