Specialty Gardening: What plants to use around my small patio?, 1 by wrightie

wrightie wrote:
It was far too beautiful a day today to not get my hands dirty, so I picked up some pansies while I was out and stuck them in for a temporary bit of instant gratification... unfortunately, I should have gotten 3 or 4 times the amount of flowers than I did, but here is how the little patio looks right now.

The honeysuckle on the back fence is beginning to leaf out, but the grapevine on the left side of photo is still dormant (and invisible).