Beginner Gardening: best way to remove a small bradford pear tree, 1 by ClematisGuru

ClematisGuru wrote:
well from the sound of it, if i were you, i would draw out a plan..like a floor plan with what you have planted and what the mature radius is. this way you can kind of "see" how this will look as things mature. think about the view into the area as well as how it will feel inside the area looking outward. what do you want to achieve? paths lined with trees? random trees providing shade?

i do not have any dogwoods, but i know they grow in nature as a lower height in a woodland setting, so they probably can take some root competition.having made many, many garden mistakes, i can say that researching what you are planting and thinking about what look and feel you want to achieve has big payoff.
also think about adding some height to the design thru berms of soil, maybe on the perimeter corners. berms allow evergreens to pop out in the landscape, providing height and focal point much sooner than the evergreen tree alone would provide.

attached is a photo of a berm in my lansdcape design at home that allowed inexpensive arbor vitaes to provide coverage for a fence that a
neighbor put in between our properties. there are two of these berms, forming an oval form to the main lawn as well as shielding us from the fence and providing storage and other garden areas behind the berms.
perhaps you could put a similar, but smaller l shaped berm on each corner of the empty square field you describe.