Hi everyone! I posted about a year ago about my front flower bed & landscaping and wanted to provide an update. The first picture is from last summer and the pictures that follow are from this summer. I spent time during the fall removing 7 large shrubs from the bed (and from our property entirely) and replaced some with small/dwarf native varieties. We’ve decided that native plants are important to us and strive to plant mostly native trees, shrubs, and perennials on our property. In the spring, I created the new flower bed around the bay window and plan to expand it to curve in front of the left pillar (as previously suggested to me). In the meantime I am planning another affordable redesign of my plants in the main bed (to continue to add more color and structure). While I take these pictures head on, the reality is people only see head on from a distance driving down the street and once they’re close they see a side view (like the last picture I’ve added to this post). In that picture I’m standing to the right of my mailbox, the neighbors mailbox, and a street light pole. We’re at the end of a culdesac so there’s a curve. Another frustration I have is the shape of this bed. The circle seems so hard to organize - It never turns out like my vision. I have a gorgeous American Beauty Berry bush, a couple Autumn sage/salvia with magenta flowers to compliment beauty berries, a couple blue salvia (which match our front door color of a dark/deep blue), two dwarf yaupon hollies, three encore azaleas (dwarf), and four gembox inkberry hollies (hedge along bay window). My azaleas have been the most disappointing they are not densely foliated and do not add color for very long. My question is how do I best take advantage of this space in a bed this shape? How do I add color and order to the bed using native plants? Someone last year suggested lawn cover but I’m not a fan of adding more grass I’d rather reduce the amount of lawn. Some gravel/rocks were also suggested but not sure how this works and how to avoid weeds. I live in Oklahoma and deal with heavy clay soils although this area of the yards has been supplemented with some sand.