Northeast Gardening: Hiding the utilities, 1 by evie_beevie

evie_beevie wrote:
I could use your help in figuring out what to do with the utilities boxes that are on the property line. My neighbor informed me she was planning on removing the juniper on her side, and I've been planning on removing the juniper on my side. So it sounds like we could use a plan to have a nice cohesive look.

As you can see from the picture, there's a lot of space to deal with, plus a tree. The sidewalk is East, and the larger junipers (my side) is on the North side. With the ash tree there's a combination of sun and shade.

I have various ideas to hide the utility box but no real details, nor an idea of what to really do. W/o research, I was thinking some kind of medium tall not too fat evergreen (yew maybe?) to plant directly around the box, which we can use as a backdrop. Or maybe put up trellis around it for vines and again as a backdrop. That's all I got so far.

Ideas? (and more pix to follow)