That is so great. I saw an 3 x 6 glass panels door down the street and asked the lady if they were tossing, she said no....shoot. What are you gona hang in the middle of the doors...a chandlier or wind chimes or dangly prisms? You really need some signs on each door...like entrance, exit, going nowhere, been there done that, lol. But they will be beautiful with just the bright colors and window boxes with flowers. What a great DH

You could also try a mix of drought-tolerant perennials and groundcovers. A nursery at which I often shop has a beautiful bird-bath planting of various hens and chicks (which which you are already familiar), mixed sedums, Dianthus 'Tiny Rubies', Irish moss, assorted thymes and some creeping Jenny. I liked it so much I did a similar thing on my deck, adding blue-eyed grass into the mix for some height and grassy foliage texture to go with all of the succulent stuff. All of those things should be able to overwinter in your zone, although to be safe you might want to take the bowl off the pedestal and put it on the ground so it can have that for insulation. Ditto on the hole in the bottom, a must. A shallow layer of gravel at the bottom, too (or a goodly proportion of small gravel mixed into the planting mixture), to allow all excess water to quickly get to the drain hole. - Steve

Sorry about the screwed up subject header - I failed to catch it and correct it. I wonder why GW has the word "Wanted" already in the subject header...

Craftsman style house goes with my cottage style of gardening. One of the two blue spruce in the pictures, the one on the right, came down in a big rain and windstorm early this spring. So there is a lot more light in the front. That side is now in full sun. As to lots of land, I don't have it. I have a typical suburban size lot. What makes it all work here as far as everything I have planted is that the yard is all multilevel. Harder to deal with but more things can be squeeezed in. It would never all work if it was just level. The parking lot you can see across the street is to a 16 acre park and beach so its really very nice here in the summer. Its for our City residents but never crowded just afew people arounhd weekdays and not that much more on weekends. Next to it immediately adjoining so you can walk from one into the other is a large county nature preserve, this time all wooded. Also with shoreline accress. I remember going fishing there with my dad when I was a young child. Well, I went with him. He fished, I played around.