Call....ken....and....find...out....what....trees....wipe....out....all...hateful....hostas....

For starters, I'd see if I could get rid of all those peculiar stone enclosures. All of them. From what we can see, they appear to be far too shallow front to back for the house plantings.

and paint the drainpipe to blend in with the house…

Yes, it helps to have a clearer space to work from. Very hard to visualise with all the extraneous clutter. A spade is your friend here...and make some neighborhood offerings of unwanted hostas.

heresy.... crikey.. lol

seems to me.. youve been hanging around here for about 3 years.. how is it you are still calling yourself a novice???

can you step back and give us a whole view of the side fo the house..

i agree on the little bed knockouts.. make a uniform large bed if you want to garden out there.

and i seem to recall asking you numerous times.. how much time do you spend out there staring at the SIDE OF YOUR HOUSE...

i would probably go with some of the large flowering shrubs.. like lilac.. planted 5 to 8 feet out from the foundation... and hide that whole side of the house.. and the view into the backyard from the street.. but alas.. i cant tell from these pix.. if that would work ..

the tiny max 3 foot beds.. next to your 2 story house.. look dwarfish.. and nothing you plant i there.. will look to scale... go to scale.. or dont go at all... imo...

and how about showing us pix of all those old projects we helped you with over the years.. in a separate post i mean ...

ken

Yes I certainly owe you all some pics. You’ve been a big help along the way! With that being said, I’m. It interested in ripping the beds apart of expanding, etc. I know it limits what I can put in there

Huh…….??????

debra

Sorry. I’m NOT interested in removing all the landscaping bricks etc

black-eyed susan, coneflowers in purple, red, orangr, butterfly weed, bee balm, hydrandea, peonies all leave lovely foliage after they bloom at various times in the season. Your local nursery - not big box store - can be a great help.

How much sun does that area receive? If it’s full sun, I’d go with a small panicle hydrangea (bobo, tiny quick fire etc) and some perennials like echinacea, salvia, nepeta. Salvia can really soften the edges of those rocks and gently trail over. I have some similar stonework and you can’t see it in midsummer with the salvias in full growth. You could also do some shrub arborvitae that’s small, like tater tot or Mr bowling ball.

Coneflowers are pretty come in anything from white to pink to yellow and oranges. You can get them tall and small. For evergreen, creeping phlox is good. I have some heaths that survive my Z5b winters, but you have to be careful.

I have a ton of hostas, too. I put them under trees where not much else grows.