One of these days I’m going to sit down with my husband and come up with a viable landscaping plan for the front of our house.  Right now we have river stone right next to the house and a couple of rose bushes.  We’ve cut down our little landscaping cedar trees because they were looking gross and dead.

I’d like to put in a some more bushes and maybe spider grass.  Definitely a Japanese Maple!  As you can see, we really do need to come up with some design ideas!  Theology & Geometry has already started her dream plan,

My idea, if the sketch is truly undecipherable, is this: Push back the perimeter of the front yard a couple of feet, placing a row or two of nice-looking pavers flush with the street so that the parking that will inevitably be done there won’t continue to rip up my grass and create muddy tire tracks. Install a retaining wall (texture, color, material, and pattern are up for debate) and build up the lawn to level off at the top of the wall. That won’t be too tough since there is already a decent slope to the yard, and I’m not necessarily talking about a very tall retaining wall.

That’s a home owner with a plan!