re: Updating landscaping - Design

if you want “formal gardens” or absolute symmetry, sure. I’ve landscaped my place randomly with various shrubs/trees/plants/flowers that I’ve either:

-seen at a nursery and liked
-dug up out of the wild
-split or propagated from friends or elsewhere
-sown from seed
-allowed to grow as a volunteer

it’s fun, it changes every year, it’s easy (don’t do it all at once) and best of all it’s damn near free...and it looks good

my advice would be to do one bed/area at a time, focus first on building hood healthy soil, swear off herbicides and pesticides, promote natural biological processes and strive for biodiversity. Look at pictures, research native plants, and be ok with some trial and error

YMMV