My first garden bed plan.

I'm hoping this plan will give me something blooming at all times in the raised bed I like to call the "eye" because of its shape. Daffodils, followed by oriental poppies flanked by dwarf glads, leading into dianthus and cornflower, then aster and sedum. The first bed is in the ground. I guessed about the sun/shade balance here. I didn't try to track the sun's patterns for a few months, and I'm not at all clear how the spring angle of the sun will play out in my garden. I think the "eye" will be full sun.

The hardest part is figuring out what's going to be bloom when, and what the bed will look like when things aren't in bloom. These pictures are my best approximation. It'll be interesting to see how close they come to reality.