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I am looking for recommendations for landscape design for the front of my home. I am thinking of using two taller, but slim evergreens, one at each corner. I also like dwarf nine bark, Weigelia, candy corn spirea, daylilies and hydrangeas.
Any suggested design plans?

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  • last month

    I don't understand how this is the front of your home since there's no front door. Perhaps you mean this is the side that faces the street. In any case, I'd be inclined to use a small ornamental tree on the right side out from the corner at an appropriate distance. Actually, since we can't really see enough of your house or it's actually entrance, it might actually be more appropropriate to have it on the left side. But with what we can see, it's impossible to tell. Whatever other shrubs you use, they need to be very low so as not to overwhelm your small house.

  • last month

    Front ?

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    Something other than an evegreen on each corner? Something to draw the eye. Create a sense of intimacy.
    Here is one option with two versions:




    Have I misunderstood your question? Are you looking merely for placement of plants within the existing dirt planting bed? Do you have your heart set on an evergreen at each corner? Are the dirt areas at the bottom also planting beds?

    Let me know and I will rework the plan.

  • last month

    I suspect you are better off with just one evergreen on the right corner because you have relatively little room on the left. Given that your downspout drains to the right, I'd make sure your chosen tree can take the water. It's worth noting that your bed, which I'm assuming is the dirt, is not symmetrical.


    I'd add a smaller evergreen rhodo or azalea on the left corner.

  • last month

    It would also be helpful to know what direction it faces.

  • 24 days ago

    This is the garage exterior wall, which faces the road. This is South facing.

  • 24 days ago

    I will likely be going with something like this.

  • 24 days ago

    I was going to point out the same thing -- that the Crimson Queen and the Arbs are too big. You could make your bed deeper, but the arborvitaes will be above your roof in 10 years and dwarf the rest of your plantings. If you like that image, then research plants that will fit your space or make it bigger. I note that it's symmetrical and your bed as shown in your post is not. You could make the bed bigger and fit the Crimson Queen --- although tiny Japanese maples are not hard to find, but you need some other evergreen. Probably something other than an Arb. A good nursery should have a suggestion.


    I like the red of the maple and the ninebarks, both go with your siding, I don't like the candy corn spirea, though. However, there are a ton of spireas and you can pick something that isn't orange. The boulders look nice, but they are expensive. I'd probably go with some larger perennial, like a coneflower. Silver leaves go better with the reds that that orange, so I might do a lavender or artemesia instead of the boulders or the spirea.


    Artemesia

    Plants for North Texas · More Info


    AI makes very pretty pictures and it has some very nice explanations, too, but the fact that the plants are wrong for the space means that you can't trust the text to accurately describe the proposed garden. It sounds very nice, but that's all it is --- nice-sounding words, not a description of the garden it's proposing.


  • 24 days ago

    I don't like the symmetry of your AI design. Landscaping looks better in 3's and off centered. Give more depth too by planting some things overlapping each other but not just by single rows in front of one another. Stagger items like these three green columnar shrubs. Please excuse my complete inability to make a mock up.




  • 24 days ago
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    The perfect symmetry of the AI is bringing out the look of two eyes for the windows.

  • 24 days ago

    In my experience, designs that start out symmetrical never end up that way. This is due to differences in lighting and taller trees and shrubs growing up over the years, as well as occasional plant failures for mysterious reasons. So it might be better to start out with something that looks intentionally asymmetrical.