General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn today? Pt.33 Visit with Friends, 0 by hellnzn11

hellnzn11 wrote:
Ok I am asking for oppinions.

I painted my house a wild bright color called cinnimon cherry with silvery grey trim. I just got those free blocks and put a raised planter in front of the house in an area that faces north and gets a lot of afternoon sun where the planter is. I am thinking Floribunda roses in the back toward the house, in maybe white and pale pinks to tone down the house and make it cottagy. With midsized plants like dusty miller, grasses, glads, ornamental garlic, Allium etc. with low growing stuff in front and some stuff billowing over the sides.(heat tollerant plants).
I love crystal palace lobelia but it will fry there.

or
a white framed lattice wall, like maybe 31/2 to 4' tall toward the house in the planter with a rambler or sport climber spilling over the other side, with yellow and lavender and blues to play off the color a bit. What do you all think. I am going to post this on a couple of my home threads and soak in a lot of oppinion.(I like cottage or naturalized style. I have to do a lot of xeriscape plants and mediterreanian plants that the rabbits leave alone, so formal is out.

I need color because most of the stuff I have in front is evergreen with insignificant flowers except the 2 crepe myrtles. I have silver plants there too and grasses. The rose of Sharon and this other shrub(forget the name off hand that flowers, both don't) I will relocate them or make better soil drainage where they are, but that is why I need color in the raised bed and why I painted the house so bright.

Please feel free to give suggestions for this front bed.