Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Should I stay or should I go! A Design Question?, 1 by rcn48

rcn48 wrote:
Poor Ric, does he ever stop?? This heat must be killing him :(

Okay, been thinking about this for a couple of days. IMHO I'd take out the Forsythia and leave the others. With the beautiful blue of the Atlas Cedar? I'd love to see a Forest Pansy Redbud http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/31646/ planted there. They quickly form a nice canopy and you could plant Hostas or something around the base :) Then, I'm not sure how the corners of the house and the garden shed line up, but a small arbor connecting the two would look nice. On the right side, you could put up one of those lattice panels you can pick up most anywhere (usually about $20-30) which would save Ric from having to build it! LOL Then you could add another vine to crawl up the panel and over the arbor to 'disguise' whatever clutter might remain, maybe a darker flowering Clematis to pick up the foliage color of the Forest Pansy? Took the liberty and copied one of your photos - pasted in a Forest Pansy, "scribbled" in some plants around the base and roughly sketched in the arbor with "flowering" vine :)