When designing a garden, you should not start by buying those lovely plants whose georgeous flowers have attracted your attention at a garden centre and then wonder where to put them.
You need a Garden style from which flows the Garden Planting Design using the plants that are suitable for that Garden Style. The order of abstraction goes down to the Plant Species book which requires reading all the way through to find the names of all the Primroses with Blue flowers (the Plant Type book would have a list instead to reduce your searching time).
The Plants topic in this website will show you lists of plants suitable for different soils, uses, flower colours etc.
You can select cultivated or wildflower plants from The Plant Photographic Galleries by comparing thumbnail photos of flowers, foliage, plant shape, fruit/seeds and within flower beds. Website links to the nursery that can sell the plant by mail order is usually stated in the Comments Row in the relevant Plant Description Page, which is added to the screen when you click on a thumbnail photo.
Also using the 5 flower colours per month of a plant type, you could select a bulb with yellow flowers in April, and then using the photos in the Colour Wheel - Flowers select other plants to have complementary or contrasting flower colours. The other Colour Wheels on Foliage and Rock Plants (as seen in the menu on the left) can also aid your choice.
A combination of books, internet and personal experience can broaden your knowledge and provide fun in creating your own garden space.
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