Here is native ground cover. Easier and more appealing than a lawn. It uses less water, as well. Photo Cred: Joshua Thayer
Design ideas for a small contemporary drought-tolerant and full sun backyard stone vegetable garden landscape in San Francisco.

Strata Landscape Architecture Frank Paul Perez, Red Lily Studios
Photo of a huge modern full sun side yard gravel formal garden in San Francisco for fall.

An oval shape driveway center garden. Located on the south shore of Martha’s Vineyard. This garden is in zone 7, full sun and is drought tolerate.
Photo of a large coastal drought-tolerant and full sun front yard garden path in Boston for summer.

Home design - modern home design idea in Denver

Vertical Horsetail plants against a horizontal slatted fence are another good example of complementing patterns.
Design ideas for a modern landscaping in San Diego.

The 100 year old grape vine was carefully protected during the replacement of a old metal arbor. Arbor was published in Neil Sperry's Garden magazine, 9/2006.

Inspiration for a modern landscaping in Tampa.

urn allee with bluestone walkway and brick curb
Design ideas for a traditional landscaping in Baltimore.

Design ideas for a small contemporary front yard concrete paver driveway in Orange County.

Photo of a large traditional shade backyard retaining wall landscape in Raleigh.

Photo by R. Smiddy: Creeping Jenny ground cover adds interest to the base of these trees and pulls you through the trail
Design ideas for a huge traditional backyard stone landscaping.

Yorkville Hill Landscaping, Inc.
Entryway - mid-sized traditional front yard brick entryway idea in Chicago

Same photo just one month later. Subtle changes. See if you can spot them. Photo by staff photographer and garden care crew technician Enrique Arellano.

Design ideas for a traditional full sun courtyard landscaping in New York for summer.

photo and landscape: Dave Demers - CYAN Horticulture As a long-time neighbor of CYAN Horticulture, the owner of this small south-facing garden gave us carte blanche on her project, as long as the severely damaged lawn was made to disappear altogether. A relax yet carefully studied meadow-like planting of bulbs and perennials, grasses and evergreen shrubs, now flank a narrow walkway. Maintenance is here kept to a minimum and seasons are wisely felt in this ever-changing arrangement.

Design ideas for a mid-sized contemporary drought-tolerant and partial sun front yard garden path in Los Angeles.

Top down view of Lysemachia river, Mondo, Bromeliads. Photo by Ketti Kupper.
Design ideas for a small backyard landscaping in Los Angeles.