Six requirements for plants for decorating garden path borders

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Garden paths can be compared to an art object. It needs to be attractively decorated. The path should become a single whole with the border plants, forming a harmonious composition. And for this you need to choose the right plants.

Basic requirements for plants

A border is an edging for the path. And when it is made of flowers and various plants, it plays with new colors. The main requirements for plants, on which a harmonious appearance depends:

• maintaining decorativeness throughout the growing season;
• unpretentiousness in care;
• slow growth;
• resistant to weather conditions;
• compact and able to keep their shape;
• easily restored after cutting and shaping.

To decorate border areas along paths, you can use annuals and perennials, cereals, ornamental grasses, ground cover plants, shrubs and other plants. You can use both single plants and compositions.

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