I think peonies would be nice. I have to deal with wire grass and Bermuda grass. Mulching with a several layers of newspaper under the mulch. It pulls up much easier.

I already have peonies in the middle row. I ended up doing candytuft alternated with hardy geraniums. I dug up all that grass along the border while I was at it. I've done the newspaper in the past, and it disintegrates so quickly.

I have lots of weed grasses but not that one. I hand weed, aughh, never ending. Do you have a new picture to post after all your work?

Do you have the names of these plants and their mature heights? I have made monumental errors in placement.

Not sure why this picture is upside down. It is right side up everywhere else. It is hard to tell what I've done bc it hasn't bloomed or filled in. Along the front row I alternated candytuft (spring bloomer) and a hardy geranium that blooms white in the summer and turn brilliant red in the fall. Along the back row I filled in some empty spots with Becky shasta daisies. I moved a ton of things around.

As for the plants you asked about, the tree is a skyrocket juniper that gets 20 feet tall, I believe. The middle is two winter gem boxwoods that get 3 feet max, I think, and the thing circled in purple is a Mikasa Itoh peony, which gets 3-4 feet tall. To the right of the peony is another boxwood. I started with my evergreens bc they stand alone in the winter.

Your new border will be great. I love candytuft. So easy to take starts from if you want more plants. I thought that was a type of juniper. Wondered if you wanted it to block the window? I would move one of the boxwoods to be in line with the other to make a nice solid green backing for other plants. Love your peonies. Any chance of having a third between the two? Which hardy geranium did you use? I just bought a new one called 'Tiny Monster'. Googled it and found out why it's called monster. Guess that baby is going in a pot!

What if you were to add a dwarf red Japanese maple in front of the window area to break up the look a little and give it some contrast? You can then add some shrubs underneath it like golden spirea or maybe even catmint. Low maintenance plants that would look great against the red foliage of the maple. Just tossing it out there as a suggestion. Your tree peonies are beautiful, by the way. I love peonies and can never get enough of them.

So the boxwoods do make a line. They go 1 2 1. Across the sidewalk is another 3 Itoh peonies in a different bed. There was a third peony in this bed to the left but it died when I moved it to get more sun. I forgot to label the thing circled in pink is a tall phlox. In that bed I have catmint, salvia, russian sage, a few different colors of yarrow (moonshine and desert eve), becky shasta daisies, tall phlox, mums, boxwoods, Itoh peonies, foxglove, lilac, black eye susans, day lilies, tulips, hyacinths, monch asters, hydrangeas, purple coneflowers, gaura. That juniper isn't directly in front of that window. It is just the angle of the picture. There is another one back behind in the corner to the left, but it is downhill from there, and it had winter damage to the top and had to be cut back. The hardy geranium is biokovo.

Sorry, I thought the pink circle was the 2nd boxwood. You have some great plants in there. Would love to see it throughout the bloom season. I have a lot of different plants and usually after 2 years I know who is going to be permanent, which ones need repetition and, aughh, which ones need moving or ditching. Most helpful design wise for me has been to study it as darkness falls. Then the colors are less distracting. I tried changing my overall photo to grey tones but that wasn't as helpful. Trying to add yarrow now and it's iffy. The suggestion of using 3, 5 or 7 of the same plant is my current focus. So maybe the yarrow needs to go elsewhere. Your Biiokovo, I'm guessing, will provide bloom when the candytuft is finished. Good idea.

When I chose the Biokovo it was to be a summer version of candytuft and add some summer and fall interest. The Candytuft is an evergreen in our yard so it will be year round. They both have similar low growing mounding shapes. This is my fourth year of this garden, and every year I rearrange and change, but this year I feel like I may have finally gotten it. I hope so anyway. I love my yarrow because it is so long blooming. Some plants haven't survived, so they've had to be replaced. this is my third time planting hydrangeas, but they seem to be thriving this time. Same with gaura. Fingers crossed. The big positive I've had is that I finished planting on 3 cloudy days, and then we've had lots of cool weather and rain for them to get adjusted. In the past I've planted on super hot dry days with lots of super hot dry days to follow. I knew it wasn't good timing, but it was just the opportunity I had. This year I had a window and I took it!