This colorful backyard serves as a special weekend retreat where you and your family can spend your free time relaxing and entertaining. Enjoy a quiet afternoon reading or lounging in the hammock under the romantic arbor, or host a cookout for your friends on the spacious patio complete with an outdoor kitchen. Both the patio and the hammock provide refuge from the hot summer sun--a vine-covered overhead trellis and leafy trees protect the patio, and the hammock hideaway tucked in the corner of the yard can catch a breeze while reflecting the sun's hot rays. Just right for a lazy afternoon snooze, the hammock structure nestles within an intimate flowery setting that encloses and enhances the space. Flagstone pavers lead the way from the patio to the hammock, following the gentle curve of the border, and flagstones mark the entrance from the gates at each side of the yard for easy access. Privacy-protecting evergreen trees and shrubs fill the rear of the property, and all are gracefully set off by a purple-foliaged weeping specimen tree located on sight lines from both the patio and the arbor. (In some regions, another type of eye-catching specimen tree is substituted for the purple-foliaged tree.) For color contrast, long-blooming, yellow-flowering perennials surround the tree. The designer includes large patches of other easy-care perennials that punctuate the rest of the landscape with splashes of color from spring through fall to create a welcoming backyard retreat. An arbor-covered hammock and a spacious patio with a kitchen provide comfortable spots for relaxing outdoors while enjoying the colorful flowering perennials.