The Front Yard

My front yard is about 49 feet wide by 40 feet deep (not counting the driveway, front sidewalk, or city swath). The area is roughly cut in half by the sidewalk leading up to the front door. There is a small, one step stoop at the front door.

Facing the house, on the right hand side is a large, roughly triangular shaped bed that was my 2015 project. This bed has a Hydrangea (‘Limelight’), Russian Sage, Shasta Daisy (‘Alaska’ and ‘Crazy Daisy’), Spring Anemone (Anemone Sylvestris), Daffodils, Blue Grama Grass (‘Blond Ambition’), and a Tree Lilac that has been turned into a bush by a marauding deer. I am considering planting a different tree, but have not decided yet.

The above pic is the triangle bed while facing toward the house. The bright green bush is the Hydrangea.

The above pic is the triangle bed while facing the street. The bush on the left is supposed to be the Tree Lilac. The grayish-green things are the Russian Sage. You can't see the Grama Grass yet; it is too short.

Along the front of the house, there are beds. Facing the house, the bed on the right side has a set of Holly bushes, 5 Boxwood (‘Baby Gem’) that will eventually grow into a short hedge under the front window, Knockout Roses (‘Radrazz’’), Rough Stemmed Soladago (Goldenrod ‘Fireworks’), Spring Anemone, Fall Anemone, lots of Mums, Tulips,  Scilla, Snowdrops, Prairie Smoke, “Mexican Daisy” (don’t know the proper name), Columbine, self-seeding Love in a Mist, Pasque Flower, Threadleaf Coreopsis, Variegated Leaf Iris, and a few annuals and some other part-time self seeders (Balsam, Snapdragons).

In the above pic, the Holly bushes are toward the right. They will be your landmark in a later post.

On the left side, there is another row of 5 Boxwood (‘Baby Gem’) under the other window, an arc of Dwarf Korean Lilac (‘Miss Kim’), a zig-zag of Spirea bushes (Magic Carpet ‘Walbuma’), a Crabapple Tree (‘Prairifire’), lots of Mums, Tulips, Scilla, Snowdrops, Prairie Smoke, Columbine, Perennial Salvia, Threadleaf Coreopsis, Variegated Leaf Iris, a Fern Leaf Peony (‘Ruby Red’), Daylilies (‘Stella d’Oro’), a wayward Prairie Dock (that I am trying to relocate), and a few annuals and some other part-time self seeders (Balsam, Snapdragons, Chamomile).

The Dwarf Lilacs start on the west (left) edge of my house. They will be your landmark in a later post.