Commenter Joanne Rigutto of The Little Homestead (Mulino, Ore.) chimes in with a comment on edible plants and their potential to do double duty as ornamentals:

Almost any plant we grow for row crops in food production has potential for ornamental landscaping. I think one of the problems is that we normally don’t think of those plants in anything other than a production environment. But once you really start looking at them, they offer a huge range of shape, texture, color and structure.

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