Garden Lover answers:

Topiary. Http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=topiary&fr=ush-ans

Here are a couple of Topiary Frames on eBay…
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Garden Lover answers:

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. It grows easily in the tropics but requires a lot of care in temperate climates as it is killed by frost or drought. Each flower is huge lasts only one day. So if your story is based in a temperate climate you have a suitable one there. I grow this and I have to keep it in my bedroom all winter.

It’s not rare – many garden centers sell them as houseplants – but they are hard to keep as in order to flower they need more light than you get in most houses and the plants grow very big. They flower in the later half of the summer.

Make sure you use this particular hibiscus, some hibiscus are hardy and will grow anywhere.

Garden Lover answers:

You are probably thinking of Chad Engle of Barbourville, Kentucky, his website is at: http://www.chadengle.com/. He does take nice photographs…

Of course, a local photographer may be able to arrange what you want. Just get permission from a flower shop or person with a live flower garden and go to a farm supply and buy a bunch of bunnies. You can probably sell the rabbits back after you are done or just give them back, if your project is important enough. The bunnies are fairly inexpensive and there are also stuffed bunnies….

Garden Lover answers:

You may want to design a circular flower bed. The idea is to create visual interest by using symmetry and by varying the height of the design elements. The center should be something of height — whether it is a fountain, a small tree, or a very large rock. It is then surrounded by circular plantings of medium height plants, followed by the lowest plants along the edges.

You may want to vary the bloom times of the plantings that form your circles within the design — tulips for spring closest to the center, followed by progressively later blooming plants (or vice versa). For real punch, you can pick colors for each layer that are opposite each other on the color wheel — orange alternating with purple, or red alternating with blue. For something more harmonious, pick colors beside each other the color wheel — soft pinks and blues, for example.

Annuals will give you a longer bloom time, so are more often used for circular flower beds than perennials. If you live in a hot dry part of the country, then your design might feature more of the desert species, arranged and layered in the same way I’ve described above.