Border
The border of is called narrow planting in the form of a strip of low or miniature ornamental plants.
Borders are used for framing flower beds, flowers, for decorating alleys, paths of flower groups, lawns and lawns. Very often, to finish a competition or a complex group, you need a curb, and in this case it should be different in color from the basic tone of the flower arrangement. The border gives any flower garden a finish, helps to optimally fit into the overall composition of the site. The purpose of the curb is to emphasize the completeness of this or that type of floral design, so it should not stand out and be too pretentious. The border should be characterized by strictness and cleanliness of the lines, as for the color bordering solution, then there are two possible options: a contrasting border that differs color from the main one on the composition and thereby emphasizes its completeness, and the border tone-to-tone blending with the colora gamut of composition and creating its visual boundary only texture. To create a curb, low-growing plants that grow evenly, with a dense shrub, leaf-decorative or long-flowering, resistant to unfavorableenvironmental conditions;various kinds of funkia( hosts), saxifrage, daisies, pansies, undersized marigolds.
Borders can be made in spring, summer and permanent. For spring flowering come pansies, daisies, forget-me-nots. For summer - all low summers: balsam, verbena, gazaniya, dimorfoteka, eshsholtsiya. More complex borders can be of two or three kinds.
Borders can be single-row, double-row or multi-row. According to their purpose and the nature of the device, they differ from other types of floral design. Borders are the most widely used in all types of floral design. Particularly good contrast combinations: for example, a group of red flowers with a silver border, the flowers in lilac tones with a yellow border, an array of plants with blue flowers with a border in orange tones.
Fine plants for bordering are plants with low growth and density of the bush. They should have a long period of flowering or oblivion. In addition to decorative qualities that provide low, dense, thick, even and solid plantations, it is important that plants planted in curbs are resistant to various unfavorable conditions.