Meanwhile, down in the mulch in the driveway bed.

Wildflowers from seed, irises from rhizomes, glads from 'corms'.

Full shade, all day long.

Plus, a mathematical vignette in the beds by the front door.

Onions and potatoes, here...and gravel, of course.

...and a look through the Elberta peach tree.

It's kinda peaked, at the moment. Earlier this spring, I pruned it pretty hard. I'm using a mix between a vase shape and an espalier shape in pruning our fruit trees. It's going to be a few years before that peach is shaped the way I want it. Once three or four main branches are well established, everything else will be pruned back, and those limbs will be tied down and staked for a year or two, leaving a major fork right in the middle of the trunk..

A look at the structure of the garden from a slightly different pov.

Your eyes will kinda zig-zag, trying to see it all, so slow down just a bit, there.

That 'movement' or 'dynamic' (drama, drama, drama...) is one of the things I was going for when I designed the dang thing...but ...it can get kinda 'busy,' once in awhile.