| Most gardeners with large gardens manage to fill | | | | parallel ones with a grass path between them is ideal. |
| them in one way or another, even if involves putting | | | | The path should preferably be as wide as the |
| much of the space down to lawns. Large lawns can | | | | borders are deep. Such borders are displayed best if |
| be elegant, but without children to play on them they | | | | they are grown against a green hedge. Yew is ideal |
| can seem a bit excessive, and there are many more | | | | and it is not as slow growing as many people think. A |
| interesting things you could do with the space. | | | | fairly respectable hedge can be achieved in about |
| Plenty of space means that you can create large | | | | five years and it will begin to mature at eight. |
| scale plantings, including sweeping herbaceous | | | | It is equally possible to use large areas of bedding |
| borders. These are large borders that were | | | | material, especially if you like to create intricate |
| traditionally filled only with perennial plants, although | | | | patterns in color and texture. There are a number of |
| these days a number of annuals and even shrubs are | | | | plants that can be used for these, some growing to |
| often included. | | | | a very even height, while others can be used to vary |
| The plants are planted in drifts, often with five or | | | | this or to create accents or focal points. |
| more plants in each area, so that the border is | | | | These beds can be laid out directly on the ground, |
| painted with broad strokes of color. It is important | | | | surrounded by lawns, or they can form part of a |
| that any such borders should be deep as well as long, | | | | more complicated plan in which a know garden of |
| tall plants in a narrow border rarely work. Try and | | | | box hedges is created, with the bedding plants used |
| make the depth of the border twice that if the | | | | as in fills. Great fun can be had by creating a low level |
| tallest plants. | | | | maze in this kind of way, using a mixture of paths |
| Two borders often work better than one, and two | | | | and beds. |