I just pulled the trigger on something I've been wanting to purchase for our house, literally for years. This beauty should be arriving on our porch sometime next week!
This simple metal arch will go over the front walkway into our house, with some simple landscaping clinbing it and reaching down the hill. Here's a very bad photoshop rendering of my plans:
The arch will go at the top of the steps, and the browned out lawn is where I will pull out the grass (sorry CJ) and landscape. The area goes over a slight hill (maybe about 3' from top to bottom) so it will make all the new plants very visible from the sidewalk and street. Here are some of the plants I have in mind.
Morning glory vine growing up the sides of the arch through the summer. It's an annual so it will die out in the winter, leaving only the pretty arch for you to see. The large blue flowers will look great with our house that will (hopefully) be all blue soon.
At the bottom of the hill, at the widest spot in the new landscaping area, I want to do a large prairie grass on each side of the walkway,
surrounded by white salvia and orange lantana (butterfly bush). I love the textures of these three together, and they'll make a good dramatic entry into our yard from the street.
And finally, I'll plant a variety of low-growing perennials (about one foot tall) along the rest of the steps and walkway to fill the sides in.
This will add a lot of new color and interest to the yard, and I can't wait to get started. Come on UPS guy!!!
Becca! It's so good to see the house and garden projects picking back up after the hot/busy summer. Especially the details that have becca written all over them! ;) we need to get together soon and catch up!! -lc
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