Yes, I think you are beginning to understand - groupings/staggered look instead of layered look says it perfectly. That being said, I think your sketch still has more of a layered look. The sketch really helps, I think. I would: take out the far right hydrangea. take out the far right pyramidal boxwood. move the far right rose back to replace the spot of the far right hydrangea. move the two geraniums to replace the spot of the boxwood. add three or four more of the mums to go in the spots of the rose and geraniums. add four? speedwells to go from the mums toward the witch hazel to draw your eye to the witch hazel. This gives you more of a fluid bed where the entire bed is the focus, not just the bay window. Reread that: The entire bed should be the focus, not just the bay window. Having larger plants (witch hazel, boxwood) on the left, and small plants (geraniums) closer to the house will 'draw' your eye to the front door. Take a picture of the front of your house and with a piece of plastic and dry erase pen, 'draw' in the plans. Just need to draw shapes. Make sure they are approx. mature height. See if you like more of the 'round the bay' plan better or the 'descending toward the front door' plan the best. That will help you decide which plants you want where.

tmac1, not sure but the post was 8 years ago. BUt that was why WoW posted about the 30 degree to limit the projection, but also disclaimered it based on the depth of the overhang.

Answered in the other thread. I would go with the Bay recommendation with a large center picture window.

Hi, Leslie, You can absolutely do a bay window configuration with fixed window and casements flanking. Take a look at the installation we did on a house here in Texas. All the windows we used on this project were from Andersen and the casements had a piano hinge which allows the windows to open wider than other hinge types allow. Patricia makes some important points, if you replace the bay windows but the rest of the windows on the front side of the house it may look a little funny if the windows can't be ordered to match the size and spacing of the grids on the windows above. That's definitely something you'll want to bring up with your window retailer, hopefully they can find windows that match but it may not be possible. As far as grids matching across style, you'll have to keep an eye on that when window shopping. In the video above the grids and frame profiles on the windows all align so unless the windows are open you can't tell at all that they are different styles. Not all window vendors design their windows with that in mind. Take a look at the examples below. Milgard's Trinsic series has good alignment on this slider and across the entire series but the Styleline series doesn't carry the lines across the slider window or any of the other windows in the series. - Ariana