Follow Putah Creek through the Arboretum in March and the redbuds are in full magenta riot above the water — Davis teaches color to anyone paying attention. Garden Artistry brings that way of seeing to home yards around town. The lawn is the quiet ground of the picture, kept level and deeply green, while flowering borders, shrubs, and beds carry the composition from one bloom season into the next. Some weeks the work is a mower and an edger; other weeks it is a trowel and a long look at what the light is doing. The result is a yard that reads like it was made on purpose. Garden Artistry works throughout Davis and in nearby Winters and West Sacramento.