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Whichever region you call home, it's easy to adapt the ideas and designs featured in this story if you allow shape and form to be your guide.

Garden Path
Combine hardscaping with drifts of ornamental grasses and flowering plants to create the effect of paths winding through a meadow. Use:
  • Fescues, fountain grasses, and switch grasses; sedges, daylilies, and irises.

  • Fragrant creeping thyme or lily turf as a ground cover instead of dymondia.

  • Sand, soil, mulch, or gravel between pavers, instead of mortar, to prevent heaving during freezing weather.

    Cactus Garden

    To achieve a desert look in gardens throughout the Northeast and Midwest, work with plants that have striking profiles and forms. Use:

  • Swordlike yucca instead of strappy aloe and agave.

  • Fleshy sedum, hens and chickens, and donkey's tail spurge instead of echeveria and aeonium.

  • Gray-green artemisia or santolina instead of sage.

  • Fragrant woolly thyme as a ground cover instead of dymondia.

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