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What is along the side of the house now? Lawn?

This is the place where I want to fill with plants, any recommendations. We love flowers, shrubs anything that can help to make it visually much better. I dig some holes and put red mulch around. Thank you

Is this a fenced area where deer won't turn it into a buffet or is it open?

I'd would have chosen what schrubs, etc to plant before laying mulch down, etc. Don't take anything I say the wrong way, just my opinioin and trying to help. That's a pretty narrow bed, I'd make it wider and the holes further out, don't want your whatever you plant that close to your house.With the size of that bed, you are limiting yourself to plants like nandina, which are fine and pretty much maintenance free other than some light pruning ever few years. With 6hrs of full sun, your options are limitless, just make sure your bed is big enough, azaleas, for example, may look like they fit just fine after you plant those store bought gallon ones, but when they reach 5ft wide and 5ft tall, you'll see that you planted the wrong thing. the soft touch holly wouldn't be a bad choice, get 3-4ft tall and wide, you wouldn't have to prune them alot. I'm not a fan of red mulch, leave that for office parks, plus wood mulch next to your house can invite the termites. Landscape fabric is nice to have down in a shrub bed too. Always amend soil if necessary.

Thank you for your advice ! Definitely I'll be moving mulch away a little bit, but what I can put in between ?

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Are you renting or do you own it? if you own it, i'd suggest enlarging the area to both give you more area to plant and to enable you to move your plantings away from the side of the house some.

I own the house apprenticegardener ! I'm just trying to make a nice garden but I'm totally lost ! I don't know really what I have to do first.

Need Helpppp!!

With 6 hours of sun, you have a wide choice of shrubs that you can plant, as well as many different annuals and perennials. If you restrict yourself to the space shown in the picture, you'll be able to plant a row of 1 or 2 different varieties of small shrubs--or some different flowers--but not both. My previous comment on enlarging the area is to urge you to think about creating an area in which you can plant taller growing shrubs nearest the house, then possibly a variety of flowering plants that will provide color throughout the year in front of them. (Rule of thumb for shrubs--the main stem or center of the root ball should be planted at least one-half the mature diameter of the shrub plus one foot away from the house}.

What to do first? *Read and study varieties of plantings--look for varieties that take "full sun". *Visit a large nursery--you have a Pike's in Cumming which will have a variety of shrubs and flowers to look at and ask questions about. *Make that area in the picture at least twice as large--take up the grass (you'll need a spade and a wheelbarrow or cart to move it away. *Work the ground--might be easiest to do with a rented or borrowed small tiller, but it can be done (because the area is small) with a shovel and/or spade. *Amend the soil --there are many different ways to do this--search for "amending soil" on-line. *Do some plantings--by the time you have done everything up to this point you should have had time to do some reading and research. *Add some mulch--if it contains any wood fiber at all, keep it away from the foundation (color doesn't matter, but many folks don't like the red because it reminds them of the clay soil)). *Maintain--this is a whole other topic including watering, pest protection, pruning. etc., etc.

Don't overdo it. If you are really as "newbie" as you profess, please start slowly and simply. Gardens are wonderful--but they don't come overnight.

Thank you apprenticegardener I'll start for making the bed wider.