Yews? Are they the short green plants against house - maybe 2 of them on each side - one close to front stoop & the other towards each corner of house? Do you know the botannical name / type of yew & how long they’ve been in ground? I’m asking bc there are so many kinds of yews & more often the type used as foundation plants are overgrown & need a good trim.

Do you have any pics of this area in spring or summer? What are the 2 conical shaped shrubs on each side at end of walkway? A type of boxwood? Why are you considering moving the Crape Myrtle - the tree on right I assume?

They are boxwoods in fact, either side of the front stoop. I will get the names. The crêpe myrtle is not an elegant crêpe myrtle. There are different types and I was knew what I was doing and I think I want a different type of quit Myrtle or a weeping cherry. I just don’t know.

Have the plants in back reached their mature height? Can you move them to the front (or even around the sides) and maybe put in some other evergreens that get a bit taller - some appropriately-sized rhodies, hollies, pieris? Maybe a chamaecyparis or thuja?

:)

Dee

Hi sorry I have been remiss in responding. It was suggested that I MOVE forward the dwarf yews and replace with one of the following: yellow or red twig dogwood OR scuba roxanie. This was from an in person consultation

imo a solid foundation planting is only needed if you have an ugly house foundation, and yours is not ugly at all. You only need a few things like the boxwoods to scale the garden up to the house when everything else is dormant. Although small now, those yews will grow quite large unless you trim trim and trim every season, and if you look around your neighborhood I'm sure you'll see that few people have the time to do that and end up with oversized lumps and meatballs in front of their house.

The brick of your house is great, your walk is awesome, I'd bring the garden out and frame the walk as well so it's not lost in the lawn and the whole yard becomes a frame for your entry.

You have a forward slopping roof, so you have to be careful with what kind of plant you put there. If you get any snowfall, it can come off the roof and break the plant. That happens often to Rhododendrons. Azaleas not as much because their limbs are more flexible. I can envision Azaleas there.

Here are a few suggestions: