| By white mailbox stand do you mean a post or a box around the mailbox area like a planter? Personally, I like those white picket fence corners (3 posts w/ 2 panels) as back drops, but that's just me :) If you want a nice golden color shrub there are the false cypress, I bought a gold mop last year. It is supposed to eventually reach 5x5 though. You could put a dwarf pampas grass or miscanthus. Homestead Purple verbena is close to evergreen and blooms spring thru frost as a short ground-cover. Honestly, what I have aat my mailbox is a trellis behind the box/post with mandevilla, a dwarf pampas grass behind that, 3 queen margarite daisies, some verbena and dianthus, pansies, blue hill salvia, mums, candytuff and white coneflower. I had some sedum too but it got crowded out. I leave the plumes from the grass all winter and the pansies and the dried husks of the coneflower & mums. Might not look GREAT during the dead of winter, but not terrible either. If you could say if you want evergreens or flowers it would probably help. -Bonnie |
