A nice design, David, with a good balance between botanical interest and family-friendly functionality (or in DesignSpeak: "a good balance between large areas of negative foreground space and high-density background plantings").

For those of us with the Plant-geek Collector Gene, it is all too common to subjugate practical considerations of the outdoor room to freeing up more backyard real estate for indulging the Private Botanical Garden Compulsion. I'm not sure I'll ever have a practical landscape. Wherever there's room for another tree fern or clump of bamboo...