This being a design forum, not a plant forum, you may be better off asking in the shrubs forum, or to tell the truth at your local nursery. There is no point in people all over the continent exerting their brains to come up with plant suggestions that you may not be able to get locally.

If you want design advice, a photo would be good - but we're prone to discussing whether the bed is in the right place or the right size or needed at all, not just plugging plants into it.... Sorry, we're kind of difficult :-)

Of course, someone else may come along and make suggestions just to prove me wrong!

KarinL

fairways, since there are five different USDA plant hardiness zones in Wisconsin, it would be a good idea if you could post your zone in the other forum. That would make it easier for people to recommend shrubs that would be available in local nurseries and would be likely to survive in your garden.

At the site below, you can put in your zip code and find out your zone:
http://www.garden.org/zipzone/index.php?img=neusa

Besides the Shrubs forum, you might also try your local forum. I'm not sure if that would be the Great Lakes forum or the Midwest forum; it might depend where in Wisconsin you live.