Beginner Gardening: small, young azaleas...what to plant around them, 1 by MCCHICKENN

MCCHICKENN wrote:
here's my situation...new to gardening and landscapes...we planted these encore azaleas (white about 10" tall, pink about 16" tall) as foundation plants I guess. Now I want something to plant around the azaleas to fill in the bed a bit. in this pic the bed is 24' long with the most narrow part being 3.5' wide and the widest part is about 9'. the wide part is partial sun and the narrow part is full sun (so the suncalc says). the azaleas are about 3' apart. there's also a garnet japanese maple. we just had the rock put in a few days ago by a landscaper, but i want to learn to garden and whatnot so i'm attempting to plant the stuff myself. oh, and the soil is alkaline (trying to amend that). zone 7.