A few times across the decades I've designed a garden with existing foundation plantings so wrong from inception, by the builder of course, they had to be removed. Hollies were the culprit, and damaging to foundation, sidewalk, driveway, and monetary damage to the home's value.
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Each time all foundation plantings were removed there was a husband squawking.
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Each time I said, "Trust me."
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Each time, once the plantings were gone, the husbands said, "Why didn't I do this sooner?" They liked seeing how pretty their home was, finally, after living in it for years.
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Huge lesson in this. Removing ugly improves a garden. Ironic, human intuition says, "I'll keep the ugly, better than nothing."
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This, below, is sublime. A delightful narrative in all sorts of directions via the pic.
What the home looked like, below, before foundation plantings were removed. Narrative is rather narrow.
More about this home, the Enos Kellogg Homestead, ca. 1784, here.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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