Add wow-worthy border plants and flowers to liven up your landscape.
Find the plant that best suits your space from these edging plant options.
Creeping Thyme (Thymus spp.)
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Creeping thyme has a low growth profile that spreads beautifully for ground cover in your garden.
The large leaves add great texture to the borders of the landscape beds."
It’s a low-growing vine that produces blue, purple, or white flowers throughout the spring and summer.
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you could grow them as perennials in zones 9 to 11, or as annuals elsewhere.
Hellebores (Helleborus spp.)
They’re also incredibly low maintenance, requiring just regular moisture and occasional cleanup.
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Strawberry plants make an ideal edging plant for an edible gardenor even a flower garden.
While the white flowers are most common, you might also find them in shades of pink as well.
Impatiens (Impatiens spp.)
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These pretty, long-lasting flowers add a touch of brightness to shady spots in your garden border.
Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
This spring-blossoming native plant produces pretty blue blooms in spring.
Plant them in the shady spots of your bordersthey’ll thrive under a tree, for instance.
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Marigolds (Tagetes spp.)
(Just verify you deadhead the plants regularly to keep the blooms coming.)
Look for more petite varieties like Dreamland or Thumbelina that are the perfect size for your garden borders.
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While it can produce tiny blue blooms, it’s the showstopping foliage that makes this a must-plant.
Catmint (Nepeta spp.)
Petunias (Petunia spp.)
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These uber-popular, trumpet-shaped flowers make an ideal and versatile edging plant for your flower garden.
It comes in an array of colors, and blooms all summer long.
(Just deadhead regularly to keep the flowers coming.)
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Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)
Alyssum has a particularly apropos common nameblanket flower.
Lavender (Lavendula spp.)
For your sunniest borders, this perennial favorite produces fragrant blue-purple blooms all summer long.
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Lavender prefers dry soil and is drought tolerant once it’s established.
Daylily (Hemerocallis spp.)
Dahlias (Dahlia spp.)
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Thesesun-loving and bold bloomsmake lovely edging plants.
(They’re perennial in the hottest parts of the country, and annual elsewhere.)
They’ll add bright, bold color from the summer into the fall.
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They’re perfect placed under a tree, as they generally grew under them in forests.
You’ll see tiny white flowers on it in the spring.
Its tiny blossoms appear from spring into fall, and come in an array of colors.
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These plants features velvety, silver-hued leaves and purple flowers in the spring ad summer.
Moss roses are perfect to brighten up arid areas as they’re extremely drought tolerant.
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