Most of the time, borders are designed as narrow beds, along a path or at the edge of a lawn. They are intended to provide color in the garden or in a park. Therefore, many of them are replanted every season.
How to care for different types of borders in the garden?
The care of borders varies depending on the type: rotating borders require regular watering, weed removal and seasonal planting, while permanent borders and perennial borders primarily require sufficient fertilization and irrigation and, if necessary, pruning of perennial plants such as roses.
Discounts can also be along a house wall or wall. Then the difficulty in maintaining it is that it can only be accessed or worked on from one side. The width of the discounts should be chosen accordingly.
Maintain exchange discounts
Changing borders are always replanted according to the season. Your care consists of regular watering and weed pulling. Cutting measures are usually not necessary because cut flowers are usually not planted on borders. However, replanting several times a year is relatively time-consuming and possibly costly. But you have wonderful flowers in your garden all year round.
Maintaining exchange discounts:
- water and fertilize as needed
- remove weeds regularly
- plant according to the seasons
Maintaining permanent discounts
If you have decided on a one-off planting with frost-hardy perennials, then you can look forward to an easy-care bed for the next few years. However, you shouldn't expect months of blooming. However, with a sensible combination of early and late bloomers, you can come quite close to these expectations.
If you plant roses, for example, they need to be pruned regularly. This will encourage the plants to form new buds. Bulbs of snowdrops, crocuses and winter aconites provide early flower decorations in late winter and early spring. You put these in the ground in the fall. Only cut the leaves when they are completely dry.
The perennial discounts
You can combine different perennials so that some of them always bloom. They also go great with ornamental grasses. You should fertilize these beds sufficiently in spring and summer and water them if necessary.
Tip
As a rule, borders have fixed borders. This limits the growth of grass into the borders.
