Tips, ideas and inspiration – how to achieve your best-ever borders. Brilliant plants and different border styles from naturalistic to classic herbaceous. Dig in!
Garden structure means the permanent elements of your garden, and how they relate to each other. It’s the paths, pots, walls, fences, arches, arbours and pergolas. It’s the trees and…
If you want your best-ever garden borders — whether you’re revamping an old one or starting from scratch — this post brings together the most gorgeous borders I’ve seen when…
Spring and autumn are the best times to completely revamp a border. So I’m going to renovate the main herbaceous border in my garden. It’s where I focus all the…
Autumn and spring are the best time to plant perennials. So that’s also the best time to fill gaps in your border, move plants – or even revamp your border…
I’ve asked top gardeners Steve Edney and Louise Dowle for their tips on how to create an outstanding perennial border. They’ve just created one of the longest herbaceous borders in…
If you can plant perennial flowers that bloom all summer, you’ll always have a beautiful border. Of course, we all want what Tom Brown of West Dean Gardens calls ‘the…
Expert tips for planning and planting beautiful garden borders from award-winning head gardener Tom Brown of West Dean Gardens.
Perennials are the main flowering element of a successful mixed border. So I went to one of the UK’s premier perennial plant nurseries, Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants, to talk to…
Six top tips from brilliant garden designers on how to choose plants for a brilliant border with a long season of colour and interest.
A herbaceous border is at the heart of most grand gardens. In theory, if you want your borders to look continuously beautiful from May to October, you need skill, space…
A shady border is truly low maintenance and it flowers for longer. Make the most of it – and do less watering, fertilizing and weeding!
How to plant a border brilliantly – design tips and practical advice. How to position shrubs and flowers in the best places, plus other tips.
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How to plant a border like a pro
How to plant a border brilliantly – design tips and practical advice. How to position shrubs and flowers in the best places, plus other tips.
