Designing Long Garden Borders
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Designing long garden borders. Repeating gold themed vignettes periodically throughout the border draws your eye and unites the long space. Sun loving plants will not thrive if they are left in the shadows so keep this in mind when deciding where to place them. Create borders in your garden in six steps.
Curved edges can give the appearance of more space. You ll pick up lots of tips on effective ways to group plants how to cope with different heights and growth habits and how to ensure you ve got the layout right before you actually plant. Once you ve figured out which garden layout you need you can check out the different gardening edging ideas for a clean finish on your plants.
Straight edges look neat but can sometimes make small gardens look even smaller. From gardens overflowing with gorgeous perennial flowers to meander through on a winding path or expanses of vegetable plants and herbs to pick for your evening meal you re sure to find exactly what. 6 divide the garden up with design.
Divide a long thin garden up into rooms. In long thin gardens the sounds from the neighbours can often be intrusive but an inexpensive water feature will help to mask and soften the noise. Large gardens invariably mean larger quantities whether stone for the terrace gravel for the paths plants for the borders or indeed time for maintenance.
Where do you start when planting up a new border. Each gold vignette acts like a color echo of the others. And mel and emma have chosen to do this but to do it very lightly.
Island beds on the other hand are not anchored by a backdrop and can be viewed from all sides. Take into account how long each spot spends in the shade when planning your border. Use graph paper and draw on the outline of the area to be planted preferably to scale 1cm on paper to 50cm on the ground 1 50 scale is ideal for all but the most complicated schemes.