How to Create Colorful Flower Borders Learn how Heather Thomas of Cape Cottage Garden keeps her flower borders colorful from spring through fall! Tour Heather Thomas’ colorful flower borders in New Jersey
A couple years after her family moved into their New Jersey home, Heather Thomas was anxious to get a garden started. She dreamed of transforming the sideyard previously dedicated to a kids’ play space into a garden destination where perennial borders remained colorful from spring through fall. Today that dream has become reality. Read about how she achieved the transformation of Cape Cottage Garden here and watch our interview with Heather in our Talk & Tour video above!
Getting the garden startedWhen they removed a tree growing too close to the house, this spot near the kitchen window was the perfect place for the future garden’s entrance. Heather installed an arbor and began digging up the Japanese pachysandra (Pachysandra terminalis) that had surrounded the tree. To ensure that the tenacious ground cover didn’t repopulate the garden later, Heather left the area fallow for a few weeks so she could easily catch new sprouts as they appeared. A month later she brought in the first plants: peonies (Paeonia lactiflora), daylilies (Hemerocallis hybrids) and roses (Rosa hybrids).
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To prepare a backdrop hedge for the planned flower borders in the sideyard, Heather augmented the original three forsythia (Forsythia x intermedia) shrubs with several more dug up from other spots on the property. Then she could get to the fun part: The curving
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