Does your flower border need a complete revamp? Or are you starting from scratch with a new border? At the Middlesized Garden, we’re renovating our main herbaceous border, so we’ll take you through how to do it, step by step.
00:00 The best time of year to revamp a flower bed
00:21 Tom Brown of West Dean Gardens https://www.westdean.org.uk/gardens
00:25 Steve Edney and Lou Dowle, The No Name Nursery Kent https://twitter.com/stevenedney4
00:29 Posy Gentles garden designer: https://www.posygentles.co.uk/
00:32 Jane Beedle, former garden designer and cookery influencer: https://www.instagram.com/janebbakes/
01:33 Which plants to plant in autumn and which in spring: https://youtu.be/80qKSvYlMnE
01:48 15 really resilient, drought tolerant plants (which can also cope with rain!): https://youtu.be/teMYyXl9vv8
01:58 When revamping a border or starting from scratch, dig all plants up
02:30 To design a low maintenance garden: https://youtu.be/yiPB7n6ELc4
02:36 Pick through the soil thoroughly to get out roots of perennial weeds
03:05 Cover the whole border with 3″-4″ garden compost, well rotted manure or other soil improver
04:24 Measure the garden and think of a theme or colour before choosing plants
04:35 How to create a stunning perennial border video: https://youtu.be/1QWrbmxnJAI
04:56 How to create cottage garden style: https://youtu.be/u0Me96RiM5c
05:02 Naturalistic Planting – how to get it right in your garden video: https://youtu.be/1i18ZutJV8c
05:08 Research plants and make a plant list before you go shopping
06:08 Decide if your border is sunny, shaded or part-shaded and choose appropriate plants
06:48 The Middlesized Garden Beautiful Borders Planning Checklist: https://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/the-middlesized-garden-beautiful-borders-planning-checklist/
07:09 How to Create Stunning Garden Borders: https://youtu.be/SQRTVeCLHmE
07:16 Buy fewer varieties of plant and more plants of each variety
08:20 How far apart to plant plants?
09:18 Beautiful Borders playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZRLHPUbGmCjrR_RaI01_mGKMaTlx_gf
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The Live Chat disappeared from my screen when the video Premiere ended, and I think there were still some questions – do ask them here, and I'll get back to you. If you'd like the free Beautiful Borders Planning Checklist, you can access it here: https://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/the-middlesized-garden-beautiful-borders-planning-checklist/
Thank you so much for this, another great and informative video. Every week I look forward with anticipation to what you will share with us next and am always thrilled when I see that you have posted something to inspire us. I will download your Beautiful Borders Planning Checklist, it looks brilliant. Thank you!
Thanks for another helpful video. I'm excited to see the transformation of your borders come Spring.
Good tips than you
Fabulous videos as ever Alexandra – I recently created a whole new border this summer and I loved the whole process. My main goal was to plan for ages and plant once, previously I've been terribly hasty and planted things far too close together and had to move things by mid summer. I planned the colour scheme first (pink, white and blue) and have planted lots. It's a fairly small, south facing border (half of it in shade from a tree) so it didn't take too long but literally each meter had different shade levels. Planning all-year-round interest is hard – last month I planted the spring bulbs and its finally complete. hopefully the plants will like it and as it used to be a chicken run the soil is extremely fertile.
Thank you. Going to make a border and can't decide what to plant yet but will buy more of each type of plant. Great tip.
Great advice. Can I ask what is the Dahlia behind you in the video?
Thank you for another terrific video Alexandra. Highly informative and inspiring – as usual.