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Plant suggestions for sunny border

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Indecisivelurcher · 05/02/2022 19:30

Hi, my garden was trashed by builders this year so I'm starting again with lawn and making the bed bigger. It's a sunny border, lovely soil. I already have some mature shrubs along the fence. I want to put things like echinacea, asters and rudbeckia in, for more actual flowers. I think these are perennials so will die down to nothing over winter. I'm stuck for ideas on what I can put in with these for a bit of green through the winter... Any suggestions welcome!

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MereDintofPandiculation · 06/02/2022 07:57

Grasses work well with the flowers you mention and provide winter interest. Look at prairie planting and Piet Oudolf

Catname · 06/02/2022 09:33

Looking at the evergreens in my sunny border:

Choisya Ternata Sundance
Phlomis Fruticosa
Phlomis Italica
Carex Everillo
Lavender
Sage
Artemisia Powys Castle (but it is a bit scruffy just now)
Cistus
Stachys Lanata

Indecisivelurcher · 06/02/2022 16:51

Oo thanks! Really helpful.

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Indecisivelurcher · 06/02/2022 16:58

@MereDintofPandiculation

Grasses work well with the flowers you mention and provide winter interest. Look at prairie planting and Piet Oudolf
Oh loving Piet! Very pleased with this.
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ButterMeTimbers · 07/02/2022 09:15

Hebes
New Zealand Myrtle (they come in lovely purple foliage shades, such as Lophomyrtus Magic Dragon
Ceanothus
Dogwoods - not so much green as those lovely firey coloured stems
Camelias

JustJam4Tea · 07/02/2022 10:27

there's a book called brillian and wild a garden from scratch in a year. Which has some excellent idea for sunny borders (not so good for shade!).

minipie · 07/02/2022 10:59

In my sunny beds the evergreens are:

Lavender
Convulvulus cneorum (love this)
Erigeron
Grasses (the ones I have go crazy in the summer though and look a mess)
Hebe topiaria
I also have Star Jasmine and Plumbago as evergreen climbers

About to put in an artemisia “nana”

Harrysmummy246 · 07/02/2022 11:10

I've got Sisirynchum that's evergreen, hellebores, some of the penstemons.

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