Introduction to Garden Borders
Introduction
No one knows which creative gardener decided to line the borders of his flower beds with plants of a different contrasting color and how many millenniums ago. Nevertheless, even unto the 20th century, any well-kept garden which you visit is going to have a number of borders and hedges placed in the garden to add style to the visual appeal.
The most important part of choosing a good border is the color scheme. Just imagine your bed is going to be made up of white daisies. You decide to border it with white chrysanthemums. That does not show much about your creativity or color sense, does it?
On the other hand, if you aim at having a border looking as natural and possible with a good color scheme and selection, and which is definitely not planted in rows, you are going to have something good-looking and unique.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Planning a Border
- Preparing Your Border
- Lime Application
- Manuring
- General Cultivation Tips
- Planting of Shrubs
- List of Different Color Plants
- Borders of Just One Color
- Getting a Period Border
- Narrow Borders
- Aspect Borders
- General Herbaceous Borders
- Choosing the Right Background
- Staking and Supports
- Growing a Shrub Border
- Using Bulbs in Your Border
- Bulb Selection
- Planting Your Bulbs
- Border Bulbs – Hyacinth and Crocus
- Management of your Borders
- Traditional Control of Slugs
- Conclusion
- Author Bio
- Publisher
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