A border garden has a purpose-to enhance the beauty of the flower landscape. These types of gardens have the least visual impact on the landscape and can be easily maintained. Although they’re not as attractive as a garden with wildflowers or shrubs mixed in, they still add charm and color. The type of flower you choose to plant in your border will depend on several factors.
What are the main features of the border you’re landscaping? The focal point is often a large tree, shrub, bush, or flower. Other smaller features like ponds, fountains, statuary, etc. can serve to compliment or even support the main elements. They can also be referring to gardens called border perennials, or ornamental border flowers, as these plants historically grew to be known as.
Ideal Border Perennial Plants Border perennials such as sedums, crocuses, and since, come in a variety of colors and flower. Woody plants such as rhododendrons, irises, and lupine, grow well along the edges of your border. But, there are many more border plants that are beautiful and can be used to enhance your garden rather than compete with the main elements. Some examples of these include conifers, woodland dunes, and woody evergreens. Border plants add an interesting element to the landscape. You can create a very pleasing visual effect when you border plant various kinds of flowering plants, woody plants, and foliage.
One easy way to enhance a border is to use flower gardens with perennial ground cover plants, such as hostas, meadow rue, and fennel. These ground covers never go to seed, which means that they stay alive year-round. Plus, ground covers allow wildlife to visit, which is especially important around your home and near wildlife refuges. Birds, bats, mammals, insects, and skunks will all find refuge in the woody plants.
Border flower gardens are perfect for the beginning gardener who desires flowers and colorful plants. Beginners can start with short bedding plants, such as wheat grass or alfalfa. Both of these perennials are easy to grow, which means that a gardener does not need a lot of space to get started. If a gardener mixes hostas and annuals along the border, then she or he will have both perennial flowers and annual flowers to accentuate the border.
Perennial Flower Border Floral border flowers are popular for several reasons. One is that border flower garden plants thrive best when they are planted at the right height. Another is that most flower plants, even annuals, bloom best when they are planted in the right season. For example, many annuals flower in late summer or early fall. However, tulips flower better in early spring or late summer. This is because they are in their dormant stage, when they are in their best shape.
Border plants are great for the home gardener. As stated earlier, they come in many shapes and colors, which make them wonderful additions to the home landscape. A border flower, such as daffodils or daisies, can be planted anywhere in the yard. Some flower gardeners like to use a border of marigolds in the flower bed beneath the flowers of daisies. Other homeowners choose to plant perennial flowerbeds of tulips, lilies, and dahlias in the flower bed, so that they bloom continuously year after year.
Planting border perennials in the spring is also an easy way to increase the blooms in your garden. Many flowers will bloom, such as daffodils, blue violets, and sunflowers in the spring. Although the tulip can be hard to find at this time, you will be able to find it later on. In order to keep your border plants looking their best, border perennials should be replanted each year, after they bloom in the spring.