Create a Summer Flower Border

Follow our simple guide and this summer you could be enjoying a border packed with colour and exciting seasonal plants . . .

Summer is the season when you can really let loose with colour, filling your borders and containers with inspirational flowering plants. But its not always easy to visualise and plan a new planting scheme. To help, we've put together a simple border plan, combing flowering shrubs and pretty perennials that flower for moths at a time - many of them attract lots of bees and butterflies too.

Our border design combines low-growing plants to create interest along the front edge; tall spire-shaped flowers for the back; mid-height plants for the middle section and a small cherry tree to give your border extra height and tasty summer fruit.

Add a decorative, fence-mounted mirror to reflect light and increase the impact, along with a stylish bath for thirsty birds, and you have a bright and beautiful summer border.

How to get a border right

• Make your border as wide as possible for maximum impact - here, our border is approx. 1.2m from the front edge to the fence at the back
• List plants you have seen and liked, or use our summer border design as inspiration. Don't be afraid to 'plant-swap' - plants of the same height, with flowers in a similar colour, will work just as well
• Lay the plants out first, and put them in the ground when you're happy with the overall layout.

Plant Palette

1. Digitalis purpurea 'Dalmation White', flowers June - July.
2. Polemonium 'Bressingham Purple', flowers May - July.
3. Heuchera 'Frilly', flowers June - September
4. Digitalis x valinii Foxlight Collection, flowers June - July
5. Timeless Collection roses, flowers June - July
6. Dianthus 'Tickled Pink', flowers June - September
7. Erysimum 'Spring Breeze Sunset', flowers April - September
8. Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue Beauty', flowers July - September
9. Rhododendron 'Bloombux Magenta', flowers June
10. Salvia nemorosa 'Blue By You', flowers June - October
11. Cherry 'Athos', flowers July
12. Scabiosa 'Pink Mist', flowers July - September
13. Anemone Harmony Double Scarlet, flowers May
14. Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum', flowers June - September
15. Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna', flowers June - October

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