This is a commercial building. It is likely to get next to no maintenance, so whatever goes in needs to be very tough and stand up to the wear and tear of city life. This ain’t Grandma’s garden.

The building architecture is minimalist except for the color and the vertical lines in the siding. The stone first floor has horizontal lines.

I see three species of tough perennial small shrubs or very durable perennial flowers in the blue green leaf color range and maybe having blue flowers or berries. No grasses because I don’t want the vertical lines they create.

These three species are to be planted in single species horizontal stripes across the front of the building, crossing the entry walkway to the right hand bed and hopefully an upper right hand bed where I see a telephone pole as continuous stripes. There needs to be significant foliage texture difference between the plants that make up the stripes.

This I think will give the building the effect of a wide base to rest on so the color stripes on the building don’t pull the eye too harshly skyward as well as work with the theme of the building.

There will need to be one taller element in the right front bed by the utility meters to screen those and help balance the tree on the left and break up that wall a bit.

That’s the concept anyway.

I don’t knows much bout Yankee shrubberies yet so you’ll have to think what will work from there.