There are lots of ways you can dress up your landscape, and the details make all the difference. Your choice of garden edging for lawn and garden borders is one detail that can help unify the whole ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As you're planning your garden this year—anticipating your beds brimming with perennials and plotting out ...

Border plants offer definition along garden beds and driveways, creating neat lines that help to contain other vegetation. Of course, your exact selection will depend on your desired look. You could ...

DENVER — The perennial border is an English invention to group and display perennial plants. It can be adapted to almost any climate and works beautifully here. A perennial border can be straight or ...

Successful, well-designed and attractive landscapes include beds with layers of plants and a variety of shapes, textures and colors. Strategically placed anchor plants, evergreen foundation shrubs, ...

Garden borders (called herbaceous borders in England) are garden spaces that are traditionally edged by a wall, fence, patio, or other structure, or a house or building, and can only be viewed from ...

Garden design is an art, not any kind of exact science. The "best" design is the one that satisfies you. But there are certain guidelines that have been proven over the years to be more or less ...

Gardeners are quick to be critical of their home ground and that impetus, slowed down, can be useful in identifying the need for change. We sometimes get a bee in our bonnets over some small nuisance.