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Border Planting Design - more tips with some fabulous plants that I can't do without
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Border Planting Design - more tips with some fabulous plants that I can't do without

PLUS: the pros and cons of bulb lasagne, and your thoughts on lilacs

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Sep 23, 2023
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Dorset Walled Garden

Before I kick off, this is a reminder that the reduced subscription offer finishes today, so do sign up if you’d like to take advantage of that. The Gardening Mind works because of you, the reader, as an integral part of everything that we do here. You read the letters, you communicate with each other on the Chat, you come to the Zooms, you comment, you email with contributions and thoughts, and you share posts. Thank you for taking the time to support it. And if you’re wondering what I’m going on about, do take a moment to have a look at the “Finding your way around’ post here. I hope you’ll think it’s worth coming to join us.

This week, it’s all about those unsung heroes, the poor old flowering shrubs which are super-useful but which aren’t used as widely as roses and hydrangeas: my mission is to tempt you into using them in your borders. I promise you, once you have them, you simply won’t want to be without them. Let’s see if I have any success!

Part of the Border Planting Design Series, I’m going to be looking at some of these invaluable plants, some of which may be new to you, along with some old favourites, to see how we can make them work for us in a way that feels both fresh and classic.

Firstly though, I’d love to hear your thoughts on that bulb-planting method that goes by the name of the bulb lasagna - I was asked this week if I’d ever tried this method and what I thought of it, and I had to give a very honest answer:

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