Beginner Gardening: Let's Play Landscaping!, 1 by goshsmom

goshsmom wrote:
A little more info: the living room faces the back of the property. I tried to make the tree circles brown and the shrubs green, but my artistic skills are limited. And yes, the flower beds have names. I'm disabled, but very lucky to have a great "yard guy." I named the beds so he could know where to plant, or where to pull up things. I used up my immediate family names & I'm onto friends now. It's wierd but helpful.
The house has a pretty large sized soffit. It keeps the basement nice and dry, but the roof & soffit sizes keep most of the area by the house shaded. The front of the house has the most southern exposure.
This is a picture of the front of the house as it was when we first bought it. The yews and the tulip tree on the right of the picture are now removed.
Pat