Looking for ideas
Minosgardener
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Hope this is the right place, I wasn't quite sure where would be best! I am looking to create a double layered border and I am looking for tall plants to go at the back. What are your favourites that you would turn to, to place there?
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Good choice from Verdun as always. I would add tall Michaelmas daisies for late season colour, especially aster novae-angliae which are more resistant to mildew and phlox paniculata which flower in high summer.
All these are good suggestions. I would try to mix stuff that have different times when they are at their best. It is easy to get a border where everything is in flower at once, and then there is nothing.
Flowering times are easy to look up.
Good luck, planning a border is one of the great pleasures of gardening.
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Fennel, especially the purple type and cardoons.
I'd include all of the above but I'd also add some tall dahlias to give a long lasting flower season right up until the first frosts.
Posy, I gave up on fennel, in my last garden it became a nuisance self seeding everywhere and the tap root was a s*d to get out if you left them too late.
I am on a phone so am struggling to see the posts properly to give a proper reply. I have pen and paper next to me writing ideas down!
I found myself inundated already and was struggling to decide.
The garden is a fairly blank canvas and I have planned what layout i would like but am now struggling with actual decisions.
I am thinking approx 5 for high - looking for variety in flowering times. Wasn't sure whether to "just" go for bushes at the back (better for wildlife?) and then in front have a variety of annuals. I love foxgloves and have previously filled a bed with a host of varieties but think perhaps something with more density.
I have a long list to consider still - although i really am not a fan of grasses.
Maybe i am best "just" going for evergreens... So many choices! Hence asking for people's favourites
How deep is the border ? This would help decide what to plant too ?
The size of the border? Weirdly enough I was going to decide on that based on the plants I went for... Or is that a ridiculous way round to look at it?