Do you have a high-end ultra-modern home with striking features that looks like it came out of a recent copy of Architectural Digest?

What about your yard? Does it look like it came from a Home and Garden magazine circa 1985?

This jarring contrast of cottage-style garden with modern home seems hard to understand until you think of the process. Homeowners do not design homes – builders and architects do. Yet homeowners are the ones often design their own gardens.