A metal gate custom-designed by Lars Stanley leads you into the front yard.
Deciduous trees are important to any green garden, but the shade they give us can be a big obstacle to gardening. McKinney plants spring flowers that take
advantage of the sunlight available before the leaves bud out.
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Landscape architect Eleanor McKinney has created a beautiful arrangement of native and adapted plants in front of her south
Austin home. The front lawn of buffalo grass gets mowed only once a year.
The arching branches of the native beautyberry become weighted with clusters of purple berries each fall.
This large rain barrel provides water needed for the vegetable garden.
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