The Vegetable Patch Goes Luxe

Start working on those business plans. Thanks in part to rising food prices and health scares with commercial supplies, some people are paying tens of thousands of dollars to have landscape architects design and install elaborate vegetable gardens. These homeowners regard their plots as edible showplaces, where they take guests on tours of manicured beds of baby bok choy and Japonica maize the way others show off their koi ponds and rose bushes. Read more here or view a slideshow here.