Garden for a converted school house, North BristolRustic Landscape

8. Establish a theme through repetition. Use lavender’s eye-catching flower color to your advantage by planting in clumps that draw the eye through a garden. For example, the designer of this English garden used groupings of multiple lavender plants to edge garden beds, marching them down the length of a backyard. The chunks of purple-blue help tie the different areas of the garden together through repetition, and their position down the center of the lot establishes perspective.

Pea Gravel in back yard, in an area?

I love the sage Salvia or lavender with pea gravel

do you like this planting style?

I like the combination of plants in the border.

Plant grouping used repetitiously through yard creates a flow