For their West Linn garden design our clients were looking for a low maintenance landscape that was interesting throughout the seasons. We started with some white blooming dogwood trees and added groundcovers, perennials and shrubs to bring colorful flowers in the spring, summer and fall. Also included were grasses to bring some movement and texture in the fall and winter. The colorful conifers established an evergreen backbone to the hillside, along with the lavender hedge and kinnickinnick groundcover that was planted to grow down to soften the stone wall.