What to do with this space?

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End of front garden, just over a foot deep and two metres wide, currently full of weeds, gets sun all day......what can I do with it? I was thinking cosmos but will gladly take recommendations from you experienced lot!!

Please note that I'm a newbie to gardening!! Thanks all!

Cosmos are lovely and cheerful! A herb garden?

Cosmos are lovely but will leave site mud and unloved for 6 months (+) per year. If sun all dsy then herb garden better idea, with rosemary, majoram, oregano, thymes, sage etc. Variation in leaf colour and texture (and evergreen) and if planted with spring bulbs could look lovely. Avoid annyal herbs eg basil. If planting mint or lemon balm, put in pot and plunge in, although mint (not evergreen) would not like full sun all day.

Thank you! The only thing I don't like about a herb garden is that I've seen rats in the area so would be too worried to eat anything! I'd really like to grow some peas or green beans but haven't due to rats

Lavender?

Wash everything before using. The peas and beans you buy won’t have been insulated from rats and some of the fields will have been manured.

How about a couple of neat little shrubs that will keep their leaves all year.
Euonymous Green and Gold and Pittosporum Tom Thumb fit the bill. If you weed thoroughly, plant your shrubs and then cover the soil underneath them with bark chippings you'll have a low maintenance, pretty all year round end to your garden.

I'd go for something evergreen and then something that flowers in early spring.
Would you like a small tree there?

When I have seen rats it was down to them chasing up the bird feed. I’d use rat traps though.

Euphorbia. Very handy, spread well, look good all year as long as you look after them and look beautiful and striking

I hadn't thought of that with the cosmos, that'll it'll only be nice for a few months of the year.
I've already got two big pots of lavender, but I suppose I could take then out and put them in the space, or get some more.
I'll have a look at the other suggestions too as I'd really like something flowery in there!
The herbs, I may actually do a window box in the back garden!

Raspberry or blueberry (depending on soil type), you then don't need to worry about rat pee despoiling the berries! Or a dwarf fruit tree, which will give you stunning blossom followed by fruit. Despite the endless rain my pear tree is currently in stunning blossom, just hope we don't get any wind in the next few days so the bees can pollinate the flowers and fingers crossed we'll get a good crop of pears.

Here are some plants that give something all year round: https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/plants-that-look-good-all-year/