With a little twist to more traditional concepts, this NE Austin front yard was converted into a colorful and unique landscape without going over the top. A buffalo and blue grama shortgrass lawn flows uphill, meets a line of carefully placed limestone boulders that follow a natural topographic line in the land, and transitions into a bed of weeping muhly, twist leaf yucca, bat-faced cuphea, bulbine, purple coneflower, fall aster, fragrant mist flower, possumhaw, spineless prickly pear, and Turks cap tucked into the shady corners.