Filling Borders of Gardens
The borders of your gardens can be a tricky place to fill when you want to use a certain color or if you are faced with a met multitude of layers in regards to height or specie. The border of your garden is the external edges of your garden, what separates your flowers and plants from the yard and lawn areas.

Posted Thursday, April 6, 2006

The borders of your gardens are often accented with colors, and in diversity compared to the other plants in your garden. One of the best things about border plants is that you can have foliage plants or small low growing flowering plants, and they are equally effective as a border.

The plants throughout you garden will vary according to their placement and what you want the garden to be or look like, but border plants can be changed yearly with ease.

Why are the borders of you garden so very important?

The border of your garden is going to stop weeds and grass from growing in and reaching into your gardens. Thick and full plants that are used as a garden border will help prevent weeds and grass from moving into your gardens where your flowers and plants grow.

Some topics to keep in mind when planting perennials as your border plants: every few years you will have to thin out a few of your plants so that they do not become too over crowded. Plants that are left in the soil over a few years will continue to spread and become fairly thick, killing off each other's roots if you don't transplant a few every couple of years.

Annual plants are nice border plants because of the simple fact that you can change the way your border plants are arranged, how thick they are, what type they are and such every year. This gives you additional options in changing the appearance of your gardens without worrying about over crowding but you can still achieve a fabulous overall look.