Landscape Designing

LANDSCAPE DESIGNING FRMT 325 Cr. Hr. 3(1+2)

Lesson 10:Garden Features

Herbaceous border

• The herbaceous border is an informal arrangement of annuals or biennials and perennials or a combination of both, know as the mixed border.
• The herbaceous border can be placed either in front of a hedge and against a wall or along the paths.
• This is a characteristic feature of the English garden, containing hardy perennial herbaceous plants.
• Bulbous plants and annuals are commonly grown in the herbaceous border.


• Herbaceous border needs a good depth of soil and many situations.
• The border may be placed against a wall, a fence, shrubs, a hedge, to form double border (one behind another) divided by a grass path.
• A border may be put to mark a division between one part of the garden and another.
• It is always desirable to have a living background such as a hedge or a shrub.
• Care must be taken to see that the roots of shrubs or hedges do not interfere with the border plants.
• Therefore, shrubs or hedges having limited root-spread should be preferred.
• If a formal design is desired, the border should have curved margins