How to tweak your flower colour to perfection

Is your border too green? Does it have as much flower colour as you'd like? I've re-visited Frances and Paul Moskovits' amazing long border to pick up tips on what you can do now to make your herbaceous border look stunning from midsummer until the first frosts.

This video also answers some of your questions from the previous video on Paul and Frances' garden - How to Make a Flower Border Look Amazing: https://youtu.be/qxVxUDkiwWs. It also answers some of the other herbaceous border questions you've been asking.

Frances uses Darlac Snips: https://amzn.to/3qsdFln and Darlac Compact Shears https://amzn.to/3h33mja (note that links to Amazon are affiliate, see below)

0:00 Welcome
0:28 The pink rose is 'Generous Gardener.'
0:50 The difference between a low maintenance garden and a 'wow factor' border
1:03 Videos on how to have a beautiful low maintenance garden: *10 Low Maintenance Plants for a Stylish Garden: https://youtu.be/yiPB7n6ELc4 *Easy Low Maintenance Wildlife garden tips: https://youtu.be/5ft7XW-ZuX8 *Best Low Maintenance Front Garden Tips: https://youtu.be/L4o0JeogWuo
2:30 Frances' update on the border. They will be open for the National Garden Scheme Kent at some point - look for 'Ouden' on https://ngs.org.uk/find-a-garden/
3:31 Keep a pair of 'snippers' in your hand when you're wandering round the garden! Frances uses Darlac Compact Shears https://amzn.to/3h33mja and Darlac Dead-heading Snips: https://amzn.to/3x0P1e4 (affiliate links, see below)
3:55 The best way to dead head flowers
4:35 What to do when the border seems too full of green growth and some plants are taking over.
5:04 The sword-shaped leaves are crocosmia.
5:29 What to do if you want more flowers but don't have any more room to plant in the border
6:39 The dark leafed plant is colocasia. It looks as if it's planted in the border, but it's in a pot, so it can easily be taken into the greenhouse in winter. Some of the banana palms are in pots too.
6:59 Make more space by cutting back leaves on the alliums
7:25 How to pack your border full of plants so they intermingle but don't look messy or flop into each other.
9:42 from left to right: single chestnut pole plant support, several u shaped metal plant supports, single upright metal plant support, hidden or almost hidden is a simple bamboo cane.
9:54 Simple bamboo cane plant support with top to prevent injury
9:59 Single upright metal plant support
10:04 How to deal with pests
10:29 How to use wool-based slug pellets
11.30 How to get into a deep herbaceous border without damaging other plants?
13.32 What percentage of your border is annuals or perennials?
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