Here’s an interesting site www.yourfrontgarden.com focusses on services and advice for front gardens (or front yards? for our American cousins?)
Looks like they’re doing a blog too
January 23, 2009
December 18, 2006
Centaurea montana ‘Alba’
Unusual pure white cultivar of the perennial Centaurea montana. Likes a moist but well drained soil in sun or partial shade and flowers from late spring to mid summer
Summer Planting Combination
To remind everyone of the warm days of summer
A nice planting combination for a summer herbaceous mid border. Verbena bonariensis combined with Pennisetum
This photo was taken at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, UK
More information about the gardens at Hardwick can be found here