I feel a bit like a broken record (for the youngsters out there, it's a flat round thing that plays music in a machine, and when it's "broken", it skips and repeats the same thing over and over) but I'll write it again: Do a search of the forum for "blank slate", "foundation plantings", and "front yard". Read through the threads that turn up for a very basic education on what considerations are necessary when planning a landscape. There can be a lot more to it than getting some suggestions for specific plants and where to put them, and you may find that you get several completely different takes on what you "should" do, if not downright contradictory ones. Or you may get none, because landscapes are very personal things. Or at least they should be. Believe me, you will be more confused and unsure of what to do than you were before unless you are willing to take everything you learn and consolidate the parts you like into one plan. You wouldn't walk into a furniture store with a photo of an empty room and ask them what you should put in it. They'll sell you as much stuff as they can get you to pay for, but will it be "good design"? The alternatives are to hire a designer to help determine what will please you, and then help you pull it off, or to study, read, absorb, learn about different plants, experiment, and come up with your own design. I'll also repeat my suggestion that you go to the library or a very good bookstore and look at everything you can find on gardens. Once you have seen what is possible, you will know what you want for your own home. It's a beautiful home, a good landscape design will look awesome with it. Have you considered hiring a very good pro?

Yardvark 'Quote"\' Looking at the picture, you see that the three shuttered window sets are underscored by small hedges. Two individual shrubs would make one hedge so that's 6 plants total. It looks like the hedges should be about 3' ht. so one would want to select plants that max out at that height. (For myself, I'd rather wait for a slow growing plant than to choose one that grows too fast and won't stop where wanted. That's too much maintenance!) If a plant is easy to trim and not too fast growing, like Azaleas, I would consider it. The plant would need to tolerate a little shade (this presumes you limb up trees. Yardvark, I went to the nursery specifically to look for the hedges that will underscore the shuttered windows. I found several that i liked. I will list them and i want you to tell me if i should stay away from any of them and your opinion on what ones are best to worst to use: golden barberry, crimson pygmy barberry, wintergreen boxwood,winter gem boxwood, compact japanese holley, hellers japanese holley. If you say they are all ok to use under the windows i will make my choice and go with it but need your opinion on all of them first in case i should stay away from any of them. thanks chad

Thank you, do you have a link where I can post it there? I tried search for it but not sure if it is the right one.

The most recent photo makes it look closer to city walk than first pictures alludes to. If you would, take the foundation planting pictures from the front/center position while standing on the city walk. All pictures must be taken from exact same location, pivoting camera. Do not change the camera position between photos. Please give a full 180* sweep of slightly overlapping photos (street will show in first and last photo.) And then also take the separate distance picture from across the street.