Visit any independent plant outlets you have in what you consider to be your service area and see what they have. And also appeals to you. One on the island I live on now even has a specific table displaying pots of shrubs they are designating as deer resistant.

Regarding box be forewarned that a spoiling condition known as box blight is now present in North America. And first got going in this country over on the side where you are, so that by now there has been plenty of damage. With their being a quite small list of box varieties that are sufficiently resistant to be considered suitable for new plantings going forward (do a web search for something like "box blight resistance" to find related discussion).

big city location would help .. as z6 is about half the US and rather divergent ...

with that darn sidewalk.. [i hate buliders and architects for the lack of imagination in dealing with this] .... if you want any kind of shrubs or conifers.. or small trees... work out into the useless lawn ... with that couple feet of garden bed.. you really dont have space for anything but annuals and perennials inside the walkway .. unless you want to be out there shearing twice a year .. ergo.. you would have to kill me.. before i ever planted box in there ...

and if those two shrubs are still by the garage.. get rid of them also ... really.. one of them is square.. whats that all about .. lol ... and im thinking it might be an invasive burning bush ... but that is just a gut reaction... but i just had taco bell.. so take that for what its worth .. lol... maybe my gut is lying to me ...lol ..

also.. while its barren .... work that soil off the lattice under the deck ... avoid future problems ... either dirty plastic.. or rooting wood ...

and be honest.. is the lawn used for anything other than complaining someone has to mow the lawn every few days ... if not.. start with some nice trees out on the lawn ... make you landscape 3 dimensional.. instead of focusing on a few feet right on the foundation ... never forget..... foundation plants are to hide the foundation.. not to BE PLANTED on the foundation.. thats the root problem with your square shrub ... its a giant plant.. planted when it was a babe.. on the foundation. with no real idea of its future potential ... lets not do that again ...

and as part of the 5 year plan.. i would hide the foundation on the extreme right.. and no one wants to look at the basement walls ...

do you have two front doors .. reminds me of the old doctors houses in my rural town ... kinda cool ...

anyway.. plan and plant your backbones.. trees ... in teh proper planting season ... plan out future shrub locations not in the foundation ... and for this year.. just plant some pretty flowers in teh beds you now have...

and if it takes 3 to 5 years.. so be it ... it will be stunning ...

if you want the instant gratification.. as embo noted.. just go to big box.. and buy whatever strikes your fancy ... but search out future potential.. before you plant that babe which will end up a 10 foot problem ...

ken

I wouldn't plant things up against the house. You don't have much room and your foundation is attractive as is your house. I'd plant an island around a decorative tree to give myself something to look at off the porch, and also compliment my house. And call it a day if you have deer. You'll have to spray things constantly with deer repellent anyway. Around me, deer eat every single evergreen, even ones they're not supposed to like . . . spruces for example . . .

Some day lilies up against the house if you don't mind the look of the foliage. Once a year midsummer very pretty flower show and done.

Repeat blooming daylilies are on the market. 'Stella de Oro' for instance has been prevalent at outlets in the past.