The sunny parkway is home to lots of vegetables and other food plants, as well as some ornamentals.Food is beautiful. Arrange it with an eye for form and color, like you would an ornamental planting and you’ll have a showpiece.Be sure to mix in some flowers. They attract pollinators and beneficial insects and add so much beauty.Contrasting colors and forms make for an interesting composition.Making a front yard food garden beautiful respects the neighbors, who will enjoy your plantings as much as my neighbors do.Color is essential to any garden, even a veggie-dominated one.I was so pleased with my cabbage. It almost glowed from the inside, bursting with life.The garden includes extensive native plantings which will attract native wildlife. It’s a certified habitat garden.The previous owner had done a great job with the hardscape. Owen added containers and filled them with vegetables and flowers.This lovely space makes lots of food, including blueberries, apples, strawberries, and a wide assortment of annual crops.This is a great space for lounging, dining, and entertaining.The half barrel was painted to match the house colors and combined with other pots to create a pleasant vignette.The two young apple trees are special varieties that grow in a narrow spire and love containers. The apples are mighty tasty.An ornamental sweet potato adds foliage interest.The backyard in winter shows off its bones.Beauty shows up unexpectedly at times. Gardens are an adventure.No garden in the Pacific Northwest should be without blueberries. They’re super easy and productive.Verbena ‘Homestead Purple’ and Lobelia ‘Crystal Palace’ make a handsome, easy combination in a pot.This hanging planter grows Bacopa, bellflowers, and parsley. There’s no reason not to grow food in a hanging basket.Toothsome chives coexist happily with an assortment of flowers in this hanging basket.Basil and carrots grow in this planter, which was painted to match the house.Basil loves the heat that is radiated from the masonry walls.A purple basil this time, looking good with beets in a container.Red mustard looks great with this bat-faced Cuphea.Male bees don’t have a home, so they sleep outdoors, as on this parsley inflorescence.Native mason bees are an important pollinator insect. This tiny bee house gives them a place to lay their eggs.The bench is made from milled local wood.A fall sowing of crimson clover adds nitrogen and organic matter to the soil and in spring the flowers are loved by bees and people alike.Here’s a closeup of those gorgeous clover flowers.