Plants: Our designs give you color and interest all year. Because many people love to garden but just need help with plant selection and design, this is an ideal phase to do as a kit. We select and deliver the right perennials for the right spot, actually designing the plants on site. Then we can leave them for you to dig in, saving the cost of our labor to install, or you can leave them completely for us to install and we'll do the hard part.

Plants Picture Galleries:

Plant Types Pictures - by clicking on the "picture" below, a new browser window will automatically open up with a full-sized picture displayed. When you are finished viewing the picture, simply close the window.
Picture	Description	Size
	Asters	38.1 k
	Autumn Purple Ash	33.7 k
	Blood Grass	6.5 k
	Butterfly Bush	69 k
	Chantileer Pear	76.7 k
	Blue Cranesbill	12.9 k
	Pink Cranesbill	53.8 k
	Dwarf Daylilies	45.3 k
	Elfin Thyme	58.2 k
	Elfin Thyme #2	50.2 k
	Ginnala Maple	71.8 k
	Hawthorn Trees	28 k
	Hosta	31.5 k
	Iceplant	8.3 k
	Liatris aka Gayfeather	8.4 k
	Summer & Winter Maiden Grass	92.9 k
	May Night Salvia	7.8 k
	Moneywort aka Creeping Jenny	63.3 k
	Poppy Mallow	36.1 k
	Prostrata Spruce	7.8 k
	Red Creeping Thyme	29.6 k
	Russian Sage	21.6 k
	Shrub Roses	51.2 k
	Sun Daisy Groundcover	87.8 k
	Yarrow	5.8 k

Plant Growth Stages Pictures - by clicking on the "picture" below, a new browser window will automatically open up with a full-sized picture displayed. When you are finished viewing the picture, simply close the window.
Picture	Description	Size
	Plant Growth Progression over 5 years	128.9 k
	Plant Growth Progression over 3 years	113.4 k
	Plant Growth Progression over 2 years	184.9 k
	Plant Color from Spring through Fall	139 k

Plants Before & After Pictures - by clicking on the "picture" below, a new browser window will automatically open up with a full-sized picture displayed. When you are finished viewing the picture, simply close the window.
Picture	Description	Size
	Before Planting & After Planting	117.1 k
	Before Planting & After Planting #2	176 k
	Before Planting & After Planting #3	132.1 k
	Before Planting & After Planting #4	207.9 k

Sod/Turf: Our three top choices are:

• Reveille - Xeric bluegrass sod needing water just once a week when established.
• GTF - Premium, emerald-green bluegrass that will put your neighbor's lawn to shame.
• Seed - bluegrass, xeric choices, and native pasture grasses.

Sod/Turf Picture Gallery:

Sod & Turf Pictures - by clicking on the "picture" below, a new browser window will automatically open up with a full-sized picture displayed. When you are finished viewing the picture, simply close the window.
Picture	Description	Size
	Xeric Crested Wheatgrass Seeded Lawn	41.2 k
	Xeric Bluegrass Sodded Lawn	124.6 k
	Premium Bluegrass Sodded Lawn	17.1 k

Edging: Safety should be your main concern here. The purpose of edging is to create a barrier between grass, which is invasive, and your planter beds. The old-school method was to maintain a shallow trench or "bed edge" between the grass and planters. The advent of a hard edging material was more appealing because of the labor reduction. However, edging is not the panacea. Grass plants still tend to skip over and under edging. So it's important to kill the grass before it creeps over the edging too much, and the edging provides a hard line along which to do that. If you spray a grass killer along the edging a couple times a year, you will avoid the problem of grass invading your beds where it then becomes a major problem and creates a maintenance headache. Metal edging is cheap and easy to install, which is why it is so popular. However, going back to our philosophy of "quality first," we recommend Bend-A-Board thick wood-look vinyl safety edging. The difference in cost is much less than the hospital trip for your children or pets.

Mulch: Bark or rock? Fabric underlayment or none? Neither is perfect, but here's how you make your decision. Rock looks good the first year because the fabric underlayment required under rock covers the existing weeds. However, over time dust and silt settles on the top surface of the fabric and becomes a haven for new weed seeds blowing around in the air. After that, weeds are constantly rooting in the rocks, which then become a maintenance nightmare. Rocks are also very hot and not conducive to growing plant materials without over-watering. The only good applications for rock are in large expanses of windy areas where no plant materials are required or in dry streambeds. Bark mulch is the ideal companion for plants because it helps moderate soil temperatures and retains moisture. However, we use only small bark mulch with no underlayment. Underlayment defeats the purpose because it won't allow the bark to bind with the soil, so you get slipping and blowing of the mulch. If laid at a minimum of two and one-half inches, small bark suppresses weeds because when the weed seeds blow in, they disintegrate before reaching the dirt where they could germinate. Until your plant materials spread and cover the bark mulch, you should plan to "freshen" it in the spring for the first two to three years. Additionally, this means that all weeds should be eradicated before the mulch is laid. Once bark mulch is installed, it must be "watered in" to start the binding process to the dirt.

Mulch Picture Gallery:

Mulch Pictures - by clicking on the "picture" below, a new browser window will automatically open up with a full-sized picture displayed. When you are finished viewing the picture, simply close the window.
Picture	Description	Size
	Small Bark Mulch	59.8 k

Rock Accents: A good use of rock is for accents such as dry streambeds, or small areas of cobblestones for drainage, or large boulders for asthetic purposes. Rock accents can complement the plantings and give diversity to the overall plant design. See the picture gallery below for examples of Dry Streambeds.

Rock Accents Picture Galleries:

Rock Types Pictures - by clicking on the "picture" below, a new browser window will automatically open up with a full-sized picture displayed. When you are finished viewing the picture, simply close the window.
Picture	Description	Size
	Buff Flagstone	11.5 k
	Buff Flagstone steps with Brick mortared Walls	35.1 k
	Buff Flagstone with Granite Boulder	17.7 k
	Mortared Buff Flagstone	49.2 k
	Buff Flagstone Slab Walls with Mossrock Boulders	30.4 k
	Buff Flagstone Random Pattern Walls	24.2 k
	Buff Flagstone Slab Steps	10.3 k
	Buff Flagstone Strip Wall	22.5 k
	Buff Flagstone Strip Laid Flat	17.3 k
	Mountain Cobblestone	13.9 k
	Natural Cobblestone	28.2 k
	White Cobblestone	21.4 k
	Cortez Mossrock Walls	25.2 k
	Faux Cobble Wall	108.7 k
	Granite Rip Rap Wall	34.3 k
	Mixed Mossrock	22.3 k
	Mixed Mossrock Closeup	52.7 k
	Navajo Ruby Mossrock Boulder with Red Flagstone	30.6 k
	Real Brick Patio and Steps	13.6 k
	Real Brick Patio with Granite Walls	17 k
	Real Cobblestone Posts	14.9 k
	Unusual Red Flagstone Railing	15.4 k
	Red Flagstone Patio	13.2 k
	Red Flagstone Steps & Granite Walls	46.7 k
	Red Flagstone Slab Steps	8.7 k
	Red Strip Flagstone	28.9 k
	Slate & Cobbles	46.1 k

Boulders - by clicking on the "picture" below, a new browser window will automatically open up with a full-sized picture displayed. When you are finished viewing the picture, simply close the window.
Picture	Description	Size
	Cobble Boulders	31.2 k
	Decorative Mossrock Boulder	24.4 k
	Navajo Ruby Mossrock Boulder	25.9 k
	Round Mossrock Grouping	23.5 k

Dry Streambeds - by clicking on the "picture" below, a new browser window will automatically open up with a full-sized picture displayed. When you are finished viewing the picture, simply close the window.
Picture	Description	Size
	Mountain Cobble Dry Streambed	13.9 k
	Natural Cobble Dry Streambed	28.2 k
	White Cobble Dry Streambed	21.4 k
	White Cobble Dry Streambed #2	81.2 k

Railroad Garden Pictures - by clicking on the "picture" below, a new browser window will automatically open up with a full-sized picture displayed. When you are finished viewing the picture, simply close the window.
Picture	Description	Size
	Railroad Garden	118.7 k
	Railroad Garden #2	36.5 k