I'm curious about the reasons behind these particular selections. There are a fair number of small to mid-sized maples that would do well in your area.

The Victorian style of gardening was dead, dead, dead right around 1900. It survived in public parks and railroad stations but most people had come to dislike it intensely. One of its chief features was the bedding-out of annuals, both flowering and foliage plants. I am now seeing some of these foliage plants, like coleus, so popular in the 1800s, popular again. Huge foliage plants such as cannas were also big with the Victorians and scorned after 1900. William Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll began a revolution in English gardens. They advocated naturalistic planting styles and perennials. They also wrote books. Jekyll designed gardens for the very rich in England, never stirring from her hidden home at Munstead Wood, which I have had the great good fortune to visit. Jekyll was inspired by English cottage gardens but her gardens were planned for the upper class. Her books were very popular and well-to-do Americans bought them with enthusiasm. However, American gardeners soon found that English garden books do not translate very well in our climate. A whole new garden literature, most of it written by women gardeners, arose. These books were, I believe, the largest influence on American gardens from 1900 til WW2. They generally showed naturalistic groups of perennials in geometric beds. Borders were hugely popular, as well as the style described above, so often with a sundial at the center. Sorry for the long post!

Thanks everyone for you input. After much discussion and sleeping on it we have decided not to buy the house. I think if I were closer to retirement we might reconsider but we kept thinking about paying for a house for 2 years that we couldn't live in it and decided it wasn't a good idea. We absolutely loved the house. It was 4162 sq ft.on 22 mountain acres. Indoor pool, spectacular great room, 4 br suites. Would have to buy appliances for the kitchen. They had resurfaced the counter tops and some of the kitchen cabinets with white glazed tile which I hate in a kitchen. That would have to be redone. Oh, did I say it was selling for $99,900?!!!! With DH's past heart attacks and back surgeries I'm not sure about the level of care even though there is a new hospital there. Just for the record I was born in Huntington, WV and lived in a little town probably less than 100 miles from there when I was a baby. My mother was born and raised in WV and my Daddy was born in Alabama but raise in eastern, KY not far from WV. Linda

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