Plant driveway or sidewalk
Long, narrow flower beds often work as borders. They can be placed anywhere in the garden and are used to divide the garden into several areas and to beautify it at the same time. For example, if you want to add an accent to the walkway to the entrance to the house, then lighting is a good choice as well as a discount.
In contrast to the narrow beds in front of hedges and walls, the border is often created at a low height. This means that ground cover and low-growing flowers are mainly used.
Since the borders line paths and driveways, a separation from them is necessary. This not only looks beautiful, but also prevents the plants from spreading beyond the edge of the bed. Natural stones, bricks, paving stones or wooden elements are primarily used as demarcation.
The selection of plants for borders along a walkway is significantly larger than for a flower bed on the wall of a house. For example, you can plant sunny borders with rock garden plants such as gentian, rock carnation or sedum and plant hostas together with onion plants in shady border strips.
To ensure that the border looks beautiful all year round, it is often designed with alternating plants. This means that you plant new plants in spring, summer and autumn. Planting begins in autumn by planting flower bulbs as well as winter aconites, snowdrops and crocuses. After the spring flowers, summer flowers such as coneflowers, dahlias, lobelias and verbena follow, and autumn asters, heather and ornamental grasses are planted for autumn.
