what can i grow in heavy soil?

[happyjack12]

h, live in north west, just want to fill a flower bed!
heavy poor draining soil, have tried all sorts, things that do grow- poppies, lupins , red hot poker, london pride
I'd love a blueberry bush-would this grow? roses ? something hardy i guess..
or an ever green shrub, bush type thing which flowers as well, don't want a tall grower, more a wide one...
can you tell i'm not a gardner?? ha ha
any suggestions ?
TIA

Have you forked in grit and soil improver? They might help, but are short term so need adding each spring.
Blueberries like ericaceous soil, I grow mine in very large pots.
Roses like clay soils, as do hydrangeas. Crainsbill geraniums grow almost anywhere and come in different varieties.

I have a border with really heavy clay soil, I worked some grit through it and I have hebes, pieris, oleander, alpines and sage which are all thriving.

I'm also in the NW, one of my borders is heavy clay and poor draining. It's wide, so some of what I've got is probably bigger than what you're after but the shrubs include:
Dogwoods, hydrangeas, rhododendrons (the soil is neutral not acid, but we treat their area with iron sulfate which keeps them happy), mahonia, euonymus, spirea.

Perennials include astilbe, geraniums, purple loostrife, phlox, a couple of different types of campanula (tall lactiflora and the ground cover sort), candelabra primulas,iris (the bog garden type) , pulmonaria, crocosmia, aconite, vinca, ajuga reptans. (Theres a few other things I can't remember the name of).

On the fence theres ivy (we didn't plant it, and it's hard to control), pyracantha, a jasmine, some clematis including a clematis Montana.

And there's also random self-seeded foxgloves,honesty and forget-me-nots. And too much red campion.

thanks everyone.
so I got foxgloves, astilbe,geraniums,clematis.

and then a random echinacea and acer from "casualty corner "