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Need planting ideas for bed along side garage.
Just finished building the house (zone 5- Michigan). We went with a
two-story side-entry garage, meaning the garage door faces the neighbors instead of the street. So the side of the garage now faces the street. The wall is 24' wide and the peek is about 19' above grade. There are two double hung windows with shutters on this wall facing the street. My father in law has built us a pair of window boxes for these windows that will also need to be incorporated into the planting scheme. A sidewalk leads from the driveway, near the garage door (which faces the neighbors) wraps along side the garage, then goes past our dining room windows, then curves towards the front porch entry. There is a 6' wide planting bed between the sidewalk and the garage, then it flares out in front of the dininng room windows before ending back at the sidewalk as it curves towards the front porch. We need planting ideas for this bed between the sidewalk and the garage/house. The bed between the sidewalk and garage is 6' wide by about 28' long, which butts up to the bed in front of the dining room windows with is about 10' wide by 15' deep. Along the garage my wife was thinking about planting low-growing shrubs under the two flower boxes, which would have several varieties of annuals, and perhaps a perrenial or two. Perhaps something cascading down like wisteria or a trumpet vine. Then between the two windows and on each side of them, we would plant a taller-growing shrub, perhaps a arborvitae or similar. Then fill in the area in front of the shrubs with a few select perrenials and many annuals. Would this work? Any better ideas? Please be specific with plant reccomendations wherever possible. thanks, Matt |
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