Your roses are lovely. I would look at hydrangea, boxwood, yew, and Mountain Laurel.

Here is a plant scheme you can copy. The plant information is with the photo. This picture was take soon after planting and there is another picture taken some time after. You can see how much it has filled in.

Keep it simple and don't plant too close to the house. I would almost double the depth you have for your beds.

The only other thing I would mention is that you don't need shutters on your windows. The house will look better without them. How about an interesting color for the front door? That is, unless it is stained wood.

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I don't know if you could work it into your budget, but I am always seeing teens advertising on Next Door, for work, often yard work. They may not have expertise, but have strong backs and hands and low prices. You could come up with a plan that might be a little more ambitious to implement, if you had someone to help you with the grunt work.

I would widen the bed to the walkway, eliminating that little strip of grass. Then I would figure out how to widen the actual walkway; it's really too narrow for the front of your house. It would require someone to help you, probably, and some more pavers, but you could use what you have and just separate and stagger them something like this. I'm not suggesting the large rocks they used (looks like a good way to turn an ankle to me) but you could fill with gravel or just let the grass fill in:

Thanks so much! I just finished edging the other flower bed and it highlights that my boxwood are apparently NOT in a straight line so now also looking for a way to detract attention from that... maybe with whatever I put in the front corner on the far end???

Get a bunch of perennial flowering shrubs, e.g. azalea, hydrangea, rhododendron, or even what they call carpet rose bushes that grow low to the ground and spread out. If you want to spruce up the front a bit, you could also put in a long window box under the front window with geraniums or other annuals.

Be careful with hydrangea, if that’s what you plant. Most varieties easily reach 7 feet tall which would be way way too tall for this bed.

Instead of trying to make a straight line, have you thought about curving the area out where the bare dirt is? You could start the curve where the boxwood is planted.

Hi everyone, Thank you all SO much for the suggestions. I was getting to the point where analysis paralysis was getting the better of me. So armed with your suggestions and some loose idea of what I *may* want, I got my butt to Home Depot and just picked some things to get myself started... otherwise I was probably going to sit here "planning" and never get anything planted.

I took the advice some of you had and reshaped the brick edging. It helped detract attention from the crooked line of boxwood and made it a little more interesting. I planted two perennial daisies in front of the rose bush on the one side with some little annual moss roses. On the other side, I planted a mountain laurel.

I don't know what I'm going to do with the other few annual moss roses, and I don't know what I'll put to fill in the gap between the mountain laurel and the rose bush. I was thinking maybe two more mountain laurels and be done with it.

So exciting to be crowd-sourcing ideas on this project!

Good job. There are different varieties of plants, so always read the label. I have hydrangea that is about 3 foot square. I would move the last boxwood out from the house. It is much too close.