Trying to decide what to plant in this bed in front or our house. We had a gumball maple tree removed. Thinking maybe irises or small bedding plants or should I go back with a small tree like a crape Myrtle or little gem magnolia?

Some kind of flowering tree? Redbud, pear, dogwood?

Crepe Myrtle? Maybe one of the dwarf ones?

If it was me, I would remove the tree between the two windows, line the azaleas up to where they are outside/between the windows (not blocking windows), then level the old tree area and let the grass grow. Or reduce the old tree bed to where it is just a 1.5 foot runner along the sidewalk and plant some bedding flowers (something lower to the ground with color)

I am digging up a healthy crepe myrtle as it's too shaded where I have it planted and it's not flowering. I'm in the woodlands, yours if you want it!