What Is A Border Garden?
Border gardens are by definition, gardens that function as a defining border around buildings, walkways, and other areas in the landscape. Gardens had the additional benefit of creating space for wildlife, today, many designers are choosing to fill border gardens with species of plants that not only look good, but more importantly, create habitat that will support wildlife. A well-designed border garden blends seamlessly into the surrounding hardscape. Often composed of a mix of perennials and annuals, these spaces are meant to add color and beauty to your landscape, while creating continuity and a sense of completeness. How to plant one yourself? Here are the main points.
This bright border garden shows off gorgeous fuchsia and red blooms and some white bloomign grouncovers as a juxtaposiеtion.
A manicured green lawn, a tall living fence and a fantastic border garden with pink, green, white and purple blooms, various types of shrub and trees are a chic combo.
This refined border garden along the wooden fence catches an eye with purple, lilac and yellow blooms and some trellises cover the fence with greenery.
Greenery, white, lilac and blush flowers line up the wooden pathway making it eye-catchy.
A front porch accented with bold pink blooms and greenery along it looks amazing.
A tall living fence, some trees and tall purple allium are a gorgeous combo to keep privacy and still get a natural look.
Choose A Color Scheme
There are endless ways to go about choosing colors for your border garden. Firstly, take note of surrounding structures. Is your house light or dark, neutral in color or something flashy? Make sure that the colors of your garden contrast well with their surroundings so that they don’t blend together. And if your house is a color traditionally considered neutral, make sure the garden doesn’t clash with the house.
All kinds of bright blooms and greenery along the classic fence will add color to your garden and distract attention from the fence itself.
A tall living fence is almost completely hidden with a lush and bold border garden showing off violet, purple, yellow and pink flowers and topiaries.
Line up your garden, lawn or walkway with such adorable colorful flowers and you will get a natural space divider that is extremely beautiful.
A curved garden bed with colorful flowers, a tree and a rock is a great idea to separate the spaces in a chic way.
A garden walkway lined up with blue, yellow and white flowers creating a lush and a bit wild look to confornt an elegant topiary.
A gravel garden path lined up with extremely lush and bright flowers and some grasses to create a feeling of a secrete garden.
A second point to consider is consistency. If you decide to go with lots of color, go with color everywhere. If you want to go with all white, go with all white everywhere–at least for what is in view of your border garden. In other words, if you’re going with a candy-colored theme, go with candy colors everywhere. A border garden that does not match the existing landscape will look out of place and become a costly issue to fix later on.
A tall living fence is almost completely hidden with a lush and bold border garden showing off violet, purple, yellow and pink flowers and topiaries.
Line up your garden, lawn or walkway with such adorable colorful flowers and you will get a natural space divider that is extremely beautiful.
A curved garden bed with colorful flowers, a tree and a rock is a great idea to separate the spaces in a chic way.
A garden walkway lined up with blue, yellow and white flowers creating a lush and a bit wild look to confornt an elegant topiary.
A gravel garden path lined up with extremely lush and bright flowers and some grasses to create a feeling of a secrete garden.
Hydrangeas of all kinds have always been one of the best border and fence flowers, and such bold ones will add color to your garden.
Little and messy colorful mary-buds like these ones will add curb appeal without that 'in your face' effect.
Overlap Bloom Times
To pick the best border garden plants, pay close attention to when your selected plants bloom in your region. On a sheet of paper, draw a line and label it with the months of your growing season, then add a line above or below the baseline with the bloom times of each selection. Note any gaps that might occur and search for additional species to fill in the gaps so that there are plants in all phases of blooming throughout the season. This will be beneficial to the overall look of the garden, as well as pollinators.
An elegant long garden bed with colorful tulips is a perfect idea as tulips don't require too much maintenance and bring in much color and interest.
Ferns and other greenery are amazing to create a border garden to line up something in your outdoor spaces.
Mix Textures
After considering colors and bloom times, it’s important to keep in mind the various textures you can bring into your garden space. Border gardens offer an opportunity to bring attention to surrounding structures and ideally, the border should provide texture and fullness. While selecting plants, keep various leaf sizes, shapes, and arrangements in mind and try for a mixture that will provide the right amount of texture. The vertical lines of ornamental grasses, for example, go nicely with other linear structures and pathways, while the thick, rounded leaves of many shade plants provide contrast. Collectively, the varying textures can be used to compliment and accentuate the surroundings.
Blue forget-me-nots and orange tulips create a jaw-droppingly contrasting combo that is perfect for any garden, not just a border one.
A stylish modern garden featuring gravel and pavement paths, a green lawn and ornamental grasses and some blooms to line up these pathways.
A textural and bold border garden with grasses, allium and shrubs brings interest, dimension and texture to the space hiding the fence at the same time.
A lush green hedge paired with dark and neon green accents looks jaw-dropping, this is a modern and edgy no-flower garden design that rocks.
A small garden bed lining up the path shows off white hydrangeas, chamomiles and some violet blooms to add color and interest.
A path separated from the lawn with a greenery row and accented with lamps that will illuminate the way at night.
Hide your simple fence getting more privacy with greenery and flowers like these ones, and add lamps to see the way at night.
Pink iris are great blooms to add color to the space, they look tender and spring-like and contrast the stone fence.
Arrange Plants By Height
Border gardens can be used to create a screen and provide privacy, or they can be used to define a low perimeter. In either case and everything in between, it’s important to consider the height of plants in your border garden. As a general rule of thumb, taller plants should be situated toward the back of the garden while shorter plants should be at the front of the garden. Be careful not to block shorter plants with taller plants or hide groundcovers with larger, overhanging plants.
A gravel path lined up with rocks and bold lavender looks gorgeous and brings that summer feel to the garden, while the fragrance is in the air.
Lychnis coronaria is another bold flower that can be added to line up a house, a fence or a pathway.
Marigolds are a simple rustic or cottage garden idea, and they will bring much color to the space.
Blue muscari, forget-me-nots and mauve tulips create a jaw-dropping border garden that will catch an eye with its colors.
Orange and deep red blooms will give your garden an autumnal feel and you can add them everywhere you want.
A modern garden can feature grasses instead of flowers to line up a house or a pathway, choose textural ones for a bold look.
Pink and orange tulips are timeless for cottage gardens, they will add curb appeal and star blooming from spring filling the space with joy and color.
Sticking to one color scheme in your border garden makes it more elegant, like here blue and purple are paired for a chic look.
Pink garden roses climbing through the fece and bold green and lavender blooms will make the fence extremely spectacular.
Pink hydrangeas, some bold foliage and pink fillers get so much attention that the fence behind just won't be seen.
Colorful blooms contrast the concrete pathway and add interest, color and a catchy touch to the space.
Lilac and purple flowers plus some grass between the flagstones make a pathway look like a real part of the garden.
A topiary fence paired with purple and white flowers for more elegance.
A brick path is accented with colorful flowers, especially tulips, that make it breathtaking, as if it's leading to a mysterious secret garden.
Low topiaries and lavender paired with stones and lamps create a very elegant and chic modern feel in the space.
A white fence paired with pink and voilet blooms that stand out in such a neutral backdrop and add a lighweight feel to the fence.
Bold blue and violet blooms paired with delicate blush tulips will give you one of the most jaw-dropping border gardens ever.
White astilbe is a stylish solution to line up something, these neutrals go nice with most of modern garden designs.
A low hedge paired with white blooms for a stylish modern or modern classic garden look.
Lush white hydrangeas will always be a leader to make your garden wow, to create a gorgeous fence or a border garden.