What to plant?

[Gobolino80]

Hi, I'm new to gardening so looking for some advice on what to plant in the 450mm wide bed that separates ours and next doors drive ways. Not worried about flowers necessarily just want something that's low maintenance but nice to look at. The front of the house is in the shade until midday.

A low lavender hedge.

Thank you @Daftasabroom, that's a great idea!

Or take a look at hebe or euonymus, both can be compact evergreen shrubs.

I wouldn't do lavender. After a while they start to look crap

Something that can be made into a low hedge - yew maybe?
What we did to mark out the end of our front garden and the gravel drive was to place large stones along (we had various pieces of sandstone lying around in the garden) and we grew white and purple campanula, aubretia and a couple of other similar things in the gaps. It's been a few years now and really pretty.

You could put in patio roses - there are some that are repeat flowering and the producers claim flower all summer.
They are often 50cm x50cm or 60x60.
It's hard to think of a hedge or shrubs that wouldn't grow too big eventually.
Maybe small hebes

Hebes can be killed in a severe winter, lavender doesn’t look great after a time. You can get low hedge roses. Roses are drought tolerant and come through severe winters.

Box (Buxus)?