A Yard Goes From Dirt Patch to Perennial Paradise

A fastidious note taker and amateur photographer, Joyce takes her iPad out to the garden to record and adjust her plantings. Like other gardeners, she will also happily pause her hori-hori gardening knife long enough to exchange tips with strangers over the fence; a bicyclist who happened by turned out to be a landscape architect whom she now counts as a friend—and resource.

Shown: A view of the garden house, framed by 'Scintillation' rhododendron, 'Delaware Valley White' azalea, and a 'Bloodgood' Japanese maple.