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OK .. redesigning this landscape, bought the house in 2002 ...

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found this when ripping everything out:

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it's an access for a bladder tank for an old well, not in service anymore.

Now, the foundation / concrete goes the picture window edges to about 2' past the hole.

I wanted to plant a row of boxwood hedges or something across the front, something simple. Now I can't do that with the concrete there. Can I add soil over the concrete to give the hedges room to grow? Is this possible? Or should I do what was done previously, fill it, and use potted plants there?[/img]

Marlingardener wrote:If you add enough soil to maintain the hedge, it will be up and over your siding. I don't think that would be good.
Can you have the concrete broken up? A couple of college football players with sledge hammers or a guy with a jack hammer could do it, but the house and windows would have to be protected from flying chips by sheets of plywood.
You could add a thin layer of soil and put in a shallow rooted ground cover, but that's not going to help with your hedge.
If it were my home, I'd put a collection of different height containers there, perhaps three or five, keeping them below the window sill, and put in colorful plants. The planting you had wasn't bad, just a bit sparse where the container was.

What she said. I do not think I would break up the concrete.
Get some nice pots or make a stone walled bed.