Northeast Gardening: Help me with plants for the front of my house please!, 0 by PrimroseSue

PrimroseSue wrote:
I just sent this pic to DawnLL's "My 3 babies . . . " thread and it got me thinking: we've had this house for about 5 years now (it replaced a 200-year old burned-down farmhouse) and I still don't know what to put in front of the foundation. I absolutely hate (no offense) traditional shrubs in front of a house. It faces East, so the left side also gets the South sun too. Any suggestions?
(I was just noticing that most of my garden photos I take either have a weed bucket or a hose or something in the pic!)