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Long border at a 1930s house in late summer: purple moor grass, pink coneflower, purple sage and verbena along a lawn path, low sunlight from the side

Garden 02 · 2024

Border at a 1930s house

A 380 m² garden with long borders full of grasses that keep going into November.

Area
380 m²
Size
19 × 20 m
Build
5 weeks
Budget, incl. VAT
€ 46.000
Our role
Planting plan and build

What was there

A large back garden with mostly grass and a few old conifers. The owners wanted colour well into autumn, without weeding every week.

Designed garden in low evening light: swaying ornamental grasses and purple sage along a grey natural stone path, an oak pergola with a table and a beech hedge in the background
120Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’sage

What we drew

Two long borders of 32 m² each along a lawn path, filled with grasses and perennials that follow on from each other. In winter the plumes and seed heads stay: then the garden still has shape.

“Two long borders of 32 m² each along a lawn path, filled with grasses and perennials that follow on from each other.”

How we built it

The conifers came out, the soil was loosened and improved with compost. We planted 1,180 perennials, seven per square metre, and mulched the borders with wood chips.

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The drawing

This is the final design, seen from above. The codes in the plant clouds refer to the plant list below.

  1. 1Seating area of clay pavers in herringbone
  2. 2North border with purple moor grass and sage
  3. 3South border with coneflower and autumn moor grass
  4. 4Lawn path
  5. 5Crab apple, existing
  6. 6Hornbeam hedge, 1.80 m

Plant list

NumberNameCommon nameInterest
140Molinia caerulea ‘Moorhexe’purple moor grassAug–Oct
120Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’sageJun–Sep
96Echinacea purpureaconeflowerJul–Sep
64Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firetail’knotweedJul–Oct
80Sesleria autumnalisautumn moor grassSep–Nov
48Aster ‘Little Carlow’asterSep–Oct
60Verbena bonariensispurpletop vervainJul–Oct

Materials

  • PathLawn edged with clay pavers
  • SeatingClay pavers in herringbone
  • Borders64 m², soil improved with compost
  • HedgeHornbeam, 1.80 m tall
Long border at a 1930s house in late summer: purple moor grass, pink coneflower, purple sage and verbena along a lawn path, low sunlight from the side
Narrow town garden seen from above from a balcony: a terrace of sawn grey natural stone under an oak pergola, stepping stones in gravel and borders with ferns and white hydrangea
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Garden designer leaning over a coloured planting plan on an old workbench in a nursery, among pots of perennials and ornamental grasses, hands pointing at the drawing

Shall we startwith a walk round your garden?

A consultation at your home takes an hour and a half and costs €145. Afterwards you have a first sketch and our notes. If you then go for a design, we deduct the amount.

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