How can I make this flowerbed look better?

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I’ve attached one picture of the whole flowerbed but also two close ups.

Just in case it’s not clear on the photos the plants L to R are: peony, sweet pea, peony, sweet pea, jasmine behind, Rosemary, magnolia, Japanese quince behind, crocosma (sp?), fuschia, plum tree hanging down almost to the top of the fuschia, can’t remember, honeysuckle behind.

I guess I’ve just added plants without really thinking of what it looks like as a whole and now it just looks a bit... well, as if I’ve just checked any plant anywhere!

Any tips on how I can make it work as a whole? Would it help to cut things back a bit? How can I make the plant with white flowers on the end look better? I also don’t know if I should deadhead it or how I would do that?

First thing I would do is paint the fence.

Then I would get rid of the wooden trellis, it soon looks bleached and shit imo and isn't strong enough long term imo.
Replace the trellis with a wire tensioning system and train the honeysuckle and jasmine along it horizontally not vertically.

I would put the magnolia in a big glazed ceramic pot as I think it needs acid soil to flourish if I remember correctly.
I'd split the crocosmia and have that in two additional, smaller pots.

I'd get one or two extra peonies and maybe another Fuchsia.

I would fill the rest of the space with May - October flowerers like certain roses, erysium bowles mauve, Erodium, echinacea or something.

I'd plant huge amounts of one type of spring bulb too like native bluebells, crocus, narcissi or something.

I'd make the bed deeper and add colour. I tend to think it looks best if you have your taller plants at the back graduating down to some lower level bedding plants at the front.

Yes to the erysium. Mine flowers from April to November and is gorgeous. Here's some of my beds. Erysium is on left in the first pic.

Yes to a deeper bed- I'd at least double it! Get some bedding plants for the front for flowers and maybe some taller wispy plants to fill in any gaps - verbena, cosmos, etc.

I think different 'textures' are important in a border- so some more 'definite', bold plants and then some others that are a bit more 'waving in the wind' if that makes sense. Happy gardening!

Yes to increasing the width of the beds. I'd add some different types of campanulas and perennial geraniums - lots of varieties in different colours and sizes.