They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I hope my pictures of landscape designs help you come up with some really great landscaping ideas.  These landscaping pictures are of my house, and as you will see the house is quite simple, but being the gardening fanatic that I am, the landscaping far outshines the house.

The above photo is an early spring picture of our front yard.  You can see by the lawn how early this photo was taken, the grass hasn't even started to actively grow yet.  Take a look at the flower beds around the two trees in this photo.

See how large those beds are?  Most people are afraid to make a bed around a tree that large.  We get a lot of compliments on these flower beds.  Each bed has hundreds of bulbs that bloom in early spring, then once the bulbs are done and the danger of frost has past, we plant annual flowers.  It's really beautiful all summer long.