Edging plant A compact, short plant used to line or trim borders.
Edible landscape A landscape planted with vegetables and fruit plants.
Ellipsoid Elliptical in section, like a football.
EDGING PLANT - On the edge or border of a bed.
EFFLORESCENCE - The deposit of calcium and fertilizer salts on the outer surfaces of clay pots.
Edging plants are small, neat, compact plants used at the front of the border, in the same way that shrubs or fences define the back of the border.
rock gardens - Good edging plant or small-scale ground cover in rock gardens.
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Calendula make nice edging plants and grow well in containers. If you'd like to use your calendula blossoms in cooking, be sure to grow them organically, either in the vegetable garden, flower border or pots.
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Perennial borders can be edged with a continuous planting of one type of edging plant such as sweet alyssum, hardy pinks, candytuft, or lavender.
This unique edging plant has excellent uniform growth habit. The two-toned foliage has green tops with red undersides. This gives the plant an overall bronze-purple overall tint. It makes an excellent edging plant.
Edging plants Dwarf, compact plants that are used for the front of a border, or for planting along paths or steps. Embryo The dormant, immature plant within each seed.
Strawberries make an excellent edging plant as well as a good ground cover. Plant them in long rows, one or two plants deep, along the edges of flower beds and borders.
Velvety to the touch, lamb's ears is a groundcover or edging plant that can be counted on to fill in wherever it is needed.
They work well as edging plants, too. If you plan to eat the lettuce you grow along with your perennials and shrubs, however, avoid spraying those planting beds with any chemicals! ...
Growing advice: Use as an edging plant or tuck into the front of a flower bed or rock garden. Also nice in a pot or planter. Best in loose, well-drained, slightly alkaline ground, in full or part-day sun.
Companion Plants Grow wild ginger as an edging plant along a shady walkway or as a groundcover. It blends well with ferns, hostas, and other shade herbs, such as sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata).
Strawberries are an important commercial crop, but for the home gardener they can also be an attractive edging plant. Commercial growers have found that strawberries do best if planted in the first half of this month.
This idea can be reduced in scale for the smaller garden and mass planting of the Heartleaf Saxifrage Bergenia cordifolia, a good edging plant, can bring sumptuous texture to the garden foreground.
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Small coral bells make a fabulous edging plant and are particularly lovely when combined with Serbian bellflower, Campanula portenschlagiana. This bright lime-green perennial shares the same height and hardiness as coral bells.
Dusty Miller is grown for it's silvery-gray, fern-like foliage. Dusty Miller makes terrific border and edging plants, offering a striking contrast to the colorful flowers and green colors of your lawn and garden.
Milliflora petunias are miniature plants that produce abundant quantities of small flowers an inch and a half in diameter. They make good edging plants and are also attractive when grown with other flowering annuals in containers.
Use it as a border or low edging plant in the ground. It is fast growing and resistant to most insect and disease problems. While it thrives in the sun and heat, it doesn't like to get too dry, or it will quit flowering.
The rich green leaf foliage makes it an attractive plant for growing in the kitchen garden, in pots with other herbs or as a border or edging plant for brightly coloured annuals.
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Calamintha - a pretty little bush that`s a mass of tiny star-shaped flowers. It flowers endless and is wonderful as a filler or edging plant.
Perennial Snap Dragons - cute and colourful too! ...
Mix them with perennials or roses for an old-fashioned cottage garden design. Taller sorts belong at the back of the garden; shorter cosmos make excellent edging plants.
The foliage is a silvery blue with reddish undertones, and in late summer it produces clusters of intensely pink-red flowers. 'Ruby Glow' grows to about 8 inches tall and is perfect as an edging plant for a perennial border.
 See also: Edging, Plant, Flower, Grow, Foliage
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