This veggie bed is accessible from every angle and easy on the back - everything grows right in front of you...no bending over required. Photo Credit: Mark Pinkerton

A concrete paver walkway with dark river rocks. Alongside is a drought-tolerant bed with a concrete paver bricks as a border and gravel & drought-tolerant plants along with a fountain and small Buddha statue.

Flags mark the lowest part of the yard where the swale will be located
Inspiration for a traditional front yard landscaping in Philadelphia.

The star at the center of this veggie garden is the perfect place for the dwarf lemon tree. The six pointed star (just like the Great Seal of the United States) is ideal for the strawberries to cascade over the edges. The star is 6' with 3' clearance around the star so the space is wide enough to comfortably access the veggie beds from all sides. Photo Credit: Mark Pinkerton

A small traditonal urban garden with beds scaled to accommodate low-maintenance color and foundation plantings, a stone patio, containers, roses and river rock. Roundtree Landscaping.

Landscaping around large trees using River rock accents
Photo of a mid-sized traditional shade front yard stone garden path in Dallas.

We loved this Japanese soaking tub nestled in a bed of river rocks against the bluestone wall.
Photo of a small contemporary backyard landscaping in San Francisco with decking.

AquaTerra Outdoors was hired to design and install the entire landscape, hardscape and pool for this modern home. Features include Ipe wood deck, river rock details, LED lighting in the pool, limestone decks, water feature wall with custom Bobe water scuppers and more! Photography: Daniel Driensky

A small traditonal urban garden with beds scaled to accommodate low-maintenance color and foundation plantings, a stone patio, containers, roses and river rock. Roundtree Landscaping.

A small traditonal urban garden with beds scaled to accommodate low-maintenance color and foundation plantings, a stone patio, containers, roses and river rock. Roundtree Landscaping.

A mixture of hard edges with the river rock and soft accents with the greenery and mulch makes this landscape the best of both worlds.
This is an example of a large traditional drought-tolerant and full sun backyard river rock lawn edging in Columbus.

Our client had a drainage problem in their steep front yard
Photo of a traditional front yard landscaping in Philadelphia.

The round rock path leads through fragrant thyme, blue oat grass, iris, ceanothus, rosmary, pine, lavender and blanket flower to a patio by the sea. Located on the shores of Puget Sound in Washington State. Photo by Scott Lankford

A small traditonal urban garden with beds scaled to accommodate low-maintenance color and foundation plantings, a stone patio, containers, roses and river rock. Roundtree Landscaping.

Beautiful dry river bed with synthetic turf.
Design ideas for a mid-sized traditional drought-tolerant and partial sun front yard river rock landscaping in San Diego.

A detail shot of the river rock channel, CMU block paving, and succulents.
This is an example of a small contemporary full sun backyard gravel landscaping in San Francisco.

A drought-tolerant landscape design with a concrete paver walkway with river rocks leads up to the front door. Along either side are large areas of decomposed granite with succulents. While closer to the house are gravel beds with low-moisture plants.

Because of the sloping terrain the backyard was always swampy and mushy. Improving the site to enable water to flow through the yard and infiltrate into the ground was a top priority. The drainage issues were put to rest by building a creek bed from real river rocks. Bonus – when the stream bed is dry it adds a Zen element to this already tranquil backyard. Photography by John Wiese

This arid garden photo was taken just after the garden was installed so the plants are still small. Within a year, the shrubs in the background will hide the block perimeter wall and the neighbor's shed. An important part of landscape design is to solve visual problems. We used blue-black Mexican river rock to create the illusion of water in the permeable dry river. We call this style, our lush desert or soft desert design. The color theme is silver foliage or leaves, blue cactus, yellow flowers, blue flowers, accented by a dash of hot mango. Photo by Tina Cremer, H2 XERO Landscape.