I love your plant selections. I would add native grasses of varying heights. For four season interest, some evergreens.

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You have to identify them for us, as I think your scale is entirely off. The first photo shows hydrangesas along the side of the house, but I think they are photoshopped. They look too small. All of the plants are out of scale. You need to tell us what the plants are and the size of your garden and whether the plants you've pictures are ones you've bought or are thinking of buying.

At a guess, I'd think the hydrangeas are too big for the spot they are in in the first pic. Grasses can be as tall as pampas grass, which can be 12' tall to as short as dwarf mondo grass, which can be as short as 4".

If you want to design by photoshop (or AI or any other program) you need to get the proportions of your plants and your house right. Both photoshop and AI are happy to show you 12 foot tall pampas grass fitting under the windows to the left of the porch and when you go to install the garden you've designed, it will look nothing like the pretty picture.

Pampas grass is not native and is invasive and should be avoided. The seeds escape with the wind and displace native plants.

Plus they are a royal pain with razor sharp blades that injure people and animals. Look for species native to your area.

I was not recommending pampas grass, merely noting that the pictures of grasses are very unhelpful, since we don't know what the grass is, or what size it is. None of the pictures are to scale or identified.

Of course! Sorry about that. These are all plants that I have.

Little lime hydrangeas
Garlic allium
blazing star
Russian sage
Back in black sedum
Autumn joy sedum
Salvia
Chollipo euonymus (not pictured)
Karl Forrester grass

As others have said the scale in your photos is way off. As well as the Hydrangeas being too small the dark sedums are towering over the Alliums. You need to research the true size of each of your plants as well as just considering colour. You also need to factor in season of growth and bloom. They won't all be in flower at once.

That Euonymus is potentially an 8' tall shrub. Where were you proposing to put it? 'Garlic allium' isn't a plant name. Do you know what you actually have? There are many ornamental Alliums of different sizes. Being bulbs they will not be a permanent fixture on the surface. They die down annually. There are also hundreds of Salvias. Do you know which one you have?

What they said about scale. It appears the proposed layout is much too crowded for mature plants.

FYI - I’m in z5b and I grow Little Limes. They are 4’x4’.

I notice the small tree on the right side of your house. Same issue of much too close to the house.

Little limes can grow to 4 to 5' tall. The grass in bloom can reach 6'. The Russian sage can reach 5'. So, if you plant any of these, along the windows to the left of the stairs, they will be well over the height. How wide is that bed? Most plants are about as wide as they are tall and you don't want them brushing against the house. If you have room, I might put the Euonymous on the far left corner, but you need to measure the space and make sure the mature size of the plant fits and won't brush up against the house.

That leaves you the alliums, sedums, salvia and blazing star in that bed. What colors are their colors? While they come in different colors, the most common color for all of them is purple. It's very hard to recommend a design without knowing the colors. They won't provide 4 season interest. I'd add some creeping phlox, which is evergreen, although if you have freezing winds in winter with no snow as insulation, it can look a bit brown by spring.

Have you bought the plants? You might be happier with a smaller grass in the bed by the windows, perhaps Little Bluestem. That will give you some 4 season interest (along with the phlox), look good with the salvia and sedums and creeping phlox.

I'm not convinced your plant choices reflect a "wildlife-friendly" garden. Wildlife friendly generally means native plants and I don't think you have any. Nor do your plants lend themselves to 4-season interest. The Euonymous and Grass will give you winter interest, but I suspect you are low on spring blooms. Of course, the easiest thing to do is to buy things to fill in. If you have garlic chives, you will get a lot of pollinators on them --- which, given the narrow space, might make you uneasy, passing all those bees on the way to the front door.

This is a design I like. You can adapt the elements to very different settings. It has a rhythm of smaller plants in two shades of purple, with contrasting lime. Your contrast might be the dark sedum. It has height in the roses, although you don't have much room for height.

You could do salvia, autumn joy and little bluestem alternating, punctuated with the blazing star and dark sedum and some alliums, edged with creeping phlox. That would be pretty, look pretty good in winter and, through the phlox, give you some spring flowers.

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Note: while a photoshop or AI will show everything in bloom at once, a garden with salvia and sedum and alliums is going to look more like this. The salvia and alliums are in bloom, but the sedums, which are to the left of the salvias in the foreground and not. Without knowing which allium or your climate, I can't say if the alliums will bloom with the salvia.

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Since bulbs are easy and cheap, I'd put some early spring bulbs in with the creeping phlox.