Border flowers can be various on coloring. Both long-term, and annual plants will be suitable for creation of border. Their main distinctive feature is the low-tallness. For the rest each gardener is guided by own taste.
The word "border" comes from the French word "bordure" that the edge, border, frame" means ". In gardening as registration of edges of beds and beds, lawns use ornamental plants. The live border also repeats contours of paths and does garden to more well-groomed.
Requirements to border plants
Border plants have to be rather undersized. Normally it is no more than 40 cm. In this case they will not cover higher flowers which are located behind them, will beautifully frame lawn, without falling on it. Besides, it is desirable that border plants either it is abundant blossomed, or had decorative leaves. In some cases happens both.
It is quite good if the plants chosen for border are unpretentious, being near paths, they can be exposed to various influences.
Border flowers, as well as all plants, it is possible to separate into two groups: perennials and annual plants. What it is better to put, each gardener solves itself, proceeding from own preferences. Both at perennials, and at annual plants is the pluses and minuses. But also those, and others can look very effectively if to consider their features at cultivation.
Perennial and annual border plants
If the border is made out by multinotches, then to them usually place compact bushes of annual plants. For example, bulbous (crocuses, narcissuses, tulips) blossom in the spring, and by summer their foliage withers and dies off. To keep decorative effect, in intervals between bulbous flowers which will be pleasing to the eye in summer months sit down. Other option of landings when along with early the blossoming ekzempyara plant the perennial plants keeping decorative effect during the whole summer too. Perfectly looks on host borders. If the flower bed is located in shady side of garden, will approach host blue if the place solar, is better to choose to host poecilophyllous. Among the perennials which are not losing look for several months, astilba, bergenia, periwinkle. Not bad the primrose looks, after blossoming its leaves do not die off. But if after all there is a wish to see abundant garden blossoming, then it is worth looking narrowly at annual plants. One of the most unpretentious are marigold. These plants blossom, since the end of May to the frosts. Compact bushes, spherical, with bright colors from gentle-yellow till saturated-burgundy color.
Undersized asters, petunia, ageratum, alissum, verbena, begonia ever flowering, portulak, nasturtium will approach as border.
One more rather simple option which is not demanding big leaving – to set border daisies or viol (pansies). These flowers are two-year-old, but as they after blossoming sow space around themselves seeds which, sprouting, blossom the next year, impression is made that perennials are planted. Leaving minimum – it is necessary to weed, thin out landings, to loosen the earth. Lately cabbage decorative became widespread border plant. Curly bushes very effectively look. The tsinerariya can become one more nice frame of flower bed. It attracts with unusual silvery color of carved leaves. Species of the undersized plants suitable for borders, there is a lot of. The main thing to think over color gamma. It is important that magnificent blossoming pleased all summer, but there would be no excessive diversity which tires.