Yard suggestions please
Hello! Looking for some ideas on this section of lawn.
It is southeast facing, and gets all day sun. Ground is sandy. Previously grew grass here. In Michigan. This is a northwest corner lot, in a busy downtown small city location.
The stump was a 10 year old mulberry tree, cut down last year. The large tree is a 30+ year old silver maple.i don't know what the bushes around the tree are, but they have small fragrant flowers in early summer. These bushes also lined the other side of the sidewalk, all the way to the stop sign, but have been dying for several years and we finally cut them last year too.
The area between the sidewalks is 35 feet by 15 feet. The smaller area between the sidewalk and driveway, next to the maple is 25 by 6 feet.
I want privacy from the road for the porch, because this is a busy street. But I can't plant anything too close or blocking the stop sign. We've been fined before from the old bushes blocking the sign.
Because this is downtown with ordinances, I need the area to look tidy, so it can't be all wildflowers. I have a limited amount of tree types I could plant, but no limit on bushes.
Any ideas?