Site questions
Circulation, grade, and the planted volumes that have to route around a fixed house.
Can a path run right against a foundation?+
It can meet a door. It should not erase the house footprint to get a wider walk. Leave a margin the wall can live with.
What counts as a planting mass?+
A hedge, a shrub block, or a group of canopy read as one volume. Individual pots and a cultivar list are a different page.
May I nudge the house to straighten a path?+
No. The house footprint stays. Paths, levels, and planting masses are what move.
Do the boundaries include the fence?+
The property line stays. If you want a new fence design on that line, use the fence page after the landscape is set.
Can levels include a low retaining wall?+
Yes. A wall that holds a level change is part of the grade. It still has to stop at the boundaries and clear the footprint.
Is a plant-by-plant scheme the result?+
No. The brief is masses, paths, and levels, not a nursery order. A cultivar list belongs on the planting planner.
Can the footprint be read from this photo?+
Yes. The photograph supplies the house outline, the boundaries, and the doors a path has to meet. The plan does not slide the building to straighten a walk.