Border Edit

Pep up fading borders with some late summer additions: Perennial Dahlias, Heleniums, Crocosmia, Echinacea and Asters will enliven any scheme and unlike annual bedding plants, they will go on performing year after year. Add some foliage specimens like Cotinus coggygria, evergreen Euphorbias and shimmering grasses for a border that will keep on singing right through the autumn and, if you add in plants with berries and bark, through the winter too...