This is the latest job I am working on which in Portland Oregon - a lovely blank slate to work with! These are clearly the "before" shots. It's very much a collaborative effort between me and the owner, which I love! She is installing the plants herself and has a lot of knowledge of the plants she likes. The idea for this design is to create an easy-care, low-growing planting scheme that will allow views of their newly remodeled house (they previously had huge, overgrown mugo pines that blocked everything) from the street. These pines also blocked views from their windows to the area across the street which I've suggested we plants with pops of color placed in logical spots in and amongst the existing rhodies and forest plants. This area will have light green colored foliage with white, light pink, pink and blue flowered plants. I'm specifying plants that like dry shade for this area (anemones, piggy-back plants, acanthus & red-flowering currants). The front yard of the house will have blue/green-foliaged plants such as manzanitas, lavenders and rosa glaucas with punches of lime (choisya, lemon lonicera) and some purples (loropetelum, euphorbia). We have also put in some blueberries and lingonberries along with fig, pineapple guava and saffron crocus because the owner is very fond of harvesting from plants. The plan I've posted here is the preliminary rough and the shots are of the front yard viewed from the house just after the irrigation and top soil were finished.