I am reading up on growing a nice garden. and I keep reading the term "border" "for border use"
"good for a border". What do they mean by it?
2007-02-18 13:26:27 · 7 answers · asked by Charles R 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
ARE MOST FLOWERING PERENNIALS REFERRED TO AS "BORDERS"?
LIKE CANDY TUFT, ASTILBE , ETC.?
2007-02-18 13:39:35 · update #1
This means that the plant usually is low-growing, and is good for the front edge of a flower bed. It's not tall enough to hide other plants behind it; it may be a flowering plant, or a plant that is grown more for its foliage.
2007-02-18 13:42:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A mid-height, non invasive plant. BORDERS are meant to be viewed from 1 side only and have a back of a fence, wall, or shrubs and trees; the tall plants go at the back and the lower ones at the front.
BEDS, on the other hand, are meant to be viewed from all sides and typically have the tall plants in the center and the lower plants encircling it.
plants that are quite tall are generally referred to as "back-of-the-border plants" while plants that are short are referred to as either "front-of-the-border" or "edging" plants.
2007-02-18 15:07:27 · answer #2 · answered by mickey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A border is the edge of a planter or bed or any other thing. Here's a real-life example from me: I had a flower bed that had a wood edge, along that edge in the flower bed I planted a row of zinnias that were miniature sized, about 8 inches tall. All along the edge, or border, grew the small orange zinnias. It was a beautiful sight.
2007-02-18 15:05:25 · answer #3 · answered by Goldenrain 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A border plant is low growing and typically non-invasive. In other words, it will not grow higher than the other plants in your garden (which would then be coverd up if it did) provided you plan correctly and will not take over the entire area.
2007-02-18 13:32:44 · answer #4 · answered by Sluggo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A border planting is typically low, 4-12" in height. As you want taller planting in the rear or center where they will be seen.
2007-02-18 15:00:07 · answer #5 · answered by Jennifer E 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Round the edge of a lawn or a flower bed because these are slow growing plants of a suitable size which will not encroach on footpaths outside them or lawns and flower beds inside the boundry they form.
2007-02-18 13:35:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably that it won't send out runners. Nothing worse than planting something and constanly having to cut it back off the sidewalk.
2007-02-18 13:33:21 · answer #7 · answered by normobrian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋