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Advice for small shrubs for front of border

nickoslesterosnickoslesteros Posts: 178
in Garden design
Hello! I've a border about four to five foot deep. Presently it's filled with annuals plus some dalias and a rose or two. I'm looking for some low shrubs to spread at the front of the border and to maybe billow a little over the lawn. The idea to plant my taller flowering plants behind.

Wondering if there is any good suggestions. SW facing on a well draining (sandy) soil.

 Many thanks in advance to you all again. (Learning so much from here)

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Hebes would be good. They like good drainage and a sunny site. There are hundreds of varieties though, so choose sensibly, as many of them get huge.
    Other than that, I'm stuck, because your soil is very different to mine. Others will hopefully have some suggestions for you.

    It isn't a huge space though, if you're wanting other planting in behind, so perhaps some evergreen ground covering plants would also suit. The perennial candytuft - Iberis would be fine, and there are lots of things like Alpine phlox, Saxifrages and Arabis etc which are good for that sort of site. Some of the smaller grasses too, if you like those   :)

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • nickoslesterosnickoslesteros Posts: 178
    Some super ideas. Thanks. Will start looking into them this afternoon.!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Cerastium tomentosum (snow in summer)
    It will spread a lot but easy to pull out what you don't want 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    A compact lavender, or a thyme might do well. Erigeron, although not a shrub is a pretty creeping kind of daisy too.
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