
This landscape demonstrates that a front yard can simultaneously be strikingly beautiful and provide organic fruits and vegetables. Plants included are: 7 varieties of blueberry, 5 varieties of apple, 3 varieties of alpine strawberries, 3 varieties of gooseberry, conventional strawberries, rhubarb, kale, edible daylilys, a plum, a pluot, and a cherry tree. The flagstone pathway is composed of stained pieces of broken sidewalk.

Designed for successive harvest, this landscape produces a manageable supply of fruits and vegetables throughout the entire season. Multiple varieties of each type of fruit were selected for taste and for successive ripening, thereby spanning the entire growing season and avoiding the problem too much fruit at once. Included are: 8 peach varieties, 8 kinds of nectarine, 8 apple apple varieties, 2 banana varieties, 4 kinds of cherry, 2 banana varieties, 6 plum varieties, 2 kiwi varieties, 2 kinds of lime, 3 kinds of mandarin, a macadamia, a nectaplum (a cross betweena nectarine and a plum), a pineaple guava, a tropical guava, 2 varieties of pomegranate, 4 kinds of pear, a quince, a tangelo, 2 kinds of naval orange, chayote, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and a tree collard, a large vegetable garden, and ornamental plantings. ...and all of this is not only possible but also aesthetically pleasing within an average-sized yard!

This attractive landscape contains a mixture of native, drought-tolerant, and edible plantings. Included are: 2 apples, a pear, a plum, an orange, an artichoke, kiwi, raspberries, a grape, pineapple guava, a tree collard, an herb bed, and a vegetable garden.

The product of the design process is a scale drawing/planting which serves as the basis for installation. |