Designing landscaping cannot be done completely without considering plants to some degree. In fact, if you don’t keep plants in mind, you’ll end up with a beautiful hardscape that does not flow with the added plantings. For us, this meant that we had to make sure that our featured plants, or areas with plants, had to be included. This meant that we needed to choose some statement plants that would really help capture the modern, oasis feel that we were trying to achieve.