Paths, pots, pergolas…walls, hedges, evergreens and arches – they can really transform your garden borders. Here Jeremy Francis of Cloudehill Gardens and @thediggersclub shares the secret of starting a brilliant border with the structure.
00:00 What is garden structure?
00:28 Cloudehill gardens & The Diggers Club: https://cloudehill.com.au/
00:46 Beautiful borders playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZRLHPUbGmCjrR_RaI01_mGKMaTlx_gf
02:05 Walk through the hot and cool borders
02:55 Advantages of planting borders on a North-South axis
03:33 Start your border structure with what you’ve got
04:01 Choosing trees for a small garden: https://youtu.be/i3Om4PJRNMY
04:07 Use hedges for boundaries, punctuation points and to divide space
04:54 Use foliage contrast to improve your border’s structure
05:27 The power of evergreen shrubs in your border
05:46 What type of garden path is best?
06:25 Use pots to improve structure in your borders
07:08 5 ways to display pots in your garden: https://youtu.be/U11GMl5IkGI
07:17 Improving your garden structure with arches
07:59 Tour of the plants in the border with Jeremy
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21 Comments
The structures are nice. Love the paths and the arches. Yet, somehow, this garden is a bit too 'messy' for my personal taste. There's too much competing with each other. I like to allow more very low plants at the edges and also some in between. So plants get to stand out a bit more to glory in and of themselves.
Those six cut of hedges look weird in this construct. Or any, for that matter. Then again, the difference in foliage colour makes this interesting. Love the dark red trees!
Just lovely! I’m trying to create a similar effect with climbing hydrangea over a stone wall. My young garden has quite a ways to go though:)
What is particularly great about this example, is the layering – so inspiring and so well executed — leveraging evergreens and tree marcescence. That is something we should be doing more of, even in more informal spaces (like mine). BTW I think it also useful to note, that many of these plants (same genus, different species) could be worked into our spaces to achieve these goals. For example, the Japanese plum yew can even be grown in the Northeast US Zone 6 – and gold-tipped cultivars like Korean Gold, could be used to bring out the yellow of plants in those spaces.
I love when you go to my home town! The Dandenongs are beautiful, and that garden is glorious. 💝 Thanks for another great video!
Magnificent garden! Thank you for the tour!
How great your content is! Thanks for this one… a subject many of us struggle with..
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I’ve visited Cloudhill several times. Stunning garden.
Stunning garden. One of my favorites ever 😍
Love it
Brilliant! And just in time for the spring planning!
I just love your videos ! I always think how God smiles down on gardeners.
Thank you, a really beautiful garden and great tips on garden structure. Lots of learning . 🌻🌼🌸🌺
Hello Alexandra – I've just tried to find Pennisetum Tall Tales which looked so lovely with the Verbena Bonariensis, but it doesn't seem to exist. Do you know whether it might have been P Fairy Tales?
Excellent video, thankyou! It's been hailing here a lot today, it's a good week to sit indoors plotting garden design ideas!
A jaw-dropping garden. Absolutely fantastic and the great thing is that most of the plants could be grown in my garden. thank you, Alexandra
What a lovely post! Will be going back to this for inspiration!!🥰
So beautiful. Great tour and tips. Thank you.
Love your videos. So informative. One of my favorite videos is of the Moskovitz garden (How to get a Wow Border). I have followed much of Frances’ advice — lots of horse manure from a local farm, propagate plants from seed, plant closely, deadhead often (or at least I try), and not pay too much attention to color schemes. The Moskovitz tips work for me in my garden in Massachusetts.
Great video! Cloudehill Gardens is in Australia, in the state of Victoria. It's located about 1 hrs drive from Melbourne. As a Melbournian I have visited in and it's lovely. So nice to see you back in Australia! We have many amazing gardens in Victoria.