New plants and old, got to go plants(to make room for the new!)

Everyone wants to make changes in their gardens, to
"fix" some of the things that don't quite fit or work
out, or sometimes just to make room for new plants. 
In my own garden, I've been feeling like it's 
basically so green on green, and missing enough color
accents, especially as the raccoons so thoughtfully
helped me edit out all the color I used to have year
round from the Neoregelias!  (Maybe I should just do
lots of Spanish Shawl throughout the yard to replace
those hot notes!)  

If I do nothing, soon enough there *will* be color
everywhere if I don't begin to weed out all the
Impatiens balfouri coming up everywhere.  I do kind of
like it all around the garden, with the wilderness
taking over look at first,(my simulation of an old
abandoned garden in sintra, Portugal, perhaps...),
until it gets ridiculously crowded,(and 4-5 feet
tall!).  This year I am also going for more fragrance
too, but haven't figured out which.  Maybe another
Brugmansia 'Charles Grimaldi', another Luculia
gratissima, more Hymenosporum flavum, or back to
Nicotiana sylvestris again, it's been more than
several years since I've grown any.  I'm also feeling
like I should give Streptocarpus hybrids, Diplacus
longiflorus and Dudley cymosa a go again as well,
although they don't really tolerate my laissez faire
attitude with them, and I sometimes lose them.

What new things are you all plotting for this summer? 
I've got to find spots in the garden for several
plants in containers which would prefer being in the
ground finally, such as a Saurauria madrensis
tree,(great red fuzzy leaves, and related to Kiwi) a
Delostoma rosea tree,(with lovely lavender pink
hanging trumpets and foliage similar to an avodado
tree) 2 Rhopalostylis baurei palms,(how long will I
have to wait for the shaving brush and trunk, not to
mention that these get big!), a Dombeya
burgessiae,(has been blooming with clusters of pink
flowers all year long, and I'm uncertain how big it
might ultimately get in the ground), several Trevisia
palmata's, and, and...  

Well, the problem is that I don't have room for any of
them without removing other things.  Candidates to be
banished include an 8' tall rather rangy Camellia
reticulata 'Crimson Robe'(the hot pink flowers are
sure showy, but seem a little discordant), and a 15'
tall Acmena smithii which is in too much shade to
fruit well, and 2 Luma apiculata shrubs which were
forever getting thrip infestations are probably going
to be leaving.  I'd also like to try and replace
several other things that I have lost or haven't had
for a while, like more Blechnum brasilense.  This is a
beautiful small tree ferns to 3' that has long lasting
copper new fronds, similar to B. occidentale which I'd
also like to get more of.  I'd also like some more
Psoralea pinnata trees, more Pimelia ferruginea,
another Eucryphia, and more Neoregelia 'Fireball' for
hanging baskets, as well as more Sobralia macrantha
orchids,(which I even found a local source for at the
SF Garden show!) and this time not make the mistakle
of setting them back years by dividing them. 

So there is alot needing to be done, but it might also
all be waiting to get done, as it seems changes in the
garden are always contemplated in the mind several
different ways until inspiration strikes!  Wondering
what changes are contemplated by other gardeners this
year?


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