Creating a Flower Border With Curb Appeal
Research Triangle Park, N.C. – Creating a beautiful flower border adds curb appeal to your home. But it takes careful planning to create beauty from your plantings.
“Blend plants for the longest season of color, artfully mix in different plant textures, shapes and sizes, and work within a well-established color theme,” says Bayer Advanced garden expert Lance Walheim, author of Landscaping for Dummies.
And it’s not always about blooming plants. Dramatic foliage, bright berries or fruit, and even colorful branches can all contribute dramatic hues.
Here’s a checklist to consider when planning a colorful garden bed:
- Annuals. Quick-blooming annuals are the all-important fillers in the flower bed. Use them wherever there’s room. Plant pansies, violas, calendulas and primroses for spring and fall color (even winter in mild climates), then follow up with heat lovers like zinnias, marigolds and vinca.
- Bulbs. Spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils provide carefree color year after year, but don’t forget the summer bloomers like dahlias and canna. Also consider planting low-growing annuals and perennials on top of the bulbs. They’ll create a colorful carpet that the bulbs will push through and bloom above.
- Perennials. Count on these to be the workhorse of your bed. There are so many to choose from: campanula, dianthus, geranium and phlox for spring and early summer; yarrow, coreopsis, daylilies and rudbeckia for midsummer; and asters, pennstemon and mums for fall. Don’t forget the great foliage plants like ornamental grasses, hostas and Artemisia.
- Shrubs. Shrubs are the backbone and backdrop of the flower border. As the backbone, plants like shrub roses, viburnum and dwarf crepe myrtles provide structure and organization but also can contribute a long season of color and interest. As backdrop, their foliage makes everything else stand out and look more dramatic. Look for plants that bring long seasons of color beyond bloom. There are colorful foliaged barberries, bright-fruited plants such as rugosa roses and viburnums, and shrubs like crepe myrtles and serviceberry with stunning fall foliage color. Even plants with showy branches like the red-twigged dogwood can provide color in winter.
Bayer Advanced™ All-In-One Rose & Flower Care Concentrate protects all your flowers and shrubs from insects and diseases, and feeds them too. Just mix with water and pour around the base of the plant. Apply every six weeks for protection.
About Bayer Advanced
Bayer Advanced lawn and garden products are created by Bayer Environmental Science, a business unit of Bayer CropScience LP and part of the Bayer AG family, a Fortune Global 500 company that makes such well-known brands as Bayer Aspirin, Aleve® and Alka-® Research Triangle Park, NC, is the business headquarters of the company''s NAFTA Region. Kansas City, MO, is the company''s core technology center. The global headquarters of Bayer CropScience is located in Monheim, Germany.
Bayer Advanced products deliver Better Science. Better Results.™ and carry a money-back guarantee. They are available at major retailers and independent garden shops across the United States. You can learn more by visiting www.bayeradvanced.com or by calling 1-877-BAYERAG.
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