Cinta,
You're clearly historical home is flatly a Jewel even without the landscaping.
I think you are trying to cover the modern additions with the electrical meter boxes and such.
That would bother me too on such an incredibly beautiful and scenic home.
Your front landscaping doesn't really seem out of control at all to me really and you have added a lot of interest with what you have done.
I absolutely love your Greenspace and home, and think that the electrical boxes are slowly being forgotten because of your landscaping. Painting that upper lifting conduit in the brick tones would make it completely dissapear visually, and at the top where it joins the house could be a great space for an early Amish Hex Symbol type art,....and knowing you;...preferably one with the face of something in it whether a bird, other critter of choice or humanesque hidden in a Sun shape!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful historic home and love that slate roof!
David
