Colorful annuals and Allium bulbs planted within shade garden planting island in entry court
Inspiration for a large mediterranean full sun front yard gravel formal garden in New York for spring.

Elegant home design photo in Chicago

Photo by Kirsten Gentry and Terra Jenkins for Van Zelst, Inc.
Design ideas for a huge traditional shade backyard garden path in Chicago for spring.

Austin Texas, Shade gar
Inspiration for a large contemporary drought-tolerant and shade front yard stone garden path in Austin for spring.

Custom Shade Garden in New Haven, CT

Photo of a mid-sized traditional shade backyard stone garden path in Minneapolis.

Comprehensive Design and Installation of New Shade Garden
Design ideas for a mid-sized modern shade side yard mulch garden path in Los Angeles for summer.

Mark Tessier Landscape Architecture designed this textural, drought tolerant, warm modern garden to complement the mid-century design of the home. The use of various materials including gravel, reclaimed and ipe wood, and concrete mixed with a lush drought resistant planting palette offer a homeowners and visitors a multi sensory environment. Photos by Art Gray

This is an example of a mediterranean landscaping in San Francisco.

The arbor over the swing is intended to shade the sitting area in this hot yard as the sun comes from the left side of the swing. Evergreen Pandorea vines eventually grew over the top. The style mimicked that of the already existing pergola on the deck. The swing gives the family a resting place to watch people practicing on the putting green.

This home owner didn't want to keep mowing his back yard. So we came up with a shade garden design that eliminated his grass and added beauty and function to his back yard. We used mature Natchez Crape Myrtles, Asian Jasmine, Variegated Hostas, and Autumn Fern.

Design ideas for a mediterranean landscaping in San Francisco.

Shade Garden with Dry Creek bed
This is an example of a contemporary landscaping in Nashville.

Shade to Sun - A Journey of a Perennial Garden by Stonepocket. Upon the removal of a large silver maple the garden of pachysandra, hosta, and daffodils went from nice dappled shade to blazing fun sun. Shade plants were moved to other locations or giving away in order to transition into a full sun perennial garden. Spring flowers of Iberis, specie tulips, and Muscari fad to give way to Salvia, Coreopsis, Aruncus and Iris by early summer. Grasses, Asters, Heliopsis, and fall blooming onions push the late season color well into October. Text and form help carry the garden through our long cold winters. Photos by Stonepocket, Inc.

More purple rocket blooms in white, with a maiden hair fern and my very slow growning blood root (sanguinaria canadensis) has the very strange leaf shape in center. Small white blooms in front are a woodland spiderwort and are actually more purple than what appears here.

Inspiration for a mediterranean landscaping in San Francisco.