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- To make life easy, cut out different sized paper triangles and sketch different plant shapes on them: upright, spiky, domed, frothy, and so on
- Start to arrange them on a plan of the border
- You鈥檒l begin to see which shapes work well next to one another
- Do the bed bit by bit
- Triangles and pyramids work best for me
- Make different sized triangles: large ones for upright tree shapes, bushy shrubs and spreading perennials; smaller ones for perennials, bulbs and bedding
- Then it鈥檚 a matter of putting the triangles together until the whole border is filled in
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Here鈥檚 a final tip. To avoid a spotty looking bed, plant perennials of the same species in groups of three or five. This number plus a small shrub or two will cover an area of about 1 sq m (1.2 sq yds).
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In the next module I'll tell you how to make your soil more plant friendly, so you're ready to go out and buy those plants - but how do you tell the good from the bad?
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