Beginner Gardening: flower garden design help, 2 by beelady13

beelady13 wrote:
We have a new flower bed in front of the house. I am going to take out the salvia, dahlia, bee balm & lavender then fill with compost and try to refill with some flowers that will give us color for the rest of the year - in Maine, zone 5.

Any suggestions?

The flowers I am taking out are not doing so well (except the dahlia). My DH will only be home for a few weeks this summer and I would love to have some flowers in the bed for him to enjoy (especially since he made the stone border!)

There is a small cedar in the circle part of the stone border...not sure if it is going back or not.