Please stand facing the back of the house and take a photo so we can see current hardscaping and landscaping. What's your budget?

Budget: Lay down stepping stones between the screen porch and other entry. Plant the sides with a mix of schrubs to create the pathway. Use stepping stones that match your main entryway steps.

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Install a standing white pergola that connects screen house to your other entryway or perhaps the entire back of the house. Again, we need more photos.

Thank you i will take more pics

Have a walkway installed between the porch and the other walkway, then do plantings on either side of it. Maybe a mixture of some low evergreens, like boxwood, and annuals.

Also how much sun does that area receive?

Fancy: pathway with white pergola overhead connecting the two entrances.

Pic from n left facing back of house , right facing driveway

Oops 1st pic facing driveway
2nd back of house

Thank you
I do have left over bricks from the stairs at the back door . So a walkway in the same pattern or width of existing bricks?

If you have enough bricks from current pathway, then use them to make similar width path. Also remove brick "wall" on left and extend your current planting bed up to the new pathway. Add small low shrubs on the right.

Clearly, you have a knack for gardening, it's just a matter of tying what you have into the new space. Your new focal point walking from the driveway to the house will be the screened porch door and steps.

Straighten out the existing brick walkway and continue it to the screened porch steps. It looks like you have some sunken spots, get it all level and if you don't have enough brick, create a pattern with stone so both sides match.

Caps from a big box store for the top of your paver wall will level it out and close up the gaps. You won't need very many.

Use a screen to cover the utility boxes and unless you think you'll sit there, relocate the chairs. The area by the fountain looks like a great spot to sit and enjoy your flowers and the sound of the water. While you're working on walkways, you may want a wider path to that lovely spot too.

Placing flowering pots on each side of both sets of steps will add bright and cheerful notes, do your thing with plants, mulch, stones and flowers and be sure to include the area to the right of the house steps. Pressure wash all the gunk off of the bricks and driveway. It's a sweet little area, you'll enjoy your new porch.

I wouldn't start the new walkway out at the same width, I'd start it even with the width of the stairs, and then flare it gracefully to meet the other walkway. Curves are more pleasing in landscapes than straight lines, unless it's a very formal garden.

Something like this:

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Continue the brick pavers you have on one side of the walkway to go to the porch door/steps. Then plant around the brick on the house side.

Grow a beautiful flowering vine up the wall...clematis? I know..electric panel..clematis would allow access if needed. I vote for continuing brick pathway and removing little wall.

Nice place to sit..your new screened porch!

OR loads of beautiful pots with flowers..some taller to fill in the blank space of the wall with elect. panel. Maybe moss growing around pavers?

Plant some of your favorite blooming plants all around the outside so you can see the pretty flowers when sitting inside. Consider the views from inside as much as outside. Possibly use pots sitting around the perimeter. Plant the flowers YOU like - we cannot tell you that - ones with tall blooms. Consider whether there are gutters and where rain would wash into flower beds.

Hi Kimberly, what a lovely porch with an equally lovely view! A great place to sit an relax with a cup of coffee, first thing in the morning on a non-work day. Since the porch is off your bedroom, I am thinking you don't want your guests to use the porch as an entrance to your house. If you extend the brick walkway, your guests will be drawn to it, thinking it is the path to the front entrance. Thinking you want some kind of hardscape by the stairs to walk on during the wet season. if you have leftover brick, you can place them in a pattern into a square about 1' x 1', and place them at comfortable distances--make it like a stepping stone. Deborah had a great idea planting clematis by the electric panel--that would hide it beautifully. You may want to plant tall, billowy plants like pink pampas grass next to the walkway from garage to house that will prevent your guests from trying to access the porch. You could still see the porch through the grass, but you would have a natural barrier preventing access. It will also give you a backdrop for shorter plantings in front of it (looking from the porch side) and won't be so thick that it obscures your view of who is coming to your door. Pampas grass grows fairly quickly, and it is easily manageable--you can cut it down to 1' high and it will grow back in spring. You don't want to let it grow higher than the roof over your walkway. While the grass is growing in, you could always attach a few sheer panels (you can pick up sheers at a thrift store for $1. each) to the covered walkway, just between the first two posts. It will give a little privacy, and guide your guests to the front door instead of your bedroom. If the area around the porch stairs is wet most of the time or has poor soil, put your favorite plants in pots or large planters where you can control the growing conditions. Good luck and post photos of what you have done! :-)

Hi, I'm avery and I think that you should plant bushes,small trees, and flowers after you do that put rocks in the surrounding area like this but with rocks instead of mulch

Hi, I'm avery and I think that you should plant bushes,small trees, and flowers after you do that put rocks in the surrounding area like this but with rocks instead of mulch

I would use the same bricks as the other side and make a path to the porch. I would also extend the flower bed to your screen porch and put a screen to block the utility meters. How did you get the porch to fit flush against the siding?. Our house has a back porch, but there are small gaps between the porch frame and the house siding.

They removed the siding first, added the porch, and then caulked the gaps.

I appreciate all of the wonderful ideas. I am truly honored at inputs. I think i love the idea of removing the brick wall to the left and adding that as part of my new space’s flower bed. I will add caps to the rest of the stones. Great suggestion i had no idea they exist! I will add flowering vine to electrical panels . I like the idea of rocks instead of mulch as i do believe its a lower drainage area. I definitely need gutters 👍
Im cant wait to do it all and resend pics. Thank you all so much !

Looking forward to seeing your finished product!