Beginner Gardening: This is my friend's house-, 0 by Equilibrium

Equilibrium wrote:
This is my friend's house. He is a long retired homicide detective who has no wife. He has one little dog. He is a very busy man who is on the go all the time. He's pretty involved in the community as well as with his family and also with Freemasonry so he does a lot of charity work. His youngest son has some younger children that come over and play in the yard so no plants that are poisonous. The man is never home and basically told me that cutting the lawn and turning on a sprinkler if he had to was the extent of his gardening and he wouldn't be interested in having to fiddle around with anything. He would like to give his home some more curb appeal. I told him I would help him make it a wildlife garden using carefree native plants and he said he wanted to fit in and look like everyone else but I could use some native plants as long as they didn't look wild or anything. He says he'd like to have plants that are easy to pick up locally and he doesn't want any of those plants that you have to replant every year. I told him what he wanted was out of my league but I'd get help with suggestions on how to "fit in" without looking wild. I kept meaning to start a thread. I'll add pictures from different angles of his property and tell you what's going on as well as some of the suggestions one of his daughters in law had. If anyone feels up to the challenge, feel free to offer suggestions as I plan on printing out the entire thread for him and giving it to him for his birthday along with the gift of a shrub or maybe a vine to go up his martin house pole. No invasive plants or weedy plants though as he won't want to be dealing with a bunch of seedlings.

Here goes- this is the front of the home and it faces west.