How To Create a Herbaceous Border

We’ve asked this month's Modern Creative, garden designer Sam Ovens for his tips on creating an ever-changing work of art.


Garden designer Sam Ovens is an expert at using contrast and colour to find the beauty in a space. We asked him to provide his top tips for anyone thinking about creating naturalistic herbaceous borders in their own garden:

Sam’s key points:

  • Be bold: choose a small palette of plants and use them in quantity to create large waves.
  • Use different textures and heights, so you’ve got contrasts within the border.
  • Consider how plants move. Sam suggests using something like an ornamental grass throughout, to link it all together and add movement.

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