Ticketed? I didn't know that... I live in Sac County. I am not a good designer, but I wanted to ask, what veggies did you want to grow? And are you sure no one will steal them?

I will plant any veggie I can...chard, onions, leeks, peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, asparagus, artichoke (?) and whatever else I can fit! As for stealing...huh, never thought about that...guess I'll take that risk!

ANd, yes, Sac will ticket. There was an article in Sac Bee a year or two ago about a single mom that had to tear out her front yard veggie garden because someone filed an annonymous complaint. Nice, eh?

Sunset magazine had an article a couple months ago that showed growing vining squash and melons on an arbor.
They had a variety of zucchini - can't remeber the name - something like trombetta. Harbor Freight (about Garfield and Auburn) sells inexepensive arbors for about $6.
If you trained the vines up the arbor it may not look like a veggie patch.
I am trying this idea myself - but in a community garden -
my goal is to save space. My plants are small, so not sure how well it is going to work.

Are you in the city of Sac? or county? I'm in the county and my neighbor has a veggie patch in her front yard.
I'd never report her. I even helped her rototill it this year!

some of those veggies are cool weather veggies for us... for winter growing... the artichokes will do okay in some afternoon shade, but they get very large and are thistly in appearance... not very attractive for the front. Asparagus takes years.... peppers, eggplant and tomatoes are your best bet. Around MY particular area, they'd get stolen fast... :o( I even had someone steal a potted lemon tree in the front.

Lots of squashes have pretty flowers and twine quite nicely. Nasturtiums have edible flowers. Lots of herbs have pretty flowers (chives, sage, basil) or interesting foliage or texture (basils, parsley (I have a large one in a barrel that looks like a Hinoki cypress and always gets attention). How about using carrots ferny top foliage as a soft filler? Strawberry ground cover? Pepper plants can be pretty ornamental.

Nicole - what no one has mentioned yet is year round look. Most veggies get pretty ugly when they start to wane. Most of the flowering plants you mention in that thread will drop their leaves OR look ragged and ugly in the winter (which is also not a fun time to have to be outdoors cleaning the landscape). To keep a "neat" front, you should plan to yank them and either replace with mulch OR to religiously plant and yank spring veggies, then summer, then fall - all from plants, not seed. And - look for some flowering plants that are "neat" with year round interest (like lavenders). Plan for the arbors to have nothing on them in the winter OR choose a plant that's green all winter. I'd stear away from roses on the arbors you walk through.

DON'T do fennel as someone in the other forum mentioned - it's a weed here.
DO look to some of the smaller eggplants - friends have thought they were decorative plants for me. The small ones like Asian Bride, Little fingers. Many of the varieties of veggies advertised as good for pots keep a more trim, rounded appearance. You can add mini pumpkins to the squash suggestion - gorgeous growing. Squash and pumpkin vines are prickly - you don't want to brush by them going up the walk - not on an arbor you walk through (pain!).

Some Californians consider artichokes weedey looking - I'd stear away from them if your consideration is avoiding complaints.

Your photo mockups do show dry gardening and small plants while your list is moisture rich big plants - so your garden simply will not look like those pictures. That's not good or bad. You can choose.