You have a lot of pretty flowers listed already. From the ones you’ve noted, it looks like you have a sun garden. The first thing to do is come up with a garden plan that will allow you to manage when things bloom, how large the plants get, which are tall and short (so you’re not planting the tall things right in front of the short ones and obscuring the latter ones)–things like that–so when the plants come up and bloom, you’ll have pretty display throughout the growing season.

Here’s a plan that might give you a place to start. I’m assuming you’re in a planting zone that allows bulbs and perennials as well as annuals–and that you have mostly sun, but maybe a bit of partial shade (ferns, for example, will definitely need shade).

So at the front, you could plant low-growing phlox that blooms in early spring and is low-growing. Or candy tuft is another really pretty one (white flowers), also low growing. In the middle of the bed, you might have peony bushes (perennials) which are pretty easy to grow (plant in fall) and the good news is you can find varieties that bloom in early, mid, and late spring. They’re medium height–sort of like your daisies. The in back, you can plant foxglove which grow tall–these are biennials, so you’ll want to buy plants that are in bloom next spring–that way you can enjoy them the first season.

That’s just an idea about how to think about planning a garden, You can add in spring bulbs that come up before all this stuff, and then sedums (Autumn Joy is beautiful in fall) and chrysanthemums that bloom in fall. That way you’ll have early to late pretty flowers.

You can put in your daisies, too, but be sure to leave room for them, because they’ll really spread. The lilies are bulbs, so you can also plant them for mid-to-late spring blooming (depends on what you get). Sunflowers are annuals, and you can get large and small varieties, so decide where you want them, then buy the sort for where you site them.

As the previous answer suggested, roses are fairly tricky and since you mention just starting this garden, maybe they’d be challenging to tackle right off the bat.

Oh, and if you do have some shade, hostas are great. Impatiens (annual flowers) are beautiful–and both are easy to grow.

Look at some online sites like Bluestone perennials, WhiteFlower Farms, John Scheepers (bulbs) and get some great ideas!

You’ll have a great time–half the fun is planning it all.

Virginia

1. Lilies
2. Gladiolus
3. Roses
4. White daisies
5. Sun daisies
6. Maybe carnations
7. Maybe sunflowers

Does anyone have any suggestions to add to my list that are popular, beautiful flowers that you would buy? Thanks in advance.