A variety of flowering perennials feature heavily in the planting, providing full season interest in the way of color, habit, form, and size.

Meandering, mowed pathways take visitors throughout the garden to present unique views and discoveries while providing access to all parts of the property for long walks, mountain biking, or picnicking in a quiet corner.

Grasses used in block and matrix plantings provide texture and enhance both layering and contrast in the planting while dancing on the breeze and bringing the garden to life.

Loose gravel and dry stacked rock walls create borders bewteen plantings and provide contrast to ordered, rectangular pavers and patio spaces throughout the property.

Trees and shrubs are planted in staggered, concentric hedges to serve as privacy screens, create unique sight lines, unveil discoveries in the landscape, and enhance both the spring and fall interest of the planting through flowering and changes in leaf color.

Low, mixed borders of flowering perennials, grasses, and shrubs soften the hedges and allow for extended site lines across different areas of the garden.

Extended swaths of prairie plantings cover the outside edges of the garden to create a transition to the field where bees, butterflies, and other pollinators thrive.

In several areas throughout the 10 acre property, naturally occurring plants have been selectively encouraged to take over, intermingled between transplants and intentional seeding of perennials and grasses from the garden.

Several areas of the garden have been designed to frame and reveal narrow visual openings into different parts of the landscape. These vistas have been designed to be seen from certain vantage points such as doorways, windows, and patios.

Long range, breathtaking views of the adjacent hills and valleys surround the garden on three sides. Pathways, hedges, patios, and perennial plantings have been designed to complement and feature these views as both backdrop and destination within the garden.

With the garden sitting in the midst of hayfields and trees that provide a relatively uniform canvas of green, contrasting colors within the garden help create differentiation and visual interest relative to its surroundings.

The layering of plants with different textures, heights, habits, colors, and forms helps to create a sense of depth and transition within the landscape.

Flowering trees and shrubs feature heavily in creating spring interest as the garden is just waking up. Magnolias, service berries, dogwoods, crabapples, viburnum, lilac, and spirea are all planted at varying intervals throughout the garden and across the broader landscape.

Fall interest has also been a key consideration in plant selection and garden design - whether that be the change in leaf color of trees and shrubs or the form and color of spent perennials and grasses.