Any of the Mediterranean herbs will like it - sage, rosemary, thyme, lavender. They are all evergreen, cheap and easy to come by and more or less maintenance free. And you can eat them.
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Thanks a lot everyone for all your suggestions and advice. I should have been more specific in my question as the border is going to be cottage garden/herbaceous.
So that rules out sedums etc
Really? Sedums are classic herbaceous/cottage garden IMHO.
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Thanks a lot everyone for all your suggestions and advice. I should have been more specific in my question as the border is going to be cottage garden/herbaceous.
So that rules out sedums etc
Really? Sedums are classic herbaceous/cottage garden IMHO.
Yes, you're dead right. I must get more sleep. Not sure what I wanted to say there. I probably wanted to reiterate that alpines and a rockery was not in the picture.
Based on the ones I sowed last summer, they've got a bigger tap root on them than I envisaged.
As a previous poster mentioned, some plants put down taproots to deal with poor soils, such as rocky, thin soils. They also do it to reach nutrients that are present in deeper layers of earth, such as clay, which is nutrient-rich. A taproot also acts as an 'anchor', particularly in taller plants.
California poppies thrive in poor, and thin soils. I've grown them for many years and often find them growing from the smallest crack in paving where they've self-seeded. My sunflowers do the same. It's quite remarkable how strong some plants are, they will push their taproots through things like hardcore.
You'll have seen this with some weeds, I'm sure. Where they are growing straight out of the asphalt.
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Based on the ones I sowed last summer, they've got a bigger tap root on them than I envisaged.