@Heartlander Rhodos, Pieris, Azelea, conifers, camelia and a cheals weeping cherry. The weeping cherry was a forlorn lobsided tree left alone at the end of our first summer (1996) in the garden centre and I got it for £5 when it was maybe 5 foot tall, knowing it would grow over the circular path bit I never thought that nearly 30 years later I would have bene able to train it around the fences and lone the back garden. Glad you like it. I'm going to add some more pics when I get around to it. We are on clay topped limestone but the secret is to have an east facing wall so the buds on camelias and pieris are protect form early sun after frosts and dig the soil out, put down a plasic liner, and put in lime free compost and keep adding more organic material every year. The clay will help prevent ground water rising as wel as the dry lining, and a mix of water retaining clay with plant material should keep things acidic enough ph5 is fine. Then gradneing is just about letting the plants grow and lookng after them. The trunk burts on the cherry years ago and I feared it would get a fungal infeciton and die but I guess it was alright. I decided I wanted a circular path day one when I looked at my boxey garden and so made the path and central lawn, and it seemed logical to make circles in each oorner and have deep borders but the idea of the "cherry tunnel" and the hodden corner cam as the tree grew. Next door have an amanagowa for after the pink comes nextdoors pinky white and then our bright pink blosson om the other side. I planted to have differne flowers every month. The only disappontment I have is the wisteria which has for some reaosn never flowered. Any ideas ? Anyway my tip is think long term, go with clear designs for living space in mind based upon where the summer light is in the morning and in the afternoon, and adapt the plants to do a job for you as they grow, cutting back ruthlessly as I do. And good luck ! Thanks for the interest.