More great ideas from the New York Times

Loving the reality of more foliage than flowers these days...more bang for your buck, I think. A good thing, in this economic climate.

Also, am all about walkways that have plants creeping through the stones. That old desire to walk into a long-forgotten (but exquisitely overgrown) garden, surely? We are very slowly trying to implement this (the plants & stones part, not the long-forgotten & overgrown part) just beyond our front porch. Hoping that the turtle wins the race on this one.