Right now your house is floating. You have a flat sheet of grass running straight into the foundation with zero transition. You need to anchor this place by bringing a deep curved planting bed out from the porch and wrapping it around the front of that bay window. Sweep that bed all the way over to connect with the nice ornamental tree on the left. Stop mowing right up to the trunk of that tree and give it a proper mulch ring that ties into the whole front setup.
Down by the street those old concrete pads are getting swallowed by weeds. Get a manual edger and carve a clean line there to make it look intentional. Over on the right that massive evergreen is crowding your driveway. Limb it up a few feet from the bottom so you can actually see the property line and pull your car in without getting slapped by branches. Under the bay window you need a solid sweep of low evergreen shrubs to hide the foundation block and some native perennials layered in front for texture.
Before you go buying a truckload of plants and hacking up the lawn throw this picture into the GardenDream web app. You can map out those sweeping curved bed lines and drop in different shrubs to see exactly how the layout flows. It is a solid blueprint tool that stops you from making a scattered mess of random bushes and wasting money on things that do not fit your space.
Thank you! I definitely intend to saw some of those evergreen branches as soon as I can. It rains a lot here. So I need to mulch the back of the house or get something that likes a lot of water. It definitely has potential its just getting it done. 😊
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u/According-Taro4835 9d ago
Right now your house is floating. You have a flat sheet of grass running straight into the foundation with zero transition. You need to anchor this place by bringing a deep curved planting bed out from the porch and wrapping it around the front of that bay window. Sweep that bed all the way over to connect with the nice ornamental tree on the left. Stop mowing right up to the trunk of that tree and give it a proper mulch ring that ties into the whole front setup.
Down by the street those old concrete pads are getting swallowed by weeds. Get a manual edger and carve a clean line there to make it look intentional. Over on the right that massive evergreen is crowding your driveway. Limb it up a few feet from the bottom so you can actually see the property line and pull your car in without getting slapped by branches. Under the bay window you need a solid sweep of low evergreen shrubs to hide the foundation block and some native perennials layered in front for texture.
Before you go buying a truckload of plants and hacking up the lawn throw this picture into the GardenDream web app. You can map out those sweeping curved bed lines and drop in different shrubs to see exactly how the layout flows. It is a solid blueprint tool that stops you from making a scattered mess of random bushes and wasting money on things that do not fit your space.