The Aull's had numerous acquaintances and found themselves exchanging plants, bulbs, seeds and gardening advice. Plants were ordered from all over the world.

This natural hillside features a border of Kerria japonica, commonly called Japanese kerria or Japanese rose, is a tough-but-graceful, spring-flowering, deciduous shrub that is native to certain mountainous areas of China and Japan.

The intent of the landscaping of Aullwood Garden was to blend in as much as possible with the natural setting and to follow the guidelines of arts and crafts landscape design—no walls, ability to see large parts of the property from any one place, flowing water, native plants, wandering pathways, blending with nature.

What was Marie's philosophy on gardening? "None really. Of course we want it to look natural," she once recalled. "We don't want an artificial look. It is a question of what your idea of beauty is....we don't have formal beds of flowers....we strive for variety. We try to make it harmonious with the background, which is woodland."