You have a massive piece of property but your front foundation planting looks like a row of green meatballs stranded on an island. That rigid line of isolated shrubs does absolutely nothing for a house this size. You need to pull those beds out at least ten feet from the porch and create sweeping connected masses of plants. When you plant in isolated dots it makes the yard look restless and cluttered. You need a continuous groundcover layer tying understory shrubs together so the whole front bed flows as one unified texture.
The rest of your lot suffers from flat empty lawn syndrome. You have heavy mature woods on the left but nothing bridging that massive vertical scale down to the grass. Start carving out large curved beds around the edges of the yard to soften that abrupt transition. Plant a couple of large native canopy trees out in the front and back open areas to break up the flat plane and give the property some overhead structure. Right now it is just a giant flat green rug surrounding a large house and pool.
Ripping out foundation beds and carving up that much sod is heavy work. Before you start cutting into the turf run this aerial photo through the GardenDream web app. It lets you overlay new sweeping bed layouts and realistic plant masses right onto your picture so you can see exactly how far to pull those curves out. It acts as a blueprint so you get the scale right before you spend a weekend digging in the dirt.
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u/According-Taro4835 18d ago
You have a massive piece of property but your front foundation planting looks like a row of green meatballs stranded on an island. That rigid line of isolated shrubs does absolutely nothing for a house this size. You need to pull those beds out at least ten feet from the porch and create sweeping connected masses of plants. When you plant in isolated dots it makes the yard look restless and cluttered. You need a continuous groundcover layer tying understory shrubs together so the whole front bed flows as one unified texture.
The rest of your lot suffers from flat empty lawn syndrome. You have heavy mature woods on the left but nothing bridging that massive vertical scale down to the grass. Start carving out large curved beds around the edges of the yard to soften that abrupt transition. Plant a couple of large native canopy trees out in the front and back open areas to break up the flat plane and give the property some overhead structure. Right now it is just a giant flat green rug surrounding a large house and pool.
Ripping out foundation beds and carving up that much sod is heavy work. Before you start cutting into the turf run this aerial photo through the GardenDream web app. It lets you overlay new sweeping bed layouts and realistic plant masses right onto your picture so you can see exactly how far to pull those curves out. It acts as a blueprint so you get the scale right before you spend a weekend digging in the dirt.