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- Plants as bedding border
- Classic boxwood hedge
- Attractive herbal hedges
- Fragrant bedding borders made of lavender
- Pretty surround with dwarf St. John's wort
- Robust alternatives to boxwood
- Tips
Low hedges are ideal for bedding
Plants as bedding border
Bedding frames give flower beds a frame and ensure an attractive layout of the green area. Bedding border made of wood, stone, metal or plastic prove to be easy to maintain, in natural gardens, however, they often visually disturbing. Here, plants offer as natural limitation.
Classic boxwood hedge
The evergreen boxwood has been popular as a limiting plant for many hundreds of years. It comes in different growth shapes and heights, so that you can tailor the small hedge perfectly to your individual circumstances.
Attractive herbal hedges
But it does not always have to be boxwood. The cut-tolerant Eberraute, a relative of mugwort and wormwood, is absolutely frost hardy and easy to care for. With its small, feathered leaves, it forms dense hedges up to 50 centimeters high. Like many Mediterranean herbs, the plant prefers warm, sunny spots and well drained soil.
Fragrant bedding borders made of lavender
Fragrant lavender is the classic companion of roses. It is less well-known that beautiful borders can be created with this plant:
The bedding border is cut from lavender in summer, after flowering. Cut down only the long flowering shoots here. A light shape cut then takes place in early spring, even before the plant expels.
Pretty surround with dwarf St. John's wort
The bright stars of the dwarf St. John's wort make the natural bedding enclosure a visual highlight. Per meter you need five plants. St. John's wort feels very well in dry garden areas.
Robust alternatives to boxwood
The boxwood creamer attaches to the evergreen boxwood in many regions very much. A variety of penny flowers with similar leaf and growth habit, which are also compatible cut, offer an attractive replacement. These are for example:
Tips
Soft-leaved perennials are also wonderful for bordering flower beds. Although they often catch during the winter months, but swiftly exhale in the spring and then form a dense boundary. Lady's mantle, elven flower, mint or sedum are the most popular here. But also classic culinary herbs such as chives form dense boundaries that can be optically very interesting.