Shade Gardening: north side of the fence...., 1 by mosc0022

mosc0022 wrote:
I have a long, thin flower bed that is on the north side of a tall fence, so it never gets direct sun. There are a few lilac trees growing, but they look somewhat sickly, and I may remove one or two of them. I wanted to make a very well-designed annuals garden... I want white and red as the colors.
I was thinking of using impatiens to make sort of a draped design (kind of like the design on wedding cakes). The problem is that the outer foot of the garden gets nearly full sun, so I don't think impatiens would work. I'm attaching a very pathetic diagram of the kind of design I would like - the green circles are the trees that are already there, and I used a gray spray to show where it's shady. I wanted to use maybe 3 types of plants (one for where the red is, one for where the green is, and one for the front). Does anyone have any ideas?