Beginner Gardening: Four Season Garden Help, 0 by beyondink

beyondink wrote:
Thanks guys! I usually try to think about mature height and forget to think what it will look like in the winter or as it grows. I love all of your suggestions and I thought I would show a picture to help. The right side is the side in question. I moved things around a bit last year as it was becoming unbalanced due to the height of some of the faster growers. I moved a rose bush over by the stairs and I think I might move it to the back yard this year.. to give me more of a clean slate. The tall grass on the right is great, and I plan on dividing it this spring and I don't know if I will keep it there. It hides an ugly gas meter, but I want something that goes together more and helps hide the dish. There is a bunch of Lariope in the bed and some other flowering plants but I kinda want a rustic look as well and to flow with the other side. Those four bushes where there when we moved in and my wife likes them so I am stuck with them. I cut the boxwoods up to look like dwarf trees. I plan on making the posts and porch all cedar wood. The trim will be going to a warm brown color with sage green shutters.. so I think a nice rustic look would be nice as well as lots of flowering plants... any suggestions as to help it flow in the front would be great... I am loving the arborvitaes. just kinda not sure where to start.... thanks!