First thing I see is those black corrugated downspout pipes just laying out on top of your mulch. You need to bury those things and route that water a good ten feet away from your foundation to protect your basement. While you have the shovel out dig a clean spade edge between your lawn and the bed. A sharp deep cut line gives the space instant structure and stops that weedy grass from creeping back into your mulch. Function and beauty have to work together here.
Right now your planting is a scattered polka dot mess of random twigs and weeds. Yank the stragglers out and stop planting isolated shrubs. You need solid structure built with sweeping connected masses of evergreens that flow together into a single texture. Before you start guessing at the nursery run a picture of this space through the GardenDream web app. It acts like a safety net so you can overlay different planting layouts and see exactly how a layered connected bed will look against your brick. Get your drainage sorted and visualize a solid plan before you spend a dime on new plants.
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First thing I see is those black corrugated downspout pipes just laying out on top of your mulch. You need to bury those things and route that water a good ten feet away from your foundation to protect your basement. While you have the shovel out dig a clean spade edge between your lawn and the bed. A sharp deep cut line gives the space instant structure and stops that weedy grass from creeping back into your mulch. Function and beauty have to work together here.
Right now your planting is a scattered polka dot mess of random twigs and weeds. Yank the stragglers out and stop planting isolated shrubs. You need solid structure built with sweeping connected masses of evergreens that flow together into a single texture. Before you start guessing at the nursery run a picture of this space through the GardenDream web app. It acts like a safety net so you can overlay different planting layouts and see exactly how a layered connected bed will look against your brick. Get your drainage sorted and visualize a solid plan before you spend a dime on new plants.