Hi Appledeco, I read your post early this morning but have put off responding while trying to think of how to phrase my answer. Anyway, here goes..... First of all, I am not a landscaper or a landscape designer, so feel free to ignore every word I say. Secondly, when you are landscaping a home, you should base your plant selection on at least two factors: 1) what plants will grow well in each planting location, in terms of the type of soil available, light exposure, the ultimate mature size of the plant, etc., and 2) the style of the home and what kind of plants will complement and enhance that style. But, you aren't doing that here. Instead, you are digging up plants from a different home and attempting to use them at the new house whether they are suitable for the location and whether or not they will enhance the style of your new home. (sigh) I swear, I am not saying this to be mean....just realistic. To me, what you're doing here is comparable to taking the pieces from one jigsaw puzzle and attempting to force them to fit into another jigsaw puzzle. I just don't see it working out very well and I'll explain why. Zebra Grass---these can get really big and they do best in full sun. They really aren't going to get full sun with a northeastern exposure so having less than ideal light might help keep them a bit smaller, but they still will be too large for the bed that currently has boxwood and they'd be way too big to plant in front of the rock wall. Unless you have an extremely dwarf form of zebra grass, they'll just bury that rock wall and hide the front door. Yucca--The will get too large for the current boxwood bed and also a bit too prickley to have close to a walkway or entrance. Yuccas are beautiful, but they don't belong along a walkway unless you have a really deep bed and can plant them far enough away from the bed that they won't reach out and 'grab' people as they walk by. Elijah Blue fescue is pretty compact and wouldn't mind the northeastern exposure. If I was going to put anything in the bed where the boxwood is now, I'd put the fescue there with a tall part-shade perennial or wall-hugging vine behind the fescue to break up that expanse of wall. 'Walker's Low' catmints are gorgeous plants, but they need room to grow and sprawl. If you wanted to plant them in front of the little stone wall, they might do well there if they get enough sunlight to bloom. I tend to put my catmints in out of the way places, though, and not out front and center because my cats like to lay down on top of the catmint plants, roll on them and crush them. Even if you don't have cats, undoubtedly some of your neighbors do, so you might want to put the catmint plant in the backyard or sideyard where it won't bother you as much if the local cats keep rolling on them and crushing them. I have one old tom cat who thinks it is his duty to roll on my catmint twice a day and smash and crush it to smithereens, although the other cats don't bother it much, so maybe some cats don't like catmint. As far as the window, it is better to use mini-blinds, plantation shutters, draperies, window shades or other internal window treatments for privacy. If you plant something very thick and dense in front of that window it will ruin your view from inside the house and it will give burglars a shrub or tree to hide behind while they're breaking into the house through that window. Instead of planting for privacy, I'd plant something fairly low growing and prickly or spiney to serve as a security barrier to anyone who might want to crawl through that window. You could use one of the forms of Chinese holly that have spiney leaves, or you might put your yuccas there if the kind of yuccas you have are fairly spiney or prickley. If you really want to go with an ornamental tree in the front, I'd plant one of the taller, tree-form crape myrtles and I'd probably choose a multi-trunk one. A crape myrtle will give your four seasons of interest. In the spring, you'll have the new foliage coming out, followed by recurring periods of bloom during the summer, and then the leaves turn some pretty shades in fall before they drop. During the winter, the trunk and limbs look almost like modern architectural elements, especially if you carefully select one of the crape myrtles with especially lovely bark. If it were my house, I'd save the zebra grass for a side yard or back yard, put the fescue in the boxwood bed with something, preferably a vine, behind it, put the yuccas in front of the window with a crape myrtle in front of them, and put the catmint wherever it would be happy in full sun, but not in a highly visual area just in case it becomes a 'cat toy' for the neighborhood cats. You know, you could take a photo of the house into a local nursery with you (and I mean a real nursery with trained and experienced nursery personnel, not a garden center at a big box store where many of the garden center employees know nothing about plants) and ask for them to suggest some plants. Or, you could drive around the neighborhood and see if you spot any landscaping ideas you could 'borrow'. From looking at the homes that are in the neighborhood around yours, you can see what works and looks appealing and in scale with the home and what doesn't. I'm sure you'll get some good suggestions over on the landscape forum too, undoubtedly from people a lot more experienced in landscape design than me. Good luck landscaping the new house. Dawn

Ohhh. Let me try that. Well, I still couldn't do it from PB, but I was able to download it directly. But it's gihugic. I feel like an idiot with all this. Luckily my kitchen has been done for a long time, and I had already done a bathroom reveal several months ago, so I probably don't "need" to post photos. But I'd like the option. And the post was "too long", (so refused) probably because the pic was too big. I give up.

shades, I have a dolly (no straps tho) but I still couldn't move things. could maybe stack a few smaller boxes on it. jed has some stretch bands? with hooks on the ends that he uses. I actually have 2 small ones like his. should buy longer ones. yes, I have different people say they'll come do stuff - but then something happens and they don't show up. I've been trying for over 3 wks to get new front tires. my mechanic said he'd get some for me and put on. then stuff happened at his shop (to do with wind storms here), after that his elderly mother needed help up in phx... I had a test scheduled and had to cxl it! he got here and took wheels off to have tires put on... then many days later on NYE day he made it here and put wheels on front. and left. about 2 hrs later I got in car to go to store and heard horrible noise when backing the car up. couldn't go anywhere. he finally made it back here on sat. Tires were wrong size. too big and were hitting the struts. He put those on the back and my back tires on the front so I could at least go to the store. he's coming back tomorrow to take car to the tire shop to have them changed and rotated back. good grief! that something so normally simple would be such a bear to get done. this has also had me stranded in my own house for days. I wanted to get out and pick up take out from local Mexican rest. - tired of my own 'cooking' - lol! (finally got my 'dinner' today!) Then Jed over watered my plants last sunday and ran me out of water - but I didn't know it... had to shut down the pump til more water could be delieved - on Wednesday! (that was today and I now have water again). just thinking of these things tires me... oh, and in between these things my son landed himself in the hospital in the Midwest with a blood infection. been in there 5 days, has something connected to him/in him by his heart. could have died / or lost his leg. will be able to go home (info from dd) but will need to return to hospital every day for 10 days to have more antibiotics put in whatever that 'thing' is attached to him. he says it's called cellulitis (what he has). I would have guessed that meant he had cellulite - he's way too thin and fit for that! And with my fibro I've been sleeping a ton again. and cold, damp weather outside here - that doesn't help. I hope anyone reading this survived...

ruth Anyone who has seen pics of your Liberty would say they are worth covering, and that certainly includes me. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and there will be no need to. My Liberty was in a very sheltered area where the snow remained the longest and it was a first year plant. I think it was unfurling but in that location it was fine. Sagae fared relatively well and since Liberty is a sport of Sagae it will give you an idea. Here is Sagae On June 23 – one month after pretty severe frost. (The one that turned Invincible to total mush)It does not look horrible but it does not look quite right either. If you enlarge the pic you can see some funky leaves (some I tucked in to hide for the pic). Some leaves eaten by deer. This area is somewhat sheltered too by overhanging trees. All in all if I were you I would protect your gorgeous Liberty if frost threatens them once they start to unfurl.