Northeast Gardening: What's blooming? #14, 1 by David_Paul

David_Paul wrote:
Photo below is the area of which I could use some suggestions. Need something to put under, in back, to the sides of and behind the Heptacodium.

Do need a narrow walkway to that nice new electric box (for what that ugly thing costs me this month, they could have given me something not so ugly). Anyways, I can come out quite a way in front of the Heptacodium. We're slowly improving the house and this spring (hopefully) both porches will have some work done on them. So putting in shurbs is not doable now. I was thinking bulbs.

Some muscari grows, in a haphazd fashion, there now. Might be from around when the house was build in 1884. Not set on anything in particular but would like to have things which might have been there a century ago. First priority, however, is not creating an heirloom garden but looks.

The area doesn't need to be a focal point all summer. By July, a long flower border to the left of the path will screen, from the street, what is there.

Any suggestions on how to minimize the impact of that electric box would be appreciated too!