For something pretty and with a punch of color, I'd consider a Rose of Sharon for each side. You'll get the height and color later in the year, There are plenty of mid size plants you can intersperse for color along with your low growing plants. It would be easier to make suggestions if I could see a picture or get a better sense of the size, but Montauk daisies, reblooming iris, cone flowers, balloon flowers, peonies (for spring color) and day lilies are some suggestions. I also love sage and astilbe. (Yes, I know it's supposed to be a shade plant, but mine are in full sun and doing splendidly -- go figure). And I love roses. Not to beat a dead horse, as I've mentioned this on a few other threads, but a couple of Knock Out roses next to the Roses of Sharon would give you the variety in height you seek and provide low maintenance color from May through November. We have a white with burgundy Rose of Sharon near a white pillar next to our front door and it's striking. I'll try to post a picture tomorrow in my Snapfish album. It might be just the effect you're looking for. You can see the album here: http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=5347523013/a=84589877_84589877/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/ Cathy (MA)

As the bed is quite tight to the house, shrubs will need to hang over the front of the wall in order to have room enough to develop a proper size. Hanging over will look fine, though. At the left corner, a groundcover or low trailing shrub could look nice. Below the windows the shrubs should be something easy to keep at 3' ht. The heavenly bamboo is not going to look nice below the window. It would be best if you find another location for it where it could grow to natural size. It would be better to have dome shaped shrubs below the windows. Seasonal color could go at either side of the stoop and whatever you have growing at the right side now could be used to fill in the leftover spaces.

No, I am still here. Thanks guys for your all suggestions replies. To be honest I am more on the side of Photinia than on Camelia. It is hard to say, they have never saw any blooming on those trees and leaves do look red . But in any case I think they will keep those trees for now, they will trim but that bush (as kiminpl called blob) they probably will remove it and plant small tree as Yardvaark(9A) mentioned. Yardvaark(9A) Thanks for your design and suggestions. We like the idea of multi-trunk tree in front of the blank wall. As biondanonima said it is weird layout. The walkway leads to the driveway/garage that's correct. So thats why there are no reason for them to walk directly out the door and out to the street. And that's why they don't need walkway from the sidewalk directly to the front door. So the idea is to make this entrance more closed from the public. To plant plants in order cover the ugly layout and huge wall, make some privacy. Because the entrance is facing the main road and it is a corner house. There are used to be two huge oak trees in front of the house. When they moved in they had to cut it because they were dead. Thats why that wall look very weird. Here is the picture from 2008. Here is the picture from 2016, you still can see sign on the grass from oak trees I probably should have mention that this is corner house and facing main road. But the real entrance leads from driveway. One more picture:

I like blues with brick. I would also paint your garage doors so they don’t stand out so much. And a big house like that needs deeper flower beds. And a big tree!