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.
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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?