Illustration of the "before" landscape - pretty useless and uninviting, simply grass to mow!

Welcome into a Mythical Hodgepodge Garden! Felder Rushing's celebrated Mississippi cottage garden, parts of which are featured in countless magazines, is available to all in this HGTVGardens exclusive gallery.

Before - high maintenance and uninviting Illustration of the "before" landscape - pretty useless and uninviting, simply grass to mow!

Small Enclosed Front Garden With the assistance of a landscape architect, Felder enclosed his front garden and built a "green roof" entrance arbor. The garden was reversed - it currently faces the house rather than the road.

Front Garden View in the Home The front lawn is viewed from the house, not from the Road tv bracket installation services . and includes fire, water, round decks, and complete privacy - together with plants that provide texture and color every week of the year

Mississippi Gardens Have Winters, Too Even in winter the backyard has texture and colour - like a large iron fire pit

Back Yard - Where's Felder Lives Because Felder travels widely, he rents his "front" home and resides in a tiny cabin in the back - making that his main personal garden

Back Garden Repeats Front Garden Round Theme A raised boardwalk and a flagstone walk encircle the small backyard, with the cabin on one side and a collection of arbors and a fire pit enclosing a round mulch bed that's filled with classic daffodils in winter and spring.

Energy-Efficient Tiny Cabin Felder's little cabin is simply 250-square feet, including a tower kitchen which doubles as a solar heat collector at the winter and also slanted porch roof that offers summer shade while catching cool summer breezes. The deck is painted every year with the official Pantone Color Institute color of this year (in this instance 2013 Emerald Green).

Colorful Round Deck Repeating the circular theme of Felder's front and rear gardens, including a round daffodil bed (dormant in this sumemr scene), this deck is painted "Radiant Orchid" which was the Pantone Color Institute's 2014 colour of the year. Notice the arbors about the far side of the tiny rear garden.

Cover Arbors for Folks Comfort Across the back garden, opposite the cottage, is a string of comfortable arbors, some covered, for seats and to enjoy a roaring fire pit. Then entire back garden is surrounded with flagstone and raised walks.

Practical Hardscaping It takes over crops to make a garden function.

Teal Paint and Chairs Made of Bicycle Tires Color and whimsy are hallmarks of gardens - and this front deck invites relaxation and laughter.

Whimsical Shape to Rear Deck Who says a deck needs to be square, or even round? This is supported by long beams attached to iron articles.

Noisy Waterfall The small but heavy water backyard has a waterfall built over a small cave which amplifies and "goals" the noise towards the front deck - similar to cupping your hands can help direct your voice.

Fire Bowl Adds Special Element Nothing beats the combination of fire and water at a backyard - Felder considers we are "hard wired" to them equally.

Rainwater Collection Roof and Cistern The front porch has been redesigned to collect and funnel rainwater running off the home's metal roof, and can fully fill a 300-gallon cistern out of only 1 inch of rain.

Green Roof Entry Arbor This "green roof" arbor is encouraged by 14-foot iron I-beams and implanted with Liriope, Artemisia 'Powis Castle', 'Blackie' ornamental sweet potato, and cascading rosemary.

Contemporary Upgrade A new arched bridge joins the center deck, and the first waterfall backyard was filled in for a calmer appearance and less upkeep.

Plants from A to Z in a small backyard Felder develops a wide range of shrubs, flowers, vegetables, herbs, and tropical potted plants.

Heirloom Pepper 'Birds Eye' (Chile pequin) peppers are one of Felder's many heirloom vegetables that are unavailable at stores.

Sansevieria Collection Just a smattering of Felder's extensive collection of low-maintenance Sansevierias, which tolerate months of neglect when he's off on extended trips overseas.

Heirloom Daffodils Lots of Felder's dozens of daffodils, grown in a round back garden bed, came from his horticulturist great-grandmother's garden. Here are a few that were blooming one March day.

Little Flower Bed Felder plants only three little flower beds of seasonal annuals, which demand very little expense and maintenance, but jointly offer a big splash of color through all seasons.

Combo Veggies in Buckets Closeup of a few of Felder's vegetables and herbs, which he grows in painted buckets onto a sunny deck.

Salad Garden at a Recycled Pot An old cooking pot with drainage holes drilled in it grows a lush salad garden of leafy greens, onions, carrot, carrot, and edible-flowered violas to a bright winter deck.

Hosta and Fern Collection Felder includes a tiny raised-bed assortment of color plants including hostas, ferns, hecucheras, and companion plants, plus a splashy waterfall to keep things cool and humid in the hot Mississippi summers.

Truck Garden For several decades now Felder has developed flowers, shrubs, herbs, and vegetables - plus lots of "yard art" - in the back of his pickup truck, through all seasons. He drives thousands of miles a year with it living hot sunshine, winter cold. . .and hurricane-force wind!

Yard Art Personalizes the Garden Nothing too whimsical with this world traveler that will use a fantastic laugh at his garden!

Yard Art - St. Fiacre This statue of Fiacre, official patron saint of gardeners, adds a good touch year-round to an ever-changing seasonal backyard spot.

Recycled Metallic Scarecrow One of Felder's metal sculpture friends made this whimsical scarecrow - like crow - from recycled metal.

Vinyl Pink Flamingoes Felder includes a flock of America's most loved-to-be-hated icons, plastic pink flamingos. But there's a twist: Many of his own been personally autographed by Don Featherstone who patented the animals in 1957, and that famously stated that "before plastic, only wealthy people could afford bad taste!"

Tire Christmas Tree It took days to assemble just the right size tires to stack and then paint into a marginally natural-shaped "rubber bush" which is festooned at Christmas with decorations and lights such as nothing else in the area.

Glass Garden Art Felder also collects from nationally-known artists for interesting items in his backyard. In this case, he commissioned a trio of colorful glass plates, each almost four feet tall and hung between his front door and the street.

Cobalt Blue Glass Bottle Tree One of Felder's ten bottle trees is a custom made metallic bottle tree that adds some whimsy and color to the corrugated tin fence enclosing his backyard. It's lit up at night.

Blue Bottle Tree Felder wrote a book about his treasured homemade yard artwork - whimsical metal or wooden "trees" festooned with colorful bottles, a practice that goes back thousands of years to ancient Arabian folks stories of genies in bottles.

Felder and his Dog Rusty They love and entertain each other. 'Nuff said.