Beginner Gardening: Help needed: garden design, 0 by mauryhillfarm

mauryhillfarm wrote:
I am a good vegetable gardener, but keep stumbling around and making a mess of things with shrubs and flowers, I have no idea how to plan things out so they look good and flourish. Long story short...I used to have Heuchera, Helianthemum, Carex testacea, and a Ribes sanguneum in this bed in addition to the Evergreen huckleberry, Autumn joy sedum, and calla lily that are still there. Then I spent 2 years in graduate school (while also working full time) and the weeds took over, the Ribes (flowering current) keeled over onto its side trying to reach the sun to the right (even though I read they were good for part shade), all but one Heuchera died. So, I took out the flowering current, cleared the weeds, and I'm wondering what makes sense to plant here. The huckleberry is on the left, the calla lily (white) is in the back right corner, the sedum is in the front right corner with a sorry looking yellow helianthemum behind it, The house shades deeply in the morning, there is full sun on the right side midday, and the apple tree provides dappled shade in the late afternoon.
I'd think I'd like a shortish shrub on the right, but I'm open to any suggestion. That spot is odd, because it is full sun sometimes and part shady the rest of the time.