I can't tell if that's smaller lawn grass or a taller something. Are the flowers miniscule, or just regular-small? Can't see the little blooms clearly but made me think of Trichostema.

One or two mentioned not liking green flowers. Generally, I don't either like I've seen a greenish zinnia and echinacea. But I always thought Bells of Ireland were kind of nice for a change but haven't felt a strong urge to try to grow any. There is a peony I really like at Klem's that is white with a green center. I also rather like artemesia if it isn't overdone and ferns, but the latter two aren't really flowers. Here's for you people who don't like marigolds, Dusty Miller and geraniums lol. They're all there. I was kind of proud of this, and picked up that dracena or whatever it is at Lowe's. The marigolds I had grown from seeds I'd saved and they have been prettier as the summer goes along or I had them too crowded. I have new pots for there and not sure what to put in them, not what's in these for sure. But I'm thinking of LLB and wonder what might go well with those, if anything. I was perplexed by that blue patch in the upper left-hand corner, but figured out what it is, my neighbor's blue steps.

I have a gravel path (actually drain rock so larger) over landscape cloth. It is only about 3 years old and I know I will have to decide if I would rather use some kind of screen/wire to hold it away from the soil in the future, but for now I have a super thin layer of the rock so moving it to replace is mostly an one day pain in the rear. I get a few weeds in the stuff that lands on the rock and ends up on the weed cloth, but not that hard to pull a few weeds here and there. The walk goes right by the house so I don't want to use bark-fear of adding more termites, the gravel is hot enough, concrete would cook us and I can't see spending money on watering lawn (besides part it is over a leech field that I don't want to add that much water too anyway) I will probably start at one end with some kind of walkable ground cover, just have not had it that high on the to-do list to start on that yet. Living in Santa Barbara, the no water cacti gardens over lava rock front yards were common. Back in the day everyone seemed to want to have one. Guess if having painful to touch lava rock was not unfriendly enough adding cacti made it better..... I can top all of your plastic bits woes. My dad LOVED using black plastic. Plastic soil bags, Yellow heavy plastic.. grocery store plastic veggie bags. Perfect for killing weeds. right. He would put something on it to weight it down so it would not blow off, but over time leaves would fall and next thing you know, the plastic was gone. So he would add a new layer. After awhile he discovered that maybe picking up old sheets of vinyl might last longer. Of course that was harder to find. Then he hit on the mother load of free material to lay down on the yard. And even better, he could lay it upside down where he wanted people to walk and it would add traction on that slippery clay. And it would not blow away. Used carpet. Fun is trying to dig through loopy strands of carpet (the backing as long since vanished for the most part leaving miles of plastic/manmade yarn for you to pull. Hitting a layer of vinyl that pulls in up small rotten squares, Just to find layers of "lasagna gardening" gone wrong with multiple plastic layers. My point is to think about what you might end up doing in the future and just how hard it will be to undo what you are working on if you change your mind.

What is with all the orange hating? Tsk Tsk! I love orange, its my favorite flower color now. I also love magenta too. And lime green and black! Has anyone looked through Sarah Raven's "The Bold And Brilliant Garden"? Now she has a pallette after my own heart! Now to the colors that I cant stand: #1 White! God, I hate white flowers. Can we say, "Stick out like a sore thumb in the garden" and come on, white? I can't think of a more boring and bland color, except beige(thank God flowers don't come in biege), but it also just seems so stark and harsh and cold at the same time. And it's not really a color. Yick! #2 Pastels! What is up with these? What washed out, bland wimpiness! I don't get what is so poplular about these colors-lavender, baby pink, apricot, mauve, lilac, peach, primrose yellow, etc. its like Laura Ashley threw up!