For 25 years, interior designer Patricia M. Wheeler has been meeting clients in showrooms, helping them select furniture, lighting fixtures, cabinets, counter tops, draperies, paint and tile. Now she is inviting them to join her in local plant nurseries as well.

... planted trees and flowers in the yard of her first Florida home in 1983. But it wasn't until 10 years ago, when she and her family moved into a house with a large back deck overlooking a lake in Altamonte Springs,