Organization of these dooryard gardens relied on a bilaterally symmetrical plan centered on the walkway to the front door. In a small dooryard this would be the only path, but larger gardens had side paths which allowed access to all the planning areas. These could be rectangular or circular in form and paved in brick, gravel, or sand. Unfortunately the dooryard garden was a victim of changing fashions in design, so that no preserved examples survived intact to modern times. But the restoration of gardens at the Mission House in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, suggests the eclectic mixture of annuals and perennials within bordered beds that was probably typical of many dooryard gardens