They both like to pluck flowers, pick fruits and berries, study insects, and get wet and dirty playing in the yard.
Children also are keenly aware of what draws people to gardens.
So, if you are searching for landscape design ideas, you could learn a thing or two by watching them explore. Children will be drawn to a curvy path that disappears into the distance. If there are water features, keep an extra-special eye on small ones because they'll run toward streams, fountains, ponds and pools. They are drawn to hills, grottoes, rocks, hollows and caves. Birds, butterflies, bees and other wildlife enthrall them, as does working the soil and watching plants grow and flower.