Looks like a nice project!

I like your choice of trees. Maybe some other under plantings……I like the grass. Maybe add one to the right side of the bed. You can add some lower growing perennials to the front. Then as rosaprimula says, water, water, water. Very nice project!

debra

I think we're used to much sharper lawn edges, Rosa. Many pictures of US beds don't seem to be very crisply delineated. Maybe it's just a custom/style thing.

MUlch, mulch, mulch! It will improve the soil and keep the moisture in.

We are putting moss in there to grow and absorb moisture

The comment about mulch brought up a related topic. It looks like you have several trees in your yard. Those trees are a good source of much. The most obvious are the leaves and pine needles. What is less obvious are the sticks, limbs, and other trimmings from your plantings.

My philosophy is what grows in the yard stays in the yard. Leaves go on the flower bed. Stick, limbs and other trimmings are run through the chipper shredder. The chipper shredder can do 3" branches. While there are limbs it can not handle, it has more than paid for it self in the mulch I can produce with it. I run it dry until the gas is gone, maintain the oil, and it starts when ever I need it.

It never made sense to me to rake up and burn the leaves, carry dead wood to the dump, and then pay for fertilizers and other products for your yard. Mulch breaks down in a couple of years and enriches the soil. leaves ever quicker. This returns the nutrients they use to the soil. nutrients you do not need to buy.

Most of the trees in my yard are either Red maples or Tupelos, there are also many black cherries and elms too, both Tok much variety

LOL!! There is never "too much variety" when it comes to trees!

btw, I also support RP and floral's comments about a need to clearly delineate the bed lines. I think the lack of delineation is less of a style thing and more of a laziness thing :) It also reduces maintenance by keeping the lawn from encroaching on planting beds and vice versa.

Also, mulching with anything organic is the best thing you can do a for a garden. It contributes so many benefits.

I meant to say not much lol😂

"We are putting moss in there to grow and absorb moisture. " That doen't make sense. Moss will only grow if there is ample moisture present already. It doesn't make dry soil moist. Just mulch. Use whatever you have and it looks as if you have leaves. So use them.

I agree formal gardens are not for every situation. A formal garden with a house like Monticello would be necessary. A formal garden around a log cabin would look ridiculous.

I am with Jay, a formal garden around my house would not be as bad as one around a log cabin, but formal gardens would not look right. We have many flower beds, some wooded areas, and some lawn. Some beds are delineated with pine logs, others with rocks, other just blend into the yard. What ever seems right with the type of plantings and the location in the yard. Our wooded area has paths with some camellias and azaleas.

The rotary mower keeps the the bed in place.

However any garden formal or natural requires work to keep them looking nice.