Simple cedar pergola, hops vine, ornamental rhubarb, lonicera 'Baggeson's Gold', Benjamin Moore Night Horizon

Phormium tenax, aka New Zealand Flax

Bumblebee and honeybee share the wealth in a cardoon flower.

Curvy stuffed beds turn a lawn into a garden.

Design for a back yard garden, with plants to bring birds in all seasons.

Honeysuckle 'Dropmore Scarlet' is a hit with hummingbirds.

This junco nest held three baby birds who fledged in the SSC Garden Center.

Baby robins tucked under the eaves.

Initial site plan for front and back landscapes.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Rigoletto'

A showy and bright maiden grass. Its fall foliage is striped in colors, asserting dramatic ivory-toned highlights and even bearing tassel-like scepters on stalks.