New flower bed finally cut in

I cut the edge for the new flower bed over the weekend. Started cutting out the sod today after work- worked until the mosquitoes came out. I wish I had purchased this sodkicker back in 2024 when I started seriously gardening. It's such a game changer I wish I could rewind and do everything this way. I made it so much harder on myself tarping things and trying to solarize these large sections of grass.

I'm still playing around with design- I did not want all formal- so this was an attempt to lighten it up a bit. Fortunately, it is easy to trench again to change it all- the square beds may not stay square. I did have some people remark that I should have cut something more formal like a rectangle here instead of something asymmetrical. For what it's worth though, I really like this irregular bed a lot more than all my square beds. I should probably add that I'm more of a plant collector than a decorator with plants. I have one of each plant- I'm not planting in clumps of 3 either. It's more like, 'hey, I like this plant, where can I stick this plant', rather than a planned landscaping effort.

Here are my garden helpers- more like garden saboteurs most days. Panda is on the left, Poppy is on the right. They mostly get along, but, they were both adults when they ended up with me and Poppy was accustomed to being an only dog. They do a great job though of keeping the deer out of the fenced yard- almost good enough where I'm tempted to expand the fence to give them access to more of the garden. However, then they do something awful like dig a tunnel under a rose and I change my mind again. They are cute though and good natured so it's hard to be too upset that they wanted a lair under the roses.