Design credit; unknown

Design credit; unknown

Design credit; unknown

Design credit; unknown

Location; McComb Gardens, Sequim, WA http://www.mccombgardens.com/

A glorious layering of colors and textures provides artful screening, year round interest and fragrance.

Photo credit; Alyson Ross Markley

Layers of deciduous and evergreen foliage add interest and screening.

Le jardinet

A beautiful foliage focused design - Guthrie residence, Woodinville, WA

Le jardinet

Le jardinet

Le jardinet

Le jardinet

Le jardinet

Le jardinet

Le jardinet

Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'

Miscanthus sinensis 'Morning Light'

Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus' in winter

'Flasher' daylily

Verbena bonariensis,

Crocosmia 'Lucifer' is a fvorite of hummingbirds

Lochinch butterfly bush, although not sterile, does not seem to have the same self seeding tendencies as the noxoius Buddlea davidii. The silver, felted foliage is outstanding

Gorgeous blue-green foliage on this prostrate conifer; Feelin' Blue deodar cedar

Late summer border features sunset shades. Great foliage forms a picture frame around the seasonal; flowers

Spirea japonica 'Big Bang Double Play' - spring color

feathery foliage of bronze fennel

Fall color of the paperbark maple (Acer griseum)

fall container

Ice crystals on a hebe

Bare winter bones in the garden are even more striking when anchored by a cabin nestled into the border

Early morning sun slowly warms up the first light frost of fall

Shafts of early morning sunlight on a fall garden

A fall garden is all about texture

Frosted spirea foliage and grasses in fall

Frosty winter landscape

Le jardinet

Le jardinet

Le jardinet

Lilafeee Bishop's hat in spring. Design by Mitch Evans

Gerald Darby iris

Early spring in the garden. Dappled light under a Japanese maple allows Gerald Darby iris, Japanese forest grass and bishop's hat to thrive. Design by Mitch Evans

Clematis jackmanii superba and Westerland rose

Clematis jackamnii superba and Westerland rose

Rosa 'Colette' and Clematis jackmanii 'Superba'

Blue Sunrise hardy geranium.

Hidcote lavender

Picea mariana 'Ericoides'

Red Spider Japanese maple

All Gold Japanese forest grass

A small container lives large when set into a border

Mix patterns by keeping a simple color palette

saxifrage

Variegated boxwood