The redesign

There are three things to keep in my when I designed this bed
1. ease of maintenance, how easily can I manage this landscape
2. Choosing plants that are drought, heat and disease tolerant (except the petunias in the basket)
3. It has to have lots of color. since this area is highly visible, hard to get to and have very high traffic it needs to pop year round.

The plants in the back are fountian grasses, then red knockout roses, with lantana as annual color in the front.
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