Wise planning! It took me years to figure out that what I saw in books might not be blooming together where I garden.

Regroup your plants from the categories you showed (flowers, herbs, fruit) into bloom time categories: Early Spring, Mid Spring, Early Summer, High Summer and Fall.

Pineapple Sage and Saliva Leucantha are Fall bloomers, despite a few blossoms in spring, so is Tea Camellia.

Crape Myrtle starts in July, goes to frost if deadheaded. Many of the herbs are grown more for foliage than for blossoms, and can be counted on for green all spring and summer. Others, like parsley are biennial, making nice green clumps this year and going to seed next summer.

The bloom of gladiolus may hinge on when they're planted, so you can make successive plantings to prolong the bloom time. Abyssinian glads bloom in fall, Byzantine glads in late spring.

Different dianthus bloom at different times. Some can be coaxed into rebloom by deadheading.

Tomatoes take a while to set fruit, you can count on Tomatoes after July 1. Lettuces and green peas are cool season crops.

Be careful to double check with someone locally on dates for specific plants. A lily that's blooming for me in May be be blooming for Memo in July.

Nell

Nell's advice is really good. In addition I would suggest considering the size of the mature plants. Depending on your planting space you may not want a 10" tall plant behind a 36" tall plant. Width of the plant needs to be considered too. And you obviously know that if it doesn't work where you put it you can move it someplace else. Do you have these plants from your previous gardens or are you starting with everything new? I really like planting boxes. I have two. One is full of bearded iris that just finished more than a month of blooms (the benefit of a cool spring) and the other is full of asiatic and oriental lilies that are just starting to bloom. My kitchen garden (so named because it is in front of my kitchen but all flowers) is up against the foundation of our house and enclosed with 8"tall 6" thick granite curbing. So in effect that is also a box garden. I wish you the best in your new garden planning and look forward to reading more about how it all goes for you. Have fun.
Bonny