Which plants for front of house?

[InTheCludgie]

Hi can anyone advise on which plants would be good to put at the front please? My house is on an elevated position and has four tiered levels which are gravelled. We had the walls in the tiered section redone last year and while it looks much better, it looks quite bare.

Ideally it would be plants that like, or can tolerate, full sun (south facing on this side of house), dont grow too high or spread too far or are complicated for a novice gardener to maintain.

Thanks!

Fan palm, other palms, grasses, cordyline & lavender.

I think it depends on what sort of ‘look’ you are after?

Plants suggestions for say, an English cottage style would be very different to an English formal style would be very different to a lush, tropical garden style etc.

There’s literally thousands of plants that would do fine in a sunny spot, don’t grow massive and aren’t too difficult to maintain

Someone near me has a similar set up and has quite a tropical look (I think) so some palms and lots of geums. I think campanula cascading over walls is pretty. Need to keep an eye on it. Hardy geraniums are quite low maintenance and not too big.

It does matter what sort of look you are going for. Alpine style, english cottage garden,tropical etc.

Thank you for the replies. I'd say more English cottage garden style than tropical would suit. Please keep the suggestions coming!

Then I would say some repeat flowering rose bushes with lavender would be nice.
They are very easy care, just cut the dead flowers off the roses, every September I cut my roses and lavender down by half.

Penstemons, dianthus (cut the dead flowers off and cut whole plant down by half like roses and lavender at the end of flowering in September), yarrow is nice, German chamomile, sweet alyssum, poached egg plant, trailing campanulas, heuchera are lovely and come every colour imaginable, lychnis Coronaria, geums, perennial cornflowers, Gaura, scabious I think would all look nice and low maintainance and not huge.

German camomile, sweet alyssum and poached egg plant are all annuals but they re seed themselves every year.

Thanks all! I've just bought a mix of plants you suggested, am looking forward to getting them planted in properly