Enough of Winter! Let's Design a Garden

(Updated from yesterday--with photos!) 
In the front of the Ivy Palace, where once was just a rug of poison ivy (and 3 iron bed frames, a box spring, a mess of scraggly scotch pines and 300 feet of coiled barbed wire) there will now be a dear little front lawn.

The front of the house, as you know, is only 14 feet of lawn.  There used to be 90 feet but in 1982 a large curve was taken out of the road, to eliminate an overpass that crossed the Airline Trail. Now that it is a rail trail, cars can just cross it.  But poor Barney lost 90 feet of woodsy frontage.  However, there are about 5 cars a day on this road (except when the horsey folks get together, then it's trailer-o-rama but it's kind of cool to watch them) and plus, we got the Air Line Trail out of it, so I can live with 14 feet.  But one wants a bit of a buffer.

So, picture the house, in all its length of 20 glorious feet.
Now, right in front of it will be a 12" curtain drain instead of a roof gutter--I like them lots better.  Then there will be a 2-foot grass and stepping stone pathway, and in front of that is a simple but elegant wood fence, painted dark mouse brown, like in the photo below (which doesn't exist yet), on which are climbing New Dawn roses.  I think 3 of them, along the fence.

Now,walk round to look at the 18 foot fence (don't want exactly the same length as the house) from the street, and you will also see, interspersed, russian sage

white peonies

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the smaller, darker Salvia "May Night" a bit to the front (above)

and interspersed with this some pale yellow daylily "Happy Returns"
and on the side and maybe a few behind the fence some digitalis ambigua (foxglve)
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and a fabulous new Echinacea "Sunrise."

I love "Solar Flare" and want to put it somewhere, but what I want here is the white-pink of the rose standing out against the fence and the light and dark lavender, with some soft white accents (peonies) and yellow contrasts, which will flower at different times.

The front of the house will have 3 awning windows, remember, since it is the street side and close to the road, but window boxes plus this fence/rose garden in front will anchor the house and make the oblong of the windows fit right in.
That's the plan anyway, if I decide to keep it.
Perhaps, since I'm still depressed, I will design the window boxes next . . .
I may not be a carpenter, but I am a landscaping fool . . .