What would you do with this patch of garden

[mylovelygreysquirrel]

This patch of my garden had old landscaping with weeds growing through it and I have bagged it. It is below my kitchen window. There’s more unsightly landscaping I haven’t photographed, it continues to the end of my garden, with the bins at the end.
I don’t know what to do with it

We need to see the rest of the space around it, I think, to advise

Do you want grass, or better landscaping, or to plant flowers or decorative stuff? It's hard to work out quite where it is or what you're hoping for. Is it soil?

Here is the rest of it

I’d probably build some sort of low retaining wall in front of it, chuck a load of top soil and mulch in there and plant some hardy shrubs

I was going to say herb garden or alpine garden possibly in a raised bed. However, the photo of the bigger area indicates you need to think about the whole garden.

Is it a front garden? So next to the path to your front door?

If so I’d go for some sort of uniformity and something with scent. A row of bushes like Daphne or Hebe topiaria or Pittosporum golf ball with lavender in between. Something low growing at the front or maybe a strip of grass so the flowerbed doesn’t spill straight onto the path. Maybe a scented climber along the fence though will need to be kept under control.

If the soil isn’t great you may want to dig some out and replace with topsoil, or build a raised bed as pp said.

i'd put in some big shrubs near the fence

• varigated holly for berries in winter
• daphne for scent
• choysia for blossom

also climbers

• star jasmine for evergreen fence cover
• clematis for flowers

and then some smaller things near the path

• hebe
• salvia for long lasting flowers
• lavender too

Buy a couple of things and put them in the space nearest the house, and then as you get more ideas, gradually get more until you've filled the space

I have bought some shrubs and perennials online. There is more garden not pictured, and I could put them by the window. I’m not sure, but I’ll take a photo of what I end up doing

Dig it over and add some soil improver. If you go to your local garden centre every month and buy something that is flowering, at the end of a year you will have a bed that always has flowers. If you can afford to plant clumps of 3 the same but if like me thats a bit expensive then just plant one, they will soon grow. And water it well all this summer