Beginner Gardening: Beginner needing help, 0 by berley_gander

berley_gander wrote:
Thank you for the information. I came up with an idea of what I wanted and used a planner online to get a picture which i have attached. Keep in mind this is only a sketch so to speak. The house the five cubes are actually the porch posts and the house is obviously connected to the porch not just behind it like it looks on the picture. I would like some sort of bush/shrub that only gets about 2-3 feet tall in front of the posts and some perennial flowers or something inbetween them to get more color and variation. What do you think is best for borders? Plastic, rock, bricks, wood, monkey grass which I already have bordering my walkway?? Any advice on types of shrubs/bushes, flowers, and also a border?