Garden boundaries always stand out—the trick is weaving them gracefully into the style of your garden. Top garden designer Ron Rule has suggestions.

Cut flowers from the garden or corner store are a fine if conventional way to bring summer indoors, but bedding plants, plentiful everywhere just now, make equally attractive and more novel arrangements.

One way to create instant impact in the garden is to use the same ordinary element over and over again. In this case that element is the wide-rimmed dime-a-dozen terracotta pot.