When sitting on the bench looking at our home there is a lone branch hanging down from the large Blue Spruce between you and the house, and believe it or not, as slight as it is, it serves to create a vague sense of separation.
Intimately close, yet at the same time set apart.
It is an illusion I am trying to enhance by adding five new peony Festiva Maxima
While I have read that Peony do not like to be transplanted I have personally had luck with it before, so I am willing to try again. My hope is that the increased size of the Peony border between the house and bench will enhance the sense of separation and increase the feeling that one is tucked away in a forest.