As promised, here are some pictures of the front of my house. 

This is the east bed.  In the background is a rosebush, delphinium "blue mirror", an asiatic lily, in the foreground are my monster giant lambs ears. The red and orange scattered throughout are different kinds of marigold and calendula.

Just another view of the east bed. To the far left are African Horned violets.

Here is a view of the west bed at the front of our house.  In the background is our speoria bush,
guara and sedum stonecrop. In the middle are oriental poppies. In the foreground is hens and chicks, more violets, marigold and calendula and arabus (sp?)

Another view of the west front bed. This time showing another set of Asiatic lillies
in the upper left-hand corner.

These guys are the verbascum on the west side of our house.

The homecoming of Andre the Birch tree.

Our house before Andre

Our house after Andre

Our house through Andre's perspective