I do have creeping phlox on my list of something to put along the edge of the wall. I'm not terribly concerned about drawing the eyes upwards past the fence because I think the house does a pretty good job of doing that for me because it is a large, brick victorian. One of the things I'm trying to do with the garden is to soften the look of such a stern, serious house. I need to snap a picture of the house from across the road to show you want it looks like with the fence. But it's big, and brick
