Planning Ahead.
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Planning Ahead.
First of all, there is a lot of snobbery about herbaceous borders. Color combinations borders, single color borders, silver foliage borders. Purists will say don't mix pinks with reds.
My advice is that in your own garden , plant what is pleasing to you. The simplest and often the best effect is to go for as many different colors as possible and try not to plant patches of the same color next to one another.
It is a good idea to borrow the kids' coloring in pencils when you draw your planting sketch.When you choose what goes where , color the patch with the color of the plants blooms.
Colors aside , tall plants go at the back of the bed medium in the middle and small at the front. This gives a lovely graduated effect and means that no plant hides a smaller type.
When the border blooms the first summer, mark off any color combinations that YOU dont like and change them the following spring.
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