Please Help Me With This Corner!

Marble, NC(Zone 7a)

Please, if anyone can give me ideas for this wall I sure would appreciate it. My landscaper, in an attempt to "keep it natural" incorporated several Arrowwood Viburnums. Very fast growing but after 3 years became very invasive not to mention the awful stench from the flowers every June making our deck the place to avoid. Someone likened the smell to a combination of wet dog and manure.... so out they came!
Now I'm left with this awful tall bare foundation wall on top of a rock wall. There is approximately 8' -10' of ground space from corner of house to the rock wall.

The deck side faces North and the bay window faces East.

I feel that more Rhodies will take far too long to cover and our Eastern Hemlocks have been attacked by the Wooly Adelgid and I'm already facing taking down a 30'er So that wouldn't work either. I'm at my wits end with this and want to get something in. I live in Pa Zone 5-6. THANK YOU!

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(Zone 5b)

Hi
I have the exact same spot but without a deck (mine is the front of my house...no pressure there to try to make it look good ;) Anyway here's a link I'm trying to model mine after. Of course I have to do it on each side, and I'm substituting some plants for others, but it gave me a great starting point. I'm in zone 5 also.
http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plans/special-spots/foundation-garden-plan/

(Zone 5b)

I had to run out before I could finish my post...anyway, I'm thinking of using some form of gold false cypress for year round color along with the green globe arborvitaes, and some midnight wine wegelia, and I have fragrant abelia in there (the only abelia I know hardy for our zone) and I have dwarf spruce in there....I like that plan in the link because it uses a mix of evergreens & deciduous. But you could use some green and gold evergreens in the back, and then some flowering shorter shrubs in front, and something that will drape over the stone (I have creeping phlox and golden moneywort, but I like bellflower too). Of course I didn't put a big pine tree there, but the plan gave me a starting point.

Marble, NC(Zone 7a)

Thank you Lynnie!
I have seen some gold Cypress that get rather tall and hadn't not considered those. I was shooting for blue but most evergreens that don't get too big, are very slow growing and very expensive! One thing I did't mention was that I have Ostrich ferns in the back that cover somewhat but not in the winter. I have some Creeping Jenny and Phlox.. why didn't I think of that?! Do I dare sticking some of that rather invasive yellow sedum in? I'm enclosing a picture of 2 June hosta's at the very end of my wall next to the deck. They look great but again, no winter coverage. Thanks so much for your input!! You have added some more food for thought which is exactly what I need. I surely was "running on empty"
Blessings to you,
Terry

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Waterman, IL(Zone 5a)

It sounds like the Viburnums were happy in that spot. Korean Spice Viburnums smell like perfume and they don't get that big.

(Zone 5b)

Wow what pretty hostas! I was at the big box store today, HD, and scored a weeping norway spruce, I have been wanting one for a long time....they had some good sized shrubs at reasonable prices....I was like a kid in a candy shop....

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