Bushy Border Plants

One of the best ways to deal with a narrow border is to use the vertical space by growing climbing plants or trained trees and shrubs. Plant rudbeckia as part of a mixed or herbaceous border or alongside ornamental grasses for a prairie style look.

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Bushy border plants

Typically most gardeners use low growing plants to line walkways because if someone accidentally treads off the path stepping on a short plant is easier to recover from than crashing into a hedge. Bushy plants give animals and birds places to hide areas to nest in and. Vines are sometimes used to define a property boundary especially if there is already a fence along the border.

If you need privacy in your yard but don t want to or can t install a fence you still have plenty of options. There s no doubt about it. Rudbeckia hirta are short lived perennials and are often treated as biennials.

In fact they are often used to. There are lots of herbaceous perennials you could plant but many tall perennials are best avoided in wider borders they blend in with shorter plants but alone you ll be left with rather stark naked stems. A well designed border along a walkway or path livens up an otherwise dull space.

These areas make up a friendly habitat for small mammals and birds. Bushy landscape plants create areas of dense cover. The neat bushy upright growth of rudbeckia fulgida fits in nicely among other perennial plants.

There s a great selection of trees shrubs and vines that can help you. Plants that are used as property boundaries.

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