This course taught us how to select and combine plants in the landscape to create rooms, evoke emotions, appeal to the senses, provide shade or other experiential quality, create habitat and aesthetic beauty, and work with the land for environmental purposes. This first project is a residential design in which I selected plants and designed a front, side, and back yard for a hypothetical family. I used the family friendly adventure film Jurassic Park as my inspiration for this project, as I wanted the landscape to appeal to both the parents and the children and their dog. In order to achieve a sense of exotic escapism evoked by the film, I chose architectural plants like agaves, aloe, and cacti, set among organic, earthen materials like gravel pathways, clay pavers, and flagstone stepping stones. I created areas for playful discovery by separating outdoor rooms with tree aloes which have an imposing stature but do not over-shade an area and implementing a hidden stump pathway to an elevated long-fescue lawn for the daughter to access as her own space for imaginative play. A bioswale at the front and lowest elevation of the property captures stormwater for infiltration.