It's a balancing act

It's taken me a while to figure it out but there has been an imbalance.  It has played on my mind for some months and only recently could I recognise what it was.  The central axis of the garden was ever so slighlty lopsided.

Right in the middle of the garden is the central round bed and in this bed sits four rather lovely Hawthorns.  I planted these a year ago and they have grown and matured into quite beautiful specimens.  The right trees in precisely the right place.

But rising on their northern side is the house while on the southern edge of the garden is the long, relatively low, wooden seat.  It has taken me until now to realise that is the problem.  We need more height behind the seat. 

Having identified the problem I chose to rectify it by planting two more common Hawthorns, crataegus Prunifolia.  It's a good time to get them in the ground and they should do just as well as those planted in the central round bed one year ago.  In fact the visual connection between the two groups of trees should work well.

It has also resolved my incessant and nagging imbalance problem and that can only be a good thing.