Opinions please :)

Hi all,
this is my garden. I feel brave posting as I’m a bit unhappy with it at the moment. To the left, you can see some perennials have been planted or coming back, the arbour has a bare root rose climber starting to grow and a potted started to grow over it. To the right of that are roses and a continus shrub which ill keep small. In the sleepers are various shrubs and some bedding. Some haven’t grown back yet etc.
this is my garden. I feel brave posting as I’m a bit unhappy with it at the moment. To the left, you can see some perennials have been planted or coming back, the arbour has a bare root rose climber starting to grow and a potted started to grow over it. To the right of that are roses and a continus shrub which ill keep small. In the sleepers are various shrubs and some bedding. Some haven’t grown back yet etc.
My garden is north facing. Clay soil but within the borders I have dug a few feet and replaced with compost mixtures. The sleepers were clay and I also add compost to that.
I like gardening any time of year. I’d like the garden to have full borders all year round. I like perennials but feel
more shrubs may be beneficial. I like cottage plants.
more shrubs may be beneficial. I like cottage plants.
I’d like ideas of what you’d do if this was your garden, to the borders. Kind words only please
I’m new to gardening

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i like pinks, whites, purples and evergreens with green foliage. The layout is done now as it took a lot of time but within the borders I like cottage type plants. I would like to have a full garden border though all year round
I would concentrate on perennials for easiness, bulbs for winter and spring that can be left in, then have a go at sowing some annuals for pretty colours in the summer. Dahlias will flower until the frost gets them, usually November here.
I’ve got dahlias growing facing NSE&West.
Best thing is to try, every year is different, you’ll learn what’s working for you, if it doesn’t you can change it next year.
google what plants like shade, then see what you like.
We all change our gardens about, move things around, try new plants.
Clematis would be another possibility to plant on its own or to mingle with the rose and I would advise a viticella as they are robust, come in many forms and colours and are easy to prune and care for once established. Betty Corning is a good one - http://clematisontheweb.org/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=562
as is Black prince - http://clematisontheweb.org/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=87
or Hagelby Pink - http://clematisontheweb.org/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=3206
Etoile rose would be good at the sunnier end of the fence - http://clematisontheweb.org/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=526
If you are allowed to attach supports such as wires, that wall at the bottom is asking for a lovely repeat flowering rose or a fan-trained blackberry or tayberry.
Other than that there are loads of hardy geraniums, geums, astrantias that would cope with being north facing and give you a long season of flowering interest without swamping your dwarf conifers.