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Old 02-02-2013, 10:07 AM
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utility boxes, which are in the front yards, about every 4th one. We have them in ours. These front areas are very small - and you have to be careful with overplanting because the front yard will look like a jungle in 2-3 years since things grow so fast here.

I suggest you drive around villa neighborhoods that are 5-7 years old and take pictures of the ones you like. You will also notice some jungles.

We have some kind of holly that grows in a mound (planted by the builder) that have almost encompassed the short one, and I have knockout roses in front of the taller one - who cares if the utility someday has to cut those back - saves me a trimming. They haven't yet and ours was built in 2006. We are lucky not to have the big box in ours, just two cylindrical ones, the tallest about 4 feet high.