There are no hard and fast rules, but often, design-wise, sticking with a more limited color palette can achieve more pleasing results and stop a herbaceous border from looking too busy.

It Adds Visual Appeal Through Fall and Winter One final thing to consider is that even once plants begin to die back, a herbaceous border can still be visually appealing—just in a somewhat ...

Chris Beardshaw's design celebrates the marriage of traditional herbaceous borders within a contemporary garden setting. The very large Pinus nigra inspires the themes of flexibility and ...

For most ordinary border plants, division is the most reliable method of increasing stock. As well as benefiting the garden, it is great therapy for plants. Although such herbaceous plants are ...

A herbaceous border in summer is, as he says, a glorious riot of colour, texture and shape but by late summer shows every sign of being out of control, overblown and blowsy; a minimalist’s ...

The 1920s herbaceous double border at Newby Hall ... Mr Jackson said: "There’s a huge difference between seeing the design on paper and actually seeing real plants in the soil.