Specialty Gardening: need help starting over to get the cottage look going again, 1 by want2bee

want2bee wrote:
This is where we are starting over! I need some help on getting a cottage look going again...have been here about two weeks now and I made the beds out front. trimmed the trees and paintted the front steps white, painted the window trim and we removed the stump, hauled in some gravel, and have ordered shutters in a light blue, so it will blend in with the Morton building... But I want to rip out those evergreen things in front of the big window and fill in with ???? I also want to re-do the side walk and make it curve and re=do that bed also... looking for all ideas to make this old place really stand out..as you can see in the pic's we are the oldest house in the area, most of the houses around us are 400,000. and up.... I would love to bring back the old garden look, like they have been here forever...I know the place has great bones all the pine trees where started from tiny seedlings....
would love to here your thoughts