Jazz Up Your Backyard with Borders
Many gardeners and garden design experts recognize the fact that garden beds placed around the edge of a gate or path, backyard porch or terrace provide a nice decorative touch to any landscaping scheme. Another purpose to use the flower bed border is to indicate lines of boundary or create sectioning within your landscape design.
For instance, you can use a border plant bed to section off certain areas of the yard with respect to particular plant beds inclusive of flora and vegetables. The border floral bed is normally set up in the shape of a rectangle; however, a non-traditional look would be to have a border in the shape of a curve.
When you set up a border plant bed the normal design scheme is to plant the tallest of floral plants toward the back and the shorter flowers in the front portion. Your border bed can continually house plants if you wish, by replacing plants that fade for new ones. Or you can use the floral bed for one season worth of blooms. However if you allow a season where your border bed is without blooms then it is advisable to compensate with some type of blooming plants within your other gardens.
Think of other areas where you can keep plant life thriving in relation to your bordering plant beds. Possible suggestions are shrubs that remain green all year such as evergreens, ornamental grass and other types of ground coverage. The idea is to provide your yard with appeal from a visual perspective in the way of differing plants. Also a good flora bed border should at the most not be more than 7 feet wide. If you make the border plant bed too wide it will be harder to maintain.
However, there are other plant and flora beds providing a border along an area such as a gate or the perimeter of the backyard that when wider than 4 feet need to be separated to some extent. In order to provide the separation backyard stepping stones placed every so often is a good solution. Also when setting up borders consider the fact your grass-cutter or any device used to haul brush or clippings may need to pass over the border, so the breaks in the border will accommodate such a purpose. If borders are located within an herb and vegetable garden area, the walk areas in these areas naturally are more significant than the border.