A well-planned and well-planted herbaceous border is a planting scheme that can really bring a lot of benefits to your garden. A herbaceous border is simply a collection of non-woody flowering or ...

Often seen as the pinnacle of gardening achievement, the much vaunted herbaceous border leaves many gardeners, if you'll forgive me, rather daunted. The highly prized high summer flowering bonanza ...

Autumn is an opportunity to regenerate and edit herbaceous borders. Some perennials that form rapidly spreading clumps, such as an ornamental epilobium, lysimachia and some aster species ...

At this time of year there are few more uplifting sights than a herbaceous border in full flower. A well planted herbaceous border will resemble a large vase of flowers, with tightly packed blooms ...

So many plants are trying to attract the attention of pollinating insects that they have to stand out from the crowd – so ...

For most ordinary border plants, division is the most reliable method of increasing stock. As well as benefiting the garden, it is great therapy for plants. Although such herbaceous plants are ...

whilst ardent botanists roam amongst the wilder parts of the world to find new grandeur for the rockery or herbaceous border. Plants from these sources which have stood the test of English ...

A herbaceous border in summer is, as he says, a glorious riot of colour, texture and shape but by late summer shows every sign of being out of control, overblown and blowsy; a minimalist’s ...

It Adds Visual Appeal Through Fall and Winter One final thing to consider is that even once plants begin to die back, a herbaceous border can still be visually appealing—just in a somewhat ...

And their secrets are about to be revealed. Herbaceous borders will be the focus of a free public workshop at Hollard Gardens, Kaponga, this Sunday (22 February), starting at 10am and running for ...

So perhaps it’s a good thing that the herbaceous border is no longer a patch on what it was – great masses of colours, all shapes and sizes, guaranteed to catch the eye. They were the products ...