Max, yes,all thorns...except 'Nude Lady' ;^) [if she had thorns,she would be... 'Dressed Lady'] Stephania, yes, Yucca Do is correct. Many of my larger plants came from there. I don't have 'Lad Cutak',but I do recall seeing a photo of it that you posted here on GW. If I remember it right,it had shiny dark red leaves ? (A spelling and ID correction : D.'La Roija' above is really D.velascana 'La Rioja') Bob

FoxesEarth, I just love that daylily! (and combo). I've actually got the same 'white' daylily & lavender verbena combo, even with vinca! but I think its Joan Senior, along with another smaller pale yellow. This one is so much prettier and delicate, though. I, too, usually prefer the simpler forms, but this ruffle is just so delicate. We've got a double wild Tiger nearby and it is such a beauty. I've always loved just the simple, graceful daylily, since I was a young child ... and Lily of the Valley in Spring.

Yet in others (at least in N.O.) trellis or "decorative" fence toppings, wiring don't count. But, yes she needs to check. @ Isabella, I still think you have a blank canvas for a really lovely yard. If you think about it, your 2nd story view isn't a whole lot different than ANY urban view of your neighbors once you get your yard looking nice.

Would begin by designing the core of the home you want -- the main floor with a great room as your living area and your master bedroom suite all along the view side of the house. Count on adding a (6'-8' deep porch -- let your upstairs roof cover it so you can enjoy the space year round. Put the bedroom and great room on the side of the house with the view -- and include a room on the driveway side of the house that you can you can close off (control heat exchange) for the stairwell (with stair lift) in the approximate center on the road/driveway side of the house that will lead to the downstairs entry. ' You can put your kitchen with its smaller widows on the driveway side of the house as well as your master suite walk in closets on each side of that center stairwell room. You could put your laundry room with a powder room with their small windows on one end of the driveway side of the house and your master bath on the other end of the driveway side of the house so the frosted windows for each of them could be on the ends of the house rather than the driveway side of the house facing the road. Once you know the size of your main floor living area, you can create a couple of children's bedrooms upstairs within the attic -- steep roof or Mansard roof or Gambrell roof -- with gables with large windows or even sliding glass doors (with balcony) aimed toward the view and have that roof cover the full length porch on the view side of the house -- with the stairwell room between them on the driveway side of the house and a three room jack&jill bath on the view side of the house. Each children's room would have its own powder room along the outside wall with gable and frosted windows and each could access a third interior room between the two powder rooms and hallway with a tub/shower combination unit in it. Once you know the full size of your living area, build a full basement beneath it with a garage and a utility/storage room and, space permitting, a bonus room with small bath behind the stairwell room/entry that could be used as a guest room or home office as needed. By putting your two story porch/stoop and downstairs entry centered in front of the house, you could have one side of the ground floor as your two car garage and the other for your utility/storage and your bonus room with bath and, perhaps, even a screened porch and it not be obvious from the road that your main living area is on the second floor.