waterfall garden in may

This is the lovely view I get to enjoy from my living room window...thanks to my dear landscaping hubby. This is a somewhat difficult area for plants, as they don't get much sun for most of the year. The lingonberry is doing well, getting quite out-of-control-looking actually. There are 3 alpine columbine plants around a clump of tufted grass that I have almost given up hope on. After about 2 months, still no flowers at all. I tried to plant an amethyst astilbe in the empty spot to the right, but it didn't grow. I've moved it to a place with more sun, to give it a chance there.
In a month or two I hope this space will be full of color and life...it's a collection of some of my favorite flowers...there's 2 lupine plants, one coming into bloom now, surrounded by sages and veronica, two astilbes, three pink foxgloves, and a few other things. The little star creeper actually has flowers this year, although not as many as I'd hoped. And I sure wish I'd planted all of it inside the bricks, not staggered like that. Oh well. It's a beginning!