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In the photo above, you can see the entire front of the house. The solid object to the extreme left is an old spruce that borders the driveway. Just past it in the center of the photo, the greenery to the left of the steps is a hydrangea, which will have blue snowballs this year as I'm fertilizing it with an acid mixture. In the photo below, you can more clearly see that along the front porch and bordering the front steps, I have one of my rose gardens. It contains Electron, Fisherman's Friend, Brigadoon, and Queen Elizabeth. Off to the right, you can see one of the rose standards, French Perfume.
The photo below shows the three rose standards along the front porch; from the left, French Perfume, Double Delight, and Sheer Bliss.
At the right-hand side of the front porch is a circle containing this dwarf blue spruce, which is underplanted with variegated euonymous. You can barely make out Sheer Bliss to the left of the spruce. This circle anchors the turn into the side yard.
This is a shot of the left-hand side of the front yard, showing Electron and Fisherman's Friend in full bloom. Brigadoon and Queen Elizabeth are just starting to bloom, as you can see in the right-hand portion of the photo.
Moving to the right, you can see Double Delight and Sheer Bliss in full bloom.
In late May 2000, Electron is in full flush to the left; the deep red to the lower center is Fisherman's Friend; and Brigadoon is to the right.
Here's a shot of the front yard in mid-May 2006. The new topsoil and grass seed have done their magic. You can see how well the pachysandra bed around the spruce tree is doing. Just to the left of center, the mock orange is getting ready to explode into bloom. Off to the center right you can see the rosebud azalea still in bloom under the weeping cherry tree.
After the great cutting down to size during the second week of June, here's what the front yard now looks like. You will note that the side yard is no longer obscured.
This is the front of the house in late May, 2007, with Fisherman's Friend putting on a show.
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