I'd be OK with a forsythia thicket. I'll try to ID the rest of my shrub border, it was mainly inexpensive shrubs since there was no watering to be had. I know there are a couple Cecile Brunner roses, ninebark, viburnums, a smoke bush, euonymous, random pink things. I walked the drive and snipped anything that was interfering with vehicles and will just let the border do what it pleases.