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Plant suggestions for border
I'm in the process of making a border in front of my shrubs and am looking for suggestions on what to plant in the front to compete with three quite large shrubs (forsynthia, pyracantha and pittosporum)?
The border curves from a north west to east. As a result some parts are close to full sun, while others are shaded. Ideally, I'm looking for white, blues, purples and yellow flowering wildlife friendly plants.
I'm thinking ajuga for the shadier areas as well as perhaps some anemones. One or two larger plants would be good.
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I like Nepeta. Purple, low ( up to half a meter) and spreading and long flowering, seems to cope in sun or shade on my chalk/flint soil. Has a bit of the lavendar look without the high maintenance...bees love it.
I have a raised bed built around a huge established forsythia. It was created a year ago and I dug well rotted manure before planting.
It has perennial wallflower (bowles maI've), hardy geranium (eureka), blue lupins, saliva, leucanthemum, astrantia (Jumble hole) and penstemon 'heavenly blue'. This side gets sun from afternoon onwards. Everything has done very well, especially the penstemon, astrantia and lupins. These is also a tree peony but that's too young to have flowered yet.
The shadier side has oriental poppies and hardy geranium (war grave pink). The soil on this side is shallower and poorer and both have thrived. No gaps remain so, happily, weeds can't grow.