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Spring Combination Ideas, Bulb Combinations, Plant Combinations, Flowerbeds Ideas, Spring Borders,Tulip 'Angelique',Tulip 'Couleur Cardinal',Tulip 'Curly Sue',Tulipa 'Angelique',Tulipa 'Couleur Cardinal',Tulipa 'Curly Sue'

3 Charming Beauties For Your Spring Borders

Easy to replicate at home!

Garden ideas, Mediterranean plants, Water wise garden, Low maintenance garden, Agave Blue Flame, Blue Flame Agave, Agave Blue Glow, Blue Glow Agave, Blue agaves

A Beautiful Duo with Agave 'Blue Flame' and 'Blue Glow'

Simple but stunning, this Mediterranean duo includes two spectacular Agave hybrids. Imagine how gorgeous this duo becomes when backlit by the sun in early morning or late afternoon!

Garden Ideas, Border ideas, Perennial Planting, Perennial combination, Summer Borders, Fall Borders, Aster frikartii Monch, Verbena Bonariensis, Helianthus Lemon Queen, Stipa tenuissima, Rhus Typhina

A Beautiful Fall Border Idea with Asters, Verbena and Grasses

Summer might be over but the gardening season is not as evidenced by this beautiful late-summer garden which marries small and medium-sized plants with great fall colors. You can easily replicate it in your own garden.

Garden Ideas, Border ideas, Perennial Planting, Perennial combination, Summer Borders, Fall Borders, Verbena Bonariensis, Dahlia coccinea, Malus Evereste, Miscanthus nepalensis

A Beautiful Fall Border Idea with Dahlias, Verbena and Grasses

Very attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies and birds, this interesting planting combination reveals its splendor, season after season.

Spring Borders, Bulb Combinations, Perennial Combinations, Lawn ideas,chionodoxa Blue Giant, Glory of the snow Blue Giant, Anemone Blanda White Splendour, Muscari Azurerum Album, White Grape Hyacinth

A Beautiful Lawn Idea with Chionodoxa, Anemone Blanda & Muscari Azureum

A lovely way of 'coloring' a lawn in early-mid spring!

Spring Combination Ideas, Bulb Combinations, Plant Combinations, Flowerbeds Ideas, Spring Borders, Tulip Mount tacoma, Tulip Spring Green, Tulip Queen of Night, Tulip Ronaldo,Tulipa Mount tacoma, Tulipa Spring Green, Tulipa Queen of Night, Tulipa Ronaldo,

A Black & White Spring Border Idea for your Garden

Black & white!

Summer plant combination ideas, Summer border ideas, Dwarf Gladiolus, Miniature gladiolus, Dwarf Sword-lily, Miniature gladioli Sword-lily

A Breathtaking Duo

Great for small gardens, borders, containers or in a vase!

Derviss Design, Verbena Homestead Purple, Stipa Tenuissima, Verbena Canadensis, low water garden ideas, garden path ideas, garden steps ideas

A Brightly Colored Path

Awash with color, these terracota slab stones steps are closely adorned with Verbena 'Homestead Purple' (Verbena Canadensis), a vigorous, award-winning perennial that blooms its heart out in a profuse display of rich, bright purple blossoms from late spring

Garden Ideas, Border ideas, Perennial Planting, Perennial combination, Summer Borders, Fall Border, Crocosmia Lucifer, Montbretia Lucifer, Agapanthus Loch Hope, Crocosmia Bright Eyes, Chionochloa rubra,Red Tussock Grass

A Brilliant Summer Border Idea with Crocosmia, Agapanthus and Grasses

Easy to re-create in your garden, this planting is care-free and uses little water.

Garden Ideas, Border ideas, Perennial Planting, Perennial combination, Summer Borders, Fall Border, Crocosmia Star of the East, Star of the East, Dahlia David Howard, Canna indica purpurea,

A Brilliant Summer Border Idea with Crocosmia, Dahlia and Canna Lilies

Set your garden border ablaze for weeks from midsummer to fall with 3 outstanding plants: Crocosmia, Dahlia and Canna.

Garden Ideas, Landscaping ideas, concrete paving , garden lighting , ice plant , kalanchoe , low water , outdoor fire pit , path , patio , patio furniture , pavers , planters , senecio , succulents , walkway. agave , boulders , copper light , drought tole

A Californian Retreat

Isn't this spectacular plant combination a real masterpiece with its staggering reddish rosettes of Paddle Plants (Kalanchoe Luciae) providing a strong architectural and exotic presence in this border?

Garden Ideas, Border ideas, Perennial Planting, Perennial combination, Antirrhinum majus, Snapdragons, Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm', Salvia 'Mystic Spires Blue', Salvia farinacea, Verbena bonariensis, summer borders

A Captivating Perennial Planting with Rudbeckia, Salvia, Verbena and Antirrhinum

A long-lasting summer border with just a few ingredients for a captivating result.

Perennial Combinations, Plant Combinations, Prairie Planting Ideas, Summer Borders, Spring Borders, corn poppy, papaver rhoeas, Salvia nemorosa Caradonna, Sage, Oenothera Speciosa, Evening Primrose, Silene Armeria, Sweet William catchfly

A Casual and Impressionistic Planting Combination

A scenery that reminds of Monet's Poppy Field in Argenteuil, where colorful blobs of paint start from a sprinkling of poppies. This casual and impressionistic planting combination is fairly easy to re-create and requires little maintenance.

Perennial Combinations, Plant Combinations, Spring Borders, Summer Borders, Stipa Tenuissima, Mexican feather grass, Nepeta Walker's Low, Catmint 'Six Hills Giant' (Nepeta x faassenii), Allium, Allium Globemaster, Allium Purple Sensation

A Charming Border Idea with Allium, Nepeta & Grasses

Create stunning, easy care and long-lasting border combinations like this one. Inspired from prairie planting, this modern and natural planting combines the rich, cool purple flower spikes of Catmint 'Six Hills Giant' (Nepeta x faassenii) with the billowing blooms of Mexican Feather Grass (Stipa tenuissima), providing an attractive contrast and airiness to this border.

Spring Combination Ideas, Plant Combinations, Flowerbeds Ideas, Spring Borders, Summer Borders, Pink Border, Erysimum 'Bowles' Mauve', Wallflower, Dianthus Laced Monarch, Pink Laced Monarch, Allium Fistulosum, Salvia Caradonna,

A Charming Border Idea with Alliums, Garden Pinks & Wallflowers

Here is a charming plant combination that can be enjoyed for weeks and is fairly easy to replicate at home. It combines the cheerful and sometimes unusual blossoms of Alliums, Garden Pinks, Sage and Wallflowers for a color explosion from late spring to late summer. Add a few Stonecrops (Sedums) to extend the color fireworks into fall!

A Charming Duo

Two breathtaking beauties for a duo that is easy to re-create at home in borders, containers or in a vase!

Perennial Combinations, Plant Combinations, Flowerbeds Ideas, Summer Borders, Fall Borders, Anemone hupehensis, Japanese Anemones, Anemone hupehensis var. japonica, Anemone Serenade, Sedum Matrona, Stipa calamagrostis

A Charming Late Summer Garden Idea with Japanese Anemone, Sedum and Grass

This late summer tapestry has been created by weaving together late season perennials and ornamental grasses. Rather than each having their own space, the partners each mingle, encroach and intertwine on and with the other as a reflection of their perfect marriage.

A Charming Late Summer Garden Idea with Japanese Anemones and Mountain Fleece

Bejeweled with Japanese Anemones and Mountain fleece, this late summer planting idea includes just a few plants that will bring a splash of color to your garden right when you need it most.

A Charming Late Summer Garden Idea with Japanese Anemones, Sedum and Grasses

Bejeweled with Japanese Anemones and ornamental grasses, this late summer planting idea includes just a few plants that will bring a splash of color to your garden right when you need it most. All plants are top performers, earning them the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society. Most of them are deer and rabbit resistant and make excellent cut flowers that can be pleasantly enjoyed at home!

Garden ideas, landscaping ideas, Plant Combinations, Flowerbeds Ideas, Summer Borders, Fall Borders, Aster novae angliae, New England Aster, Japanese Anemones, Anemone Elegans,

A Charming Late Summer to Fall Duo: Japanese Anemones & Asters

This spectacular pair of perennials will provide weeks of joyful color in your borders from late summer to fall. A classic and vibrant mix of contrasting pink and purple for the late season perennial border. Perfect for wet soils. Deer and rabbit resistant too!

Garden Ideas, Border ideas, Perennial Planting, Perennial combination, Spring Borders, Summer Borders, Bog Gardens, Shade gardens, Candelabra primroses, Candelabra Primulas, Ostrich Fern, Phlox divaricata, Primula japonica, Ajuga

A Charming Plant Combination for Shady Gardens: Candelabra Primroses, Fern and Bugle

An easy and remarkable scenery to enjoy in mid to late spring. Most plants are deer resistant and have been granted the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society for their outstanding qualities. They are all low maintenance.

Garden Ideas, Border ideas, Perennial Planting, Perennial combination, Spring Borders, Summer Borders, Fall Borders, Shade gardens, Bxwood, Buxus, Hydrangea Annabelle, Astilbe, Hosta

A Charming Plant Combination for Shady Gardens: Hydrangea, Japanese Maple and Boxwood

Easy on the eyes, this simple and elegant plant combination is a pleasure to live with. Perfect for the shade garden, its refreshing plant palette of green and white plants provides a cooling and pleasing effect. An easy and remarkable scenery to enjoy from spring to fall. Most plants are rabbit resistant and have been granted the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society for their outstanding qualities. Enjoy!