Enjoy for the first time, or once again, the feature design articles from back issues of the EurekaEmail Gardening Newsletter.

Study the on-going design articles from the beginning and create more enjoyable gardens and garden photography.

Click on the links below and go directly to the colorful feature garden design articles.

Click here and find yourself or your friends in the 2005 AIS tour gardens in St. Louis

We all love to walk in lush gardens. Link here to enjoy the recent American Iris 2005 Convention Tour Gardens and see how they were laid out. From carefully tended private home gardens, to amazing school class project gardens, to larger spreads in the Missouri hill country, you'll love these sites.

Take your online stroll through these beautiful tour gardens and see the iris collectors and the bloom.

Click here and enjoy irises on display at the AIS tour gardens in our capitol

Click on this link for irises on tour and enjoy our Feature Design Article, Iris Inspirations: Images and Ideas from the 2003 AIS National Tour Gardens.

We photographed the beautiful gardens around Washington D.C. this year featured by the American Iris Society.

Click here for an illustrated article on garden walkways: Designing Your Paths to Beauty

Careful planning and development of your garden walkways can do so much more than provide egress though your garden. They can direct the visitor from one vista to another, they can define public areas and most of all they can provide your collection of fine perennials a sense of unity as the walkway groups hundreds if not thousands of cultivars into visually manageable components.

Our natural emphasis and primary interest as we work in our perennial collections are the plants themselves. We dream about the peak display times during Winter darkness. We imagine the leaves and blooms as we plant the roots in the Spring or Fall. However, too often we forget the powerful effect that the walkways have on our gardening experience both to the garden owner and the visitors enjoying the beauty.

Click here to learn how to design and build your own dry-stack rock wall

For your garden's beauty and easy cultivation, few projects make such a great addition to your cultivar collection as a rock wall. Whether you're planning on doing it by yourself, recruiting friends and family to help or whether you're planning on hiring out the work, now is a good time to dream and design your stacked rock, garden retaining wall.

Well built and functional, it will be a beautiful foreground for your plants in every season and a wonderful, harmonious addition to your landscape. Rock walls serve clear purposes and complement your garden while they address your needs as cultivar collectors displaying your plants.

Click here for suggestions on composing a great hosta, iris or daylily photograph for publication in Eureka

And, imagine your photography published in stunning full-color spreads in the next Eureka Iris or Daylily Reference Guides? What do we look for when we feature a contributing photographer's composition?

Examine good compositional design as it relates to a Beautiful and Enjoyable Garden Design.

Part three looks at Pattern and Texture as elements of design and Repetition and Grouping as ways of achieving compositional unity.

Click here for part two in this series on Beautiful and Enjoyable Garden Design.

This continues the discussion of good visual design ideas for your garden.

This issue we're looking at value, color and form as the elements of design and dominance and alignment as the ways of achieving compositional unity.

In this part, we think about designing a garden for a Unified Composition. We'll examine Line and Shape as elements of design and Balance as a method of achieving compositional unity.