Streamside border in early spring

View from the sidewalk.  This area is dry and sunny, so I chose plants that can take the heat:  sedum, salvia, lavendar.

I see this view from my office window.  The juniper look lovely all year round.  Now, you can just start to make out the silhouettes of the dwarf fothergilla.

This spring, I planted some new shrubs.  These plum-leaf azaleas are native to my area.  They will bloom in late summer.

And this little beauty is a pinxterbloom azelea, another native species.

I planted windflowers between the junipers.  They will naturalize over time and become even more pretty.