I'm hoping for some with how to plan my patio border. I'm a complete numpty when it comes to this kind of thing and tie myself in knots.
We have a fairly large patio and then a border, about 6 or 7 metres wide and 2 metres deep between the patio and the lawn. It is on a slight slope.
At the moment there is a pieris at each end, an azalea, a carnation plant, some other shrub and the rest is just bare earth. I like purples and blues so would like to keep to that theme.
How do I decide what to put in it? All the sites I look at seem to talk about different heights etc but presumably I need to keep everything low as I still want to see the lawn.
I had thought about putting some long planters on the patio as at the moment it just kind of drops off, but that would obscure part of the border, meaning you could only see it from the lawn. However, if I did that, I suppose I could put taller plants behind it.
I get bewildered by perennials, bedding plants etc, and how many plants I should be putting in ideally.
Help!