Thank you Doug! Are the flowers in a pot or planted?

The flowers (caladiums) are in a pots & can be changed seasonally.

I'd suggest taking your photos to a reputable garden center or nursery and have a local expert give you some suggestions for a mix of shrubs and perennials. What direction the front of the house faces will greatly impact the plant choices.

I would go with boxwoods and hydrangeas. Hostas are good too.

Celery girl so you would eliminate the bed to the left of the walkway?

I’m not celerygirl, but I would eliminate the bed on the street side of the semicircle driveway.

I wouldn’t plant anything on the sides of the sidewalk that leads from the semicircle driveway to the porch, either.

Yes I would eliminate left flower bed to keep it open.

Planting both sides of the walk makes it seem narrower than it already is. It also adds a pronounced feeling of confinement to anyone using the walk. Viewed from the street, the outer planting doesn't help the inner planting at all, but conceals it.

You could plant some fragrant roses there. They repeat and make your walkway colorful.

Generally I would agree with celerygirl, littlebug and Yardvaark about eliminating the bed on the street side of the walk. But from the photos, this looks like a secondary walkway. Wouldn’t most folks walk around the curved drive and up the wide center walkway?

If that is the case, I would plant both sides. To my eye, the bed on the house side of the walkway looks to be too narrow to plant anything with much size, perhaps 3’ deep, and a good chunk of it is in the rain shadow created by the eaves of the house and so will need a carefully designed irrigation system. I don’t think there is room for much more than some quite small shrubs and an evergreen groundcover to tie it together on the house side of the walkway, and those will need careful trimming to not impinge on the walkway. If something low is planted on the street side with perhaps some more low shrubs far enough from the walk to not grow near it, the area may read better from the street.

Anything planted there shoul be pedestrian friendly. If roses, they should have few if any thorns.

We have boxwoods in front of my house and I do not like them. Wasps and hornets like to hide in them. I don't know why because there are no flowers anywhere near them.

Boxwoods have flowers. Small and not very noticeable but they do bloom.

^^ And they are very attractive to bees and other small pollinating insects when they do bloom. I have seen flowering boxwoods simply quivering with bee activity!!

Thanks, only reason I thought to keep the bed on the road side of the walk was to keep it balanced with the other side of the front of the house. If removed would it look unbalanced? Agreed any plantings in the narrow bed next to the house should be lower so it does not over power the bed. Any suggestions? Should I keep it to flowers? Only issues there is in the winter it would be empty.

Oh and I think guest use the walkway from the circular driveway and we mainly use the walkway from the garage if that helps.

Doug one more question- on the semi side of the driveway there is golden Euonymus planted. I am not ready to remove it yet Could you suggestion plants that would look good planted next to them? Thanks!

I don't see where the euonymus is planted, but generally speaking purplish & blue plants work well with it. Perhaps Crimson Pygmy Barberry, Dwarf Lorapetalum, Palace Purple Heuchera, Bluestar Juniper, Dwarf Cryptomeria & Spruce, Midnight Wine Weigela, etc.

Thanks Doug. They are in the first picture under the flowering tree.