Thank you Jeanie and David.
But.....Do you ever have a vision and just cannot seem to hit that vision? As David so aptly recognized it is a style of house that calls for a certain style of landscaping. I thought I had picked out the right plants. But I think my problem is I am a modern Milly and David your style would be my comfort zone of planting and really what I like. It is what I have in the back. I need to go back to the drawing board and see if I can find more structure type plants.
The front of the house needs more structured plants in my mind.
David that electrical box bugged me from day one. I talked to the electric co to see if I could move it but they said because I am over 100' from the street it is the only place it can be legally. I wish we had like some cities of underground wires. I cannot paint it either. grrrrrrr I am going to try to grow some kind of vine up that wire.