I am planting a garden and looking for suggestions, but I want to know what you like too.

Please give me the names of some plants that are very pretty, colorful, and not too much greenery or stalks.

So to sum up, your fav and some that fit what I described.

sweet pea...

Stella d'oro daylilies.....beautiful yellow flowers that blossom all summer long.....plants spread quickly and within a few years will need to be separated....easily done, carefully dig up the plant and either cut with a very large knife or a shovel and replant. They grow best in full sun and usually get about 12-18" high......I recently found the same plant, but with purple flowers.....the color difference is striking when placed near each other....

Pansies. It is so darn depressing with our long winters in central MN that I really look forward to these. They only need part sun, too and come in a lot of colors and look good with rocks around them.

hibiscus is the nicest. tropical and there are some that are cold hardy to subzero but die to the groung until summer
Canna lilies have great folage and large blooms when in direct light. there are varieties with different color flowers than orange. they are bulbs that die after first frost and come up in the spring.
Calla lilies are also nice and sightly more cold hardy.
Camellias are great flowers for the spring and some varieties flower in the summer as well
azaleas only flower in the spring and fall, but are hard to miss when in flower.
birds of paradise have lots of foilage and very few flowers, but it is very exotic, but not very cold hardy

I would say roses in the back and salvia and corieopsis in the front of them and allysum in the very front.
There are so many variations with perennials i dont think you could go wrong with them.
I like David Austin roses for there ability to be matched with any other flower arrangment in the garden.

Sorry, my memory is bad to keep up with flower names. But one thing I can tell you is that my yard started blooming at the middle of march with spring bulb flowers called Crocus (they come out even when the grounds are still frozen, this is unbelievable to see) and I had flowers coming out until the month of December (it even snowed over them).

Try getting plants that come back every year. Get different blooming months periods for your flowers. Mine started blooming in March and with all the different types of flowers I planted I was able to enjoy bloomings across three seasons (almost touched 4 seasons) I really enjoyed my garden this year.