9 Perennial Gems for Front of Garden Border | 6 for Sun & 3 for Shade 

We hope you enjoy the video Full plant list in order with zone information is in the description :)

Love them all especially the shade ones. So appreciate the Latin names

I’ve never seen such a tiny centaurea, it’s gorgeous 😍 Love the Tiarella too and I have a woodland border with a gap in it which would be perfect for it. I think I may be visiting your website very soon 😊

I love your presentations. You include so much information. I haven't missed a single video since I first joined this passed winter. As I live in the PNW, USA much of what you speak of works in my area. Thank you!

Wonderful videos-so informative. Your range of knowledge is extraordinary. I feel as though each plant you bring forward is saying,"This person really understands me!"

Good morning here in Zone 5a ! Great very useful info.again.Kudos to you,Rosie,for wonderful & understandable plant science. Happy Spring 🌷

I love how these plant names just roll off your tongue 😅. It’s such a wonderful skill 🤩🎊🥰

I discovered your channel recently and have been working my way through all of your videos! I cannot tell you how amazing it is to find a garden channel by someone in the UK who clearly knows what they are talking about, keeps their videos clear, informative, helpful but also simple and to the point. I really, really appreciate you putting this content out there - please keep it coming, and please don't turn into one of those channels who are just full of ads/sponsers and full of waffle because you are brilliant as you are and just what we need! I only wish I'd found you earlier. Thanks again, I've subscribed so hopefully won't miss any future videos!

Lovely video. A shade is a color plus black. A tint is a color plus white. ❤

So lovely and refreshing to listen to Latin names and botanical descriptive terms. To this excellent list I’d add genus Lewisia.

Beautiful plants. Thank you! ❤

Interesting plants. I knew only two, so informative although they may not work for me,

Thanks for this video, I always get stuck for ideas and something a little different at the front of the boarder. I’m going to visit your website now. 😃

Brilliant, thank you

I just adore your channel

Just discovered your channel and have subscribed - very straightforward and informative. Thank you

Another excellent video. Thank you Rosy. Your videos are always full of content and useful information to help with plant choice. Keep them coming 😀

Thank you for this video Rosy, I have been on the look out for some lovely frothy front of dry stony border plants. So now I’ve got some fantastic little plants for the spot .

Wonderful, one of your best. Thank you!

Rosy, I have just discovered your channel. You are a joy to listen to, with wonderful knowledge . Thank you.

thank you Rosie 🙂

Thank you - so useful.

All centaureas are great. The classic centaurea montana is so easy to grow from seed, then you can divide it and it reseeds itself too without becoming invasive. It handles drought, coz it goes dormant in the summer (a bit like papaver orientale), then grow back in autumn. Other centaureas will keep their foliage in summer. One really nice perennial for the border that no one is growing is Lysimachia Ephemerum. It's a protected lysimachia from the Pyrenees and other parts of Spain, and although it's from wet areas, it will do fine in normal clay soil, it'll just be small, which is ideal for the front of a border. The flowers are upright, unlike others lysimachias where they bend, and it's also not too hard to grow it from seed. Otherwise yeah, I love aquilegia, potentilla (nepalensis), veronica (especially veronica teucrium), or eryngium (eryngium planum is super easy to grow from seeds). Iberis sempervirens (not "vivens", it's an r) I don't like. It just doesn't do well in my garden... It loses leaves, stems, year after year, and looks awful instead of more bushy. I just don't know why, I have alkaline clay soil. Maybe it doesn't like wet soils in winter. Iberis is totally absent from the reference book "Dream plants for the natural garden" by Piet Oudolf, and maybe that's why ? Coz he tried it and it doesn't do well?

Are these suitable for the US ?

❤❤excellent..??which would work in USA zone 6??

I wonder is there a dwarf white centaurea?

The sound was less good quality on this one. Thanks for the content though.

Too much talking. Name of plant needs to be left on screen longer.