Curb Appeal: Tudor With Flowering Walkway

Well-planned garden beds make a graceful border for this Tudor home's front walkway. The plant palette is a mix of purple, yellow and white with ornamental grasses and evergreens providing year-round interest.

Landscape designers gave this front garden a pretty palette of purple, yellow and white. For purple: Salvia, Allium and Geranium 'Rozanne.' White comes from: peonies, Viburnum, Azalea, Rhododendron 'multimaculatum' and Cornus Kousa. The yellow is: Chamaecyparis and Alchemilla.

The landscape design for this Tudor home's front garden used a layered planting plan of evergreen and deciduous shrubs, perennials and bulbs. Plants include purple Salvia, Allium and Geranium 'Rozanne'; white peony, Viburnum, Azalea, Rhododendron 'multimaculatum' and Cornus Kousa; and yellow Chamaecyparis and Alchemilla. Evergreen Ilex glabra and ornamental grasses are attractive in multiple seasons.

A charming stepping stone path leads from the front lawn around to the back of the house. The garden includes purple salvia, allium and geranium 'Rozanne'; white peony, viburnum, azalea, rhododendron 'multimaculatum' and Cornus Kousa; and yellow Chamaecyparis, and Alchemilla. For year-round interest, there are evergreen Ilex Glabra and ornamental grasses.

To keep this home's gardens in constant blooms and beauty, a layered planting plan includes evergreen and deciduous shrubs, perennials and bulbs.

Square step stones make an intriguing path through the garden and around the side of the house. Foliage plants in different shades of green are a dynamic mix.

At this home, every outdoor space is designed to be interesting. A gently curving stone path makes a graceful transition from front yard to back; the side yard includes a small fountain.

A millstone fountain adds its soothing sound to this beauty of a backyard.

A wide range of plants and flowers surround the patio in the backyard, including purple Salvia, Allium and Geranium 'Rozanne'. Pavers surrounded by grass make a graceful transition out to the lawn.

Fieldstone retaining walls frame in terraced lawns in this grand backyard. For greenery, low-scale shrubs, ornamental grasses and evergreens make sure there is always something elegant to look at.