I've been reading the book Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School. The author gardens in the Seattle area and writes books on the subject. A great life! This book is full of color pictures and specific examples of how she combined plants when landscaping around her home and school building. Because I'm in Seattle too, these examples and pictures are especially inspiring. I got so inspired, in fact, that I mapped out a 255-square-foot area of lawn on the far right side of our back yard, which I'm going to turn into a planting bed for small trees and tall shrubs that will screen the nieghboring yard.