Odd that a specialty "gardening" magazine would not include specific genus, species, and variety names. No, not odd. Make that lame. "Ornamental Grass"? What's that supposed to mean? There are thousands of cultivars of ornamental grasses. "Pink Yarrow"? What kind??? The flower in question is agastache, but doesn't tell us what kind. As noted above, I have never seen A. foeniculum with such long flowerheads, or so densely packed. If it is a special variety we will never know since this "gardening" magazine doesn't give variety names. Unfortunately lame gardening magazines tend to "doctor up" their scenes before photographing to make their pictures prettier. Weird that BHG would put out something so lame.

Thanks, Nicki! I love that garden. The pictures that include trees in the grass/perennial border are especially interesting to me because I'm pretty sure now I want include trees. I need more shade. It looks a lot like a Piet Ouldolf or "Dutch New Wave" garden (Noel Kingsbury also does that style) I've been checking out books from the library on these gardens and studying them. I love the look so much. But like you say they tend to be used in huge spaces, and my back yard as you know is pretty small. Another thing I'm considering is a variation on that look, where taller shrubs and some small trees are used along with the grasses and perennials, so that rather than being all open, you see only a part of the garden at a time. I can't decide if I want open and airy, like in the garden you've just shown me--where you can see everything at once, or if it would be better to do the "rooms" thing, where shrubs and small trees screen one part of the garden from another. I always read in the garden books that hiding part of the view creates "mystery," but I'm worried my space is too small and it might get cluttered or clausterphobic. What do you think? Bill

Zep, thank you for your response. I have tried to have the downloads to the desktop, a box opens when I choose save, the list of files in my computer comes up , I try to pick desktop by highlighting, cannot get back to the download box to fill in desktop or change what is there because I have to click save. When I click save which is really the only option that is useful, I cannot go back to the download box, it shows it's downloading, to whatever was there before. I've looked through all the files, downloads, searched by name, even tried to make a new folder just for this but cannot type this folder name into the option in the download box. I'm using IE, Windows XP home. About the some errors on page, I've been hesitant to upgrade java and it sounds like this may be part of the problem from the link you gave me.

People can't scan and send my email as that violates copyright to the designer of the pattern. You could buy one from this site and there is also one on amazon and probably ebay if you search. Mary Here is a link that might be useful: Magazine