Maybe MMario needs to visit the yard art place and find some nice concrete sculptures to put out instead of plants. Create a sculpture garden!

Bobert, I have gardeners on either side and across the street from me, and it isn't uncommon to see one of us toting a bucket of some plant or other over to the neighbor for them to transplant. I've handed out a lot of iris and grape hyacinth, sacred datura, and lantana, and the guy across the street has given me a couple of fine prickly pear cactus starts and every so often brings over his edger to tame my Bermuda. I've planned my yard so it sort of merges between the houses on either side of me while at the same time being distinctively different because of the species of things I've planted, and the pattern (or lack of pattern) I've chosen. My next door neighbor dug up a couple of plants called "Rock Rose" down in Austin and brought them to me--they look like Rose of Sharon (but if you try to search on the "Rock Rose" plant name by itself you get XXX-rated web sites because there must be a stripper by that name or something). (It's a pavionia, and I think it's in the mallow family). I visit a local nursery and search in their plants to find well-adapted plants.

And it almost goes without saying, I hand out a lot of produce during the summer.

SRS