Where I live we call the strip of land between the street and the sidewalk a "hell strip" since it is notoriously difficult to grow anything there or to keep it from getting damaged if we do. These photos show my hell strip from two years ago in the summer:
When I got here there were large prickly shrubs with red berries in the bit of planting area across from the sidewalk but the only thing growing in the hellstrip was some nasty stoloniferous grass which, with the rest of the weeds, I mowed short. Before I built the arbor reaching out over our side fence I'd planted a tall growing, red flowering salvia among those shrubs and a very large growing 'Kiftsgate' rose which scrambled over the top.
When I finally dug out those shrubs I built up a raised bed for the rose and to provide informal seating. I built the arbor in 2014 originally for the rose. Here I had just begun cutting out the shrubs.
After a particularly difficult job pruning that rose back, in 2020 I decided to remove the rose altogether.