The first photo comes from the Wild Ones 2014 Calendar that shows a front yard in a very residential area in Cincinnati, Ohio where the chapter members removed a good amount of lawn and installed ornamental borders of all eastern USA native plants, mostly perennials. The second is my peninsula bed in my southeast PA front yard that gives my yard a three-dimensional effect, an important design principle. I planted the Heritage River Birches in 2002 and most of the native perennials at the same time or at least when the trees were young. The third shows my deeply dug plastic edging in my peninsula bed where I created a sand and rock groundcover area behind it, over the all clay soil, and then Bar Harbor Creeping Juniper behind that. The forth is my little backyard birch bed of two Gray Birches surrounded by Wild Quinine, Ozark Coneflower, a Dwarf Fothergilla, and rocks in and around the little island.
