Border plants placed along the edge of a driveway can really soften the transition between your hardscape and landscape. Here are some beautiful options.

1. While borders mainly contain perennial plants that return every year, they can also host shrubs, such as roses and annual flowers.

Planting Perennial Borders: Tips and Ideas. Herbaceous borders can work very well as part of a relatively low maintenance, eco-friendly garden design.

This intriguing plant can be grown either as a houseplant, or a perennial if you live in zone 9 or warmer. Either way, it will reward you with stunning blooms.

Last year, I performed a radical act in my garden: I decommissioned the vegetable beds. That's right -- I knocked down the cover crops, raked off the square edges and neat rows of beds, and ...

The perennial border in Rob Proctor's Garden. Borders take a few years to fill in. The rule of thumb with perennials is that the first year they sleep, the second year they creep and the third ...

It's showtime in the perennial flower border. The Oriental poppies, pink and blue pincushion flowers, bleeding hearts and hardy geraniums are vying for center stage and each plant is striving to ...

Baptisia or “False Indigo,” as it is commonly known, is an herbaceous perennial that is regarded as one of the best plants for a perennial border.

Good mixed perennial borders are well planned – not random as they sometimes appear. If we break down the border by layers and create a pattern, the rhythm of the design will seem contrived on ...

As a new gardening season begins, avoid these common missteps to keep your perennials healthy and your borders beautiful. Gardening mistake No. 1: Buying perennials in full bloom While it is ...

And happily, our desire for a new, robust, and very large perennial border dovetailed perfectly with a need to separate the horse pasture from the orchard with a 160-foot-long stone wall.

Americans call it a "perennial border." At Powerscourt, red brick walls enclose the two borders of perennials. As you walk along the path in the middle, you see a total of 700 perennials.