Maggie's Farm

Nice. Beautiful color. Must admit I am not a great gardener and I do know quite a few great gardeners who frown down so I hired an English gardener once to do a front garden. He came over while I was planting a forsythia towards the back part of the property and after observing remarked, "Why bother?". When I said, "Whadaya mean?", he said that as landscaping is a fair bit of work he liked to use plants that look good at least three out of the four seasons. Makes sense. The forsythia only looks good for a few short weeks in the spring and he planted a nice garden.

Here is a list of some of the plants he used.

Helianthemum
Rhododendrons
Carpet juniper
kinnikinnick
Korean lilac
Snowmound Spirea
Magic carpet spirea
Vancouver gold
Dwarf Cypress
Rock Daphne
weeping red Japanese maple
red maple
Heath (not heather)
cotoneaster
tea roses
hostas
virginia creeper - on a rock wall- (a dwarf variety, IIRC)
phlox
campanula (the tall one, 2'-3')
dogwood
silver lace vine