1. Lavender
This plant, whose reputation is second to none, will not only allow you to enjoy beautiful borders all year round, but will also embalm your garden with its delicate fragrance. In fact, lavender has attractive evergreen gray-green foliage and, in spring, is adorned with abundant and fragrant purple flowers.
To create a border, it is preferable to choose all your lavender plants in the same variety. For a good development, this plant needs a drained soil, even dry, and in full sun.
2. Santolina
With his silver foliage will be the most beautiful effect to border a driveway, for example. Its advantage is that it retains its aesthetic qualities throughout the year. Indeed, it will walk in the form ofa thick carpet of a silver color that will illuminate the bright yellow of the flowers on sunny days. This hardy plant withstands temperatures down to -12° and thrives in drained soil, in full sun.
3. Germander
Germander, a perennial plant, is characterized by evergreen dark green foliage and bright pink spike-shaped flowers. This plant appreciated by pollinators likes a rather calcareous drained soil, whether in full sun or in light shade.
It is a plant rather adapted to regions where winters are milder.
4. Boxwood
This small evergreen shrub will allow you to delimit the spaces of your garden whatever the plants you grow there, because it harmonizes with everything. Another of its advantages is that it easily supports the size and can thus be maintained at the desired size. It likes a drained soil preferably in partial shade. It is an easygoing and hardy shrub.
5. Rosemary
This aromatic plant with evergreen and fragrant foliage does not fail to evoke Provence, nevertheless, it is an easy plant to grow no matter what region you live in. It supports the size well, which will allow you to draw your borders according to your desires. In spring, you will appreciate its small flowers which will bring a discreet colored touch.
6. Thyme
This other aromatic plant is a perennial that will find its place on the edge of a driveway or a bed in a sunny location. Like rosemary, thyme has evergreen foliage and is covered with small flowers on sunny days. It is a perfectly hardy plant that thrives in well-drained, even dry soil.
7. Hyssop
Hyssop is another aromatic plant evergreen and fragrant foliage all year round. It is often present in vegetable gardens, but you can also use it as a border in your ornamental garden.
Throughout the summer, its pink, white or purple flowers, depending on the variety, grouped in spikes will bring a touch of color to your borders.
It is to be planted in the sun in a drained and light, even dry soil.
8. Fern
Why not opt for ferns to draw borders? Their semi-evergreen cut foliage will bring a graphic touch to your exterior. The fern particularly likes shade or partial shade, in regions with a humid atmosphere.
9. Aubrieta
Because she creates a dense and homogeneous carpet throughout the yearand requires little maintenance, aubrieta lends itself particularly well to creating borders for a rockery or on a low wall.
In spring, it is covered with a beautiful pink or blue bloom. However, this rock garden plant thrives in drained soil. To maintain a compact habit, it will be necessary to cut back the tuft at the end of flowering.
10. Fleabane
Fleabane, also called wall daisy, is an evergreen perennial that grows rapidly. At maturity, it measures about twenty centimeters high and spreads in record time, which explains its success when it comes to borders.
Its flowers, which bloom from spring until the first frosts, evoke daisies, but over time they turn pink. It is an undemanding plant that will flower best in the sun, in a drained, dry, rather poor, even stony soil.
11. Japanese grass
To elegantly dress the edge of a bed, you can opt for this rhizomatous perennial grass. Its long fine, linear and flexible leaves form a tuft which brings luminosity to shaded or semi-shaded spaces, which are its favorite areas.
Even if its foliage is deciduous, it remains very decorative for a good part of the winter. It is an easy-going and hardy plant that thrives in humus-rich soil.
12. Bergenia
Bergenia is another rhizomatous perennial. Its development being quite slow, it will spread without becoming invasive. Its thick, glossy foliage is evergreen.
At the end of winter and until spring, strong stems appear, on which panicles of bell-shaped flowers develop. They can be white, intense pink or pastel pink depending on the variety. This very hardy and resistant plant needs to be installed in drained but cool soil, whatever the exposure.
13. Lonicera nitida
Also called shrubby honeysuckle, this shrub with a dense and bushy habit has dark green evergreen foliage that illuminates the young shoots which have a more golden hue. For a rectilinear rendering, it is advisable to prune it once or twice a year. Rustic, it likes the sun or partial shade.
14. Dianthus
This herbaceous plant is also known ascarnation of poets. It bears evergreen foliage and is covered with beautiful flowering in various colors and shapes depending on the cultivar. Very resistant, the dianthus appreciates sunny locations.
15. Hydrangea
Well known with its pompom-shaped flowers, the hydrangea is a shrub that seduces with its beautiful colorful bloom. If its foliage is not persistent, the faded flowers can be left in place where they will dry out to bring a decorative touch to the garden until winter. But according to your preferences, you can cut them. Hydrangeas can be used to create beautiful borders along a path, for example.
16. Hellebore
More commonly known as the Christmas flower, hellebores are appreciated for their winter flowering. To create a border along a lawn or a bed, they have the advantage of bearing evergreen foliage which is adorned with delicate flowers in winter in a whole palette of colors depending on the variety.
Hellebores particularly like shady places.
17. Scabious
Undemanding in terms of soil type and very resistant, this herbaceous plant is perfect for creating borders. In summer, it is covered with generous, colorful blooms that will give your borders a rustic and natural look.
Depending on its variety, this plant can be perennial or annual, which means that if you want to enjoy it year after year, you should choose a perennial variety. Moreover, the number of cultivars is so large that you will be spoiled for choice between the different colors of flowers, their shape, single or double, etc.
Tip: For abundant flowering, place it in the sun in a drained soil.
18. Perennial Geranium
Among the many varieties of geraniums, you can bet on perennial geraniums and their decorative foliage, deciduous or evergreen depending on the variety, to dress borders.
Beyond their foliage, geraniums are known for their long and generous flowering which begins in spring and extends until the first frosts. The other advantages of geraniums are their hardiness and their clump or dense mat habit, which limits the appearance of weeds. Choose the variety based on exposure and your growing conditions.
19. Heather
This perennial plant is perfectly adapted to edge installation because of its evergreen foliage and compact habit. It is also a very good ground cover. Depending on their variety, some heathers flower in summer and others in winter. You can therefore alternate them in your border. On the color side, you will have the choice between white, pink, mauve or purple flowers.
20. Money Basket
Silver baskets, or Iberis sempervirens, are perennials that cover themselves with small flowers, usually white, but can also be purple or pinkish-white, from spring until autumn.
This small plant with evergreen foliage and a domed habit makes it possible to create borders and keep them neat whatever the season, especially sinceit does not exceed thirty centimeters in height for 45 cm spread.
Very resistant to disease, drought, it supports temperatures down to -15°. It needs to be placed in the sun in a well-drained soil.