Can you add pics?

And where is your septic field located? I think you need to add a couple of trees to nestle your home into the surrounding woodlands but tree placement depends on the septic.

the green area is the septic field...

I was think royal (Red) Maple tree or trees on front

second request.. where are you.. big city name ... no use making suggestions that will work in maine.. if you are in alabama ... eh??

second pic.. is that a wall.. or just some rocks spread???

ken

i would start by designing the porch and presumable walkway .. and then design some foundation beds .... and then ending in a few trees working around the septic ...

whether or not you start with the porch/walkway [budget perhaps] ... knowing what the plan is.. will help you move forward with other parts of the design ...

what are your goals.. do you want to garden.. or do you want a mostly carefree design...

how will you water .... even a rather carefree design.. will require up to two years of watering.. to get the plants fully established ....

good primer below.. note section one.. timing ... july/august isnt the best DIY planting time ...

when you can state a GOAL ... then the rest will follow ... just throwing out random plant names wont help.. without the goal ... and after.. a plan ...

ken

https://sites.google.com/site/tnarboretum/Home/planting-a-tree-or-shrub

I live in a 6a-6b planting zone Nova Scotia Canada

I don't know why people build houses without covered porches anymore. Anyway ken hit it, do the hardscape and trees first, buy a house plant the trees.

'Royal Red' is a purple leaved Norway maple which means it produces a quite large and dark tree liable to seed out into northern wooded areas.

You are basically looking at designing an entire new property, any but quite small projects like one little section of a garden don't necessarily lend themselves to being designed by strangers on a web forum.

Addressing mainly foundation planting (which the picture is a little far from to see it well.) I don't think anything tall in front of the house is going to work out for very long. It will be overgrown, smothering and blocking the windows. Plants shown are not specific, but are schematic, for organizational and spatial purposes. You'd pick plants that can achieve the scheme for your climate. Regardless of what is done for foundation planting, it's not going to look really good until the grass is refined into a blemish-free lawn. You'll need lawn trees nearer to the street, too. But that's a different, wider view, picture.

To give the house its due, make a nice, wide walk ... at least 4', better 5', and of an upgraded material if you can.

Lovely house. Hello to NS. I have relatives there.

I recently planted a similar bare front lawn in 6a. I only use native species. I love how it has turned out. This is only the second summer (all planted last year). You definitely need one main statement tree or large shrub. In my picture, you can see I planted a Blackhaw Viburnum, which i a large shrub that I’m training as a small tree. I then filled in some small & medium sized shrubs including black Chokeberry, Wild Smooth Hydrangea, Potentilla, St. John’s Wart, juniper, arborvitae, and Spicebush. I then filled in with perennials like coneflower, coral bells, iris, false sunflower, bee balms, Black-eyed Susan, obedient plant (white flower variety won’t spread like the purple), Joe Pye, and coreopsis.

i definitely recommend a more natural curving bed structure. My photos are above