Beginner Gardening: August - how do you make the best use of your garden space?, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
We had a similar experience here when we had almost all the green meatball shrubs removed at each side of the courtyard to make a rose garden and a Japanese iris garden. The reaction was identical with many neighbors: Flowers? In the front of the house?

Since we're on a corner we have another front side to the house and we stripped all of that grass and made a daylily garden. People always stopped to chat but the actual neighbors were aghast...until they bloomed. Now we've deleted many of the daylilies and may have a dozen left since we planted more Japanese irises and hydrangeas.