A Welcoming Front Yard Garden in Grand Junction, Colorado

Bob and Nancy Hackett enlisted landscape architect Bob Arcieri to create a welcoming front yard. Colorful planting beds flank a wide walkway to a covered porch with ivy-draped pillars. Beds feature flowering ground covers (Ajuga reptans, Potentilla verna), hardy shrubs (Japanese barberry, Yucca filamentosa), blue fescue clumps, and long-blooming daylilies and pansies. A sliver of lawn sits between a flower bed and a boulder-edged dry creek. Upright and weeping flowering cherries anchor the rear.

The project won a joint merit award in the 1999 Excellence in Landscape competition (Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado).