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Garden Bed & Border Ideas

Beds are where a landscape gets its colour and its seasons. These designs range from long perennial borders and cottage-garden abundance to clipped parterres and raised beds for vegetables, each with a clear edge that keeps the look intentional.

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Garden Bed & Border Ideas, explained.

Beds are where a landscape gets its colour and its seasons. These designs range from long perennial borders and cottage-garden abundance to clipped parterres and raised beds for vegetables, each with a clear edge that keeps the look intentional.

Plant in drifts of three, five and seven, repeat a few plants along the bed and give it a crisp edge of steel, stone or a mown strip. Save the borders whose plant palette suits your zone and your patience.

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