Newbie house owner and gardener with two questions?

[Jetta]

Hey there, hope I can get some help,sorry if this is long

!. I have Daisies planted close to my back door and I love them, but they attract a million earwigs. I'm going to move them to my back garden, but would like a suggestion for what to plant in the space I will have empty near my back door. I like perrenials but not bugs. The space is defined by a interlocking brick patio, where there are three flower beds cut out.

2. My garden on the side of the house has 4 flowering bushes and from research I think they are webagalia? Anyway I love them and would like to know how I could go about splitting them or taking cuts to grow new ones. My idea is to have alot of these around the border of my house.

A few more info's I live in Canada and am in the dead of winter with alot of snow. I am hoping to have a plan of what I can do in the spring to get my garden going. It's been two years in this house and besides weeding and defining out the spaces I want plants I haven't been able to do much more. The few owners back kept a really good garden but the other owners since then let it go. I also have lots of Tiger lillies, box shrubs, periwinkle, tulips, daffodils, crocus, japanese grasses, and about 4 different kinds of hosta. My house is a santa fe orange brick
thankyou rob your links were right on.

As for the area around my backdoor it recieves sunlight from around 1-5pm in the summer. I would prefer not tohave any vines thier, and would the roots affect my interlocking brick

 

[meanolmaw]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=weigela&aq=0&aqi=g10&oq=weige

2.... weigela?...

how about a nice sedum by the back door?... Autumn Joy would be pretty.... cut it in half mid summer and it won't get so tall that it flops over... plant a smaller sedum like Sedum Acre at the base and they'll grow together nicely...