These perennials add a ton of color and texture to border gardens through the growing season.
Creating a dynamic display requires some thought about leaf shapes, sizes, colors, and textures.
Without a good mix, gardens feel flat and somewhat dull.
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Think of it like putting together a group photo.
Choose a native plant to avoid inadvertently planting aninvasive or aggressive groundcover.
Theseshade-loving plantscan handle a variety of soils and conditions once established except for soggy soil.
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Some types of coral bells can even take sun.
Hens and chicks will bloom every year and look great year-round, given even moderate care.
Be sure to plant them in a location where they can slowly spread and remain for many years undisturbed.
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Plant hens and chicks in well-draining flower beds or rocky, sandy areas.
They thrive in rock gardens.
Thenative plantain-leaved sedgeproduces broad green leaves.
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No matter their appearance, deer tend to leave sedges alone.
Many sedges grow in tidy, low-growing clumps that work well as anedging plantfor your border garden.
Its resilience makes rose verbena an excellent garden plant that will easily handle droughts and look lovely doing so.
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Purplish pink flowers appear in summer.
Plus, these beauties are rabbit- anddeer-resistant.
These low-growing perennials have finely textured foliage that form an attractive groundcover when planted in masses.
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Leave dry stems standing in fall as a treat for birds.
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