Our garden is divided into two tiers with existing beds either side of a little set of steps. I don't love everything that is in the beds but I'm not going to pull it all out (and some of it I do like), however, I feel like it's missing something at a lower level. The garden is north facing, the house is behind me in the photographs and I am looking northwards in them so the beds do not get full sun by any means, and the right hand corner will be shadier still when the bare tree comes into leaf.
Can anyone recommend some flowering shrubs or just flowers that I can plant here? I'd like something reasonably low maintenance and white, yellow or orange flowers would be my preference.
I'll probably try and take the lawn back to in line with the steps, I plan to chuck grass seed about in a couple of weeks.