Any ideas for planting in stone built border?
By Rachcotton
United States 
I'm moving to my first house and there is a stone raised border between the patio and the grass area, i want some easy to care for, cottage garden style, flowers and plants in this. Any ideas? Bright and colourful is what i'm wanting
9 Mar, 2009
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Plant some aubrieta, alyssum saxatile and iberis sempervirens at the edges to drape over the stonework. Then see how much room you have in the bed - there are so many plants to suggest!
Aquilegia, hardy Geraniums, Salvia, Penstemon, grasses like Festuca glauca or Stipa tenuissima, Nepeta, Campanula, Scabious and Erigeron, are just a few to look at.
Seaburngirl has given you a list of annuals - mine are perennials. You can mix and match, of course!
Have a happy time planning your border!
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the world is your oyster but how big is the plot? good annuals for colour are things like stocks, clarkia, nigella[love in a mist] pot marigolds, godetia, cornflower, annual poppy, californian poppy [perennial poppy too], sunflower, annual lupins.
pereneil lupins too.
next time you are at the gc look at the packs of seed and see if there is anything to take your fancy.
9 Mar, 2009