Texas Gardening: Need Inspiration for this Spot (Help Me, Please!), 1 by stephanietx

stephanietx wrote:
I have this flower bed on the other side of the driveway in "no man's land" as I call it. It has excellent soil, as it's had lots of amendments added to it. It gets shade from the huge oak tree on the other side of the driveway, but it gets the horrible hot western sun for much of the day. Anything that grows too tall leans to the west sun. The heat from the driveway also heats up the area. I'd like to plant natives and drought tolerant plants in it, but need to come up with some kind of plan as everything I've put in there so far has just been placed willy-nilly. This is what's in there so far:

Butterfly bush (at the curb near the street)
Esperanza
4 Nerve daisy (near the curb at the street)
Daylilies in various places
A balloon flower plant
1 Firecracker plant
1 Rudbeckia plant (thanks to Sheila!)
Pink Ruellia (the short kind)
May Night Salvia
White Gaura , which I think is dead now
Schoolhouse Lilies
And a few other things that I can't remember now

It's an awkward shape, sort of a triangle with one long straight side about 15' long and about 10' long on the street side. Then there's the weird side!! It narrows to a very tiny point at the tip, closest to our house.

Any suggestions?? Placement/design ideas would be welcome as well.

This picture is taken from the tip looking out to the street facing north. West is on the left and east is on the right.