How To Prepare Border For Planting
Try to weave your plants through the border and there are several ways of doing this.
How to prepare border for planting. Plant textures can add as much interest to a border as flowers. Follow these with beautiful summer-flowering perennials and fall plantings like asters and chrysanthemums. This is my favorite excuse for adding a container to the border.
Make sure the border isnt too narrow and that its shape suits the garden. Adding a fully planted container is a quick fix. Placing one plant away from the main group deceives the eye and makes the border look larger than it is.
Randomly- repeated textures create a striking effect in this living wall designed by. You can design a perennial or. Specialty varieties can be ordered from local nurseries or increasingly online.
You can create a ribbon effect by curling a line of plants through the border or you can form a wavy triangle that disappears back into the border. Plants die at the most inconvenient times usually just before a special event or garden party. Then arrange perennials bulbs and annuals around them.
Monty Don shows you how to boost the soils fertility and improve the drainage in. Choose your plot consider the placement of your border in terms of shelter and sunlight. If you are creating a new bed youll need to use a garden hose to mark your desired lines.
To keep your borders appealing year round try planting spring-blooming bulbs along with cool-season annuals. If you are freshening up an existing bed you can jump right in. In general the tallest plants should be towards the back or the center if its an island bed mid-size plants in the middle and the lowest perennials in front but dont be too rigid about this or your border may look like stadium seating.