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How to Plant a Flower Bed: 3 Secret Design Tips!



Want to create a beautiful flower bed in your garden? Well, Garden Ninja shows you how with these 3 garden design secret tips! This easy to follow flower bed design will have your garden looking awesome in no time! No matter what kind of flowers you’re planting or where you live this guide will help take them to the next level.

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Presented by Garden Ninja, Manchesters Garden Designer and blogger Lee Burkhill. He’s an RHS Award-winning Chelsea garden designer and expert panellist on BBC Radio Manchester’s Saturday morning garden phone in.

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34 Comments

  1. Vivien Arnold

    Help! I followed yourinstructionsfor taking cuttings but the fuchsias cuttings havejust grown little leaves instead of roots. Always enjoy your videos. Thanks.

  6. J. M.

    Thanks, Lee. I am a new subscriber from Tennessee in the USA. Can't wait to catch up on your previous videos!

  8. The Enthusiastic Gardener

    Great guide, loved it. I think I prefer the monochromatic border colours, and I must try repeating plants in borders too. Thanks for a great video. Love Barry too 😁

  10. Nathan Dawson

    Looking very nice Lee. I remember you planting that hedge, look how well its done! Hopefully you`ll have birds nesting in no time.

  12. Kathryn Burkhill

    What great advice. I am afraid I have never realised that. It has certainly made me think more. All these years gardening and only now realising this knowhow. 🤗 Mum 🥰

  13. Matt Kirk

    Really good tips. I tend to cram too many plants into a small space and create overcrowding. I’m learning👍

  14. Ann-Marie King

    As always, great tips! I am no expert but share your passion for gardening. I am working on a 60 foot long flower border in a sunny, windy tropical seaside garden with relatively shallow, stony limestone soil. After having my planting struggle in dry conditions with the existing soil (just removing the coralstone rocks and stones), I amended the bed with organic matter and fully decomposed chicken and sheep manure and added soaker hose irrigation, a first for me. How the plants have come on!

    For my garden bed design, at back I have spaced out blush pink oleander, yellow pride of india and golden palms that I hope will be focal points once they grow to their full height. Once they get large enough I hope to be able to grow more tender shrubs and flowers in their shade. For my next level, I planted more formal rows of striped dracaena and yucca, spiky dark purple phormiums (which look like a thick bladed grass and flower for only a few days a year), then informally dotted in repeating clumps of purple texas sage. At front for my lowest level plantings, minty blue plumbago with yellow and scarlet lantana for contrast. So you could say, I've gone for a purple/blue monochromatic palette with shots of golden yellow and scarlet for zing. Btw, absolutely love your garden bed (came here from the video of it almost newly planted) and your hedge beyond … life goals!

  17. Kaaren Jukes

    Hi Lee does that mean you have to go from the short border to the high plants at the back or can it go up and down in height?

  23. foxhound123456789

    These videos are amazing! As a complete novice it’s given me a lot of help and inspiration in starting to transform my garden from the typical new build grass and paving to something a little more interesting! Keep up the fantastic work! 🤙🏽

  24. Totally Domestic

    Thanks for those much needed tips.
    I am planting a cottage garden in zone 9.
    Full sun, ugg. I am following all of your tips. I try to stick to perennials & grow most from seed. Hoping it will fill in as it takes time. I realize i really need to read & pay careful attention to how high the plant gets. Subscribing today.

  31. Trevor Colling

    Weed tea. Brilliant. I have two large compost bins but I am going to use this method to feed them, rather than putting weed plants in raw and ready.

  32. Michael Downing

    Hello Lee,
    My name in Michael Downing and I am a complete moron when it comes to plants, grass, trees virtually anything horticultural but I love Colour in plants/ flowers etc. I have atthe front and side of the house of our house a thin planting border approximately two feet wide where we orginally planted small green scrubs trees which we have cut down now… this has left the front and side of the house very bare and I would love some lovely colourful plants that are easy to plant and maintain.
    I would really appreciate if you could help me achieve this and I will of course pay for your advice.
    I could send you photographs of the area concerned and it would be great if specify the plants needed…you could supply them or simply indicate where I can purchase them from.

    Is this something that you would do Lee.

    Any guidance would be great.

    Thank you so much for your help in this matter Lee and I look forward to hearing from you..
    Yours sincerely,
    Michael Downing

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