Stop Failing at Garden Design: Avoid this Flower Bed Mistake!

[@Gardenninja]

Here's a sample of the plant list to help you if you want to recreate this look! Salvia armistad Salvia azurea Thalictrum ‘Black stockings’ Campanula lactiflora ‘Pritchards variety’ Eryngiums (mixed - Blue hobbit, x tripartite, Mrs Willmots ghost) Achillea ‘credo’ Echinops Agastache Perovskia Veronica spicata Veronica spicata ‘Romily purple’ Artemisia (Mugwort) Pinus templehof Corokia Miscanthus ‘Morning light’ Helichtotrichon (Blue Oat Grass) Sanguisorba ‘Tanna’ Gallium odoratum Geranium ‘Johnsons Blue’

[@jenmason40]

Thank you 😊

[@rmedwards8312]

A thoroughly brilliant masterclass on "how to"👏🏼the planting combinations look great now but will look the nuts when it's established,love how you've borrowed the landscape to weave the eye through,as you say,it's also looks much bigger because of it,Percy was trying to steal the limelight a bit😆gotta love 'em.Great work Lee🙌🏼

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks Roy! Yeah that part of the lawn was crying out for something and I get so many questions about ‘how can I make this flower bed look better’ and it’s nearly always the size that’s the problem not the contents. So thought I’d do a master class in my own garden hehe. Percy’s thanks fully calming down a bit now. Managed to train the dog instinct out of him! Phew!!! Hope your gardens looking fab in this late summer weather. It’s defo a day for downing tools and cracking open the cold drinks! 🍺 🍻🥷🌿😉🤘🪴

[@rmedwards8312]

@Gardenninja yeah it's a rare dry sunny day,lots to catchup on,maybe those seaside hats to hold the beer while I garden 😂

[@lynnsmith7371]

Another brilliant video Lee. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge.

[@Gardenninja]

You’re welcome Lynn. I’m glad you’re enjoying my content. Do check out my website www.gardenninja.co.uk if you haven’t already! 🌿🥷🤘

[@pineconedefense1280]

Thank you! Perfect timing as we'll be starting a very long border project in the fall and are currently trying to wrap our heads around it.

[@Gardenninja]

Perfect! Well now you know. Go bigger 1.5m min will get you a really impactful border and you can play around with the placement far more than skinny or wobbly borders. It just give you play room and to better group plants more naturally than formally. 🥷🌿🤘 Do Post some pics on my forum to keep the Ninjas updated. www.gardenninja.co.uk/forum/ Happy Gardening! Lee

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Always loved your garden design ideas Lee. They are always dynamic and vibrant! Thanks for sharing your tips😎😎

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks AJ. It’s been a while since I’ve done some vids so wanted to come back with a bang. Lessons for all experiences of gardener! 🥷🌿🤘 Do let me know if you have ideas for things you struggle with and if I’ve got experience on it I’ll create a guide for you! Lee

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

@@Gardenninja thank you Lee! I am dragging my feet putting up my greenhouse, particularly at getting the timbered base as leveled as possible.

[@suzannebramble6564]

Thanks Lee - I appreciate your generosity in sharing your knowledge. Lovely to see the dogs helping! I have a small, narrow garden so have had to forgo the lawn to get generous (ish) borders and space for lots of containers!

[@Gardenninja]

Fabulous to hear of your lawn sacrifice for the brilliant big border. Bet you’re loving the end result. People get too caught up with having a lawn (which most people barely use) where as juicy deep borders bring the wildlife and wow factor to a garden! Thanks for commenting and being one of the design Ninjas! 🥷🌿😉🤘🪴

[@donaldauguston9740]

I have been working on a long border that is roughly 15 feet deep in some places. After 18 years I've finally figured it out with your help. Thank you so much. DA

[@Gardenninja]

Hey Donald! Fantastic to hear. Sometimes all you need is a little nudge in the right direction or a couple of new perspectives. Glad to help! Keep up the excellent gardening. Lee 🥷🌿🤘

[@BobbinAbout]

Great, informative video. I laid a small lawn last year that’s failed badly so I’m going to try a large border.😊

[@Gardenninja]

Hi Bobbing! Fantastic news (not about your lawn) but the fact it’s lead you to a larger border. Far better for wildlife and to create a more immersive garden. There’s hundreds of video guides on my channel and loads of blog guides on my website www.gardenninja.co.uk See you there! Lee 🥷🌿🤘

[@Jenny-xb9zm]

Thanks for this ninga I just gained 4 square meters after taking down my round house and didn't have a clue what to do this summer with the extra growing area, your chose of plants are great but I'm gonna put 3 blowsey dahlias and wing it with the comtempery planting.

[@Gardenninja]

Fantastic to hear!! The bigger the better with flower beds. Do let me know how you get on. You can upload pictures to the Garden Ninja forum. www.gardenninja.co.uk/forum/ 🌿🥷🤘

[@Jenny-xb9zm]

@@Gardenninja thanks Lee will take some pics that's another good idea👍

[@tracyquayle8977]

Is it possible to get border jealously 😂. Loving the way it looks so natural. I've actually made this mistake of skinny borders but my excuse is my garden is 4m wide. Totally agree skinny borders you end up with rows of plants. Still learning, still loving having a go and still enjoying all the tips I can get. Thanks for another fab video 😊

[@Gardenninja]

You’re welcome Tracy. One of my other top tips is to have an asymmetrical border. So one big border down one side of a skinny 4m garden. Then grow some vertical plants on the other side for balance! 🥷🌿👌🔥

[@joannewilliams5589]

Brilliant video. I’m just doing my new garden and this is very useful. . Xxxx

[@Gardenninja]

Hi Joanne. Glad my content is helpful! Make sure you check out my blog with hundreds of free gardening guides!! www.gardenninja.co.uk/ 🥷🌿🤘

[@janettecoles967]

Fabulous flower border, lots of great advice, thanks for sharing 😍

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks so much. Glad it’s been helpful! More gardening guides to come soon!! 🥷🌿🤘

[@sarahharbert8944]

Lee it looks absolutely beautiful. I'm tempted to do this now 😊

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks Sarah! Do it! You won’t be disappointed. You can even extend existing borders too!!! 🥷🌿🥰💪

[@jenmason40]

Found your video accidentally -a happy accident as I've been wanting to add another flower bed by my driveway. Excellent tips & you're so thorough. Great chat about shrubs, people don't use them often enough. Cheers from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 Will check out your videos. Skinny borders 😂

[@Gardenninja]

Hello Canada! Great to hear from you and glad my guides thorough and helpful. Yes! People fear shrubs. Think of them as back of the border but they are not!! 🥷🌿🤘 thanks for joining us new Ninja! Make sure you check out my hundreds of other KZbin and blog guides. www.gardenninja.co.Uk 🥷🌿

[@christina3056]

Brilliant transformation, 😊x

[@Gardenninja]

Thank you! 😊

[@amydelgado5281]

Brilliant video! 😊 Many thanks

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks Amy! Glad you like it. Pass on the knowledge if you see friends about to make the skinny border mistakes!!! 😉🥷🌿

[@michaeljonesdougherty.209]

Lee the gardens look great and a really great choice of plants. my flower beds are curved and wide I have used the same plants throughout or some I've done around the gardens desisted to become volunteer gardener took root I let it 🐝 😊 In other places.

[@Gardenninja]

Said like a true Ninja gardener pro!! 🌿🥷🤘🥰 Keep up the excellent work Ninja

[@Anabee399]

Lovely Genius. 💐🙏

[@Gardenninja]

Awww thanks so much. It makes it worth while when I hear such great feedback as I love putting all of my passion and experience into these gardening guides. 🥷🌿👌

[@Anabee399]

@@Gardenninja Well done; your work isn't in vain. God has blessed the results of your hands. As a new gardener, I am clueless and fear insects, but I enjoy the gratification of gardening effects. I bought a mature Dynamite Crape Myrtle that grows 15-20 feet, much taller than I need, but I couldn't find a dwarf or semi-dwarf. Is pruning it to the desired size yearly advisable or not? 🤔

[@hoppyb6113]

Hi Lee. Enjoying your garden tips especially about bulbs. I have a rhubarb in a pot which has lived there for about four years. I would like to plant it in the garden. Can you give me tips on positioning and when to plant . Thank

[@Gardenninja]

Hi Hoppy. Thanks for getting in touch! Rhubarb will tolerate most positions. Even heavy clay soil. It’s hard to give advice on your exact garden but if you want a full garden revision of what to go where do feel free to book me for an hour long online consultation! 🌿🥷🪴👉www.gardenninja.co.uk/garden-advice/

[@mahmudachowdhury9563]

Hiya! We made the skinny border mistake- we thought we were correct with 1m, but I think that’s a minimum for a hedge or something, so we got confused. But have now covered the grass a further meter in front, ready to dig over come Spring- it instantly looks way better, looking forward to filling it with plants! On that note, it’s a deep shade border, any plant recommendations? 😄 Thanks as always for the fab tips and advice!

[@Gardenninja]

Hi Mahmuda. Great to hear from you and the benefits of the deeper border! You won’t regret it. Bet you can’t wait for spring. Ooh shady plants. Take a peak here! www.gardenninja.co.uk/top-10-shade-loving-plants-for-difficult-borders/ 🥷🌿🤘

[@gillhawkins9846]

Great looking border Lee. Would it be possible to list all the plants you used as I’m struggling to identify them all. Thanks

[@Gardenninja]

Yes let me pop them into the comments I’ll pin it at the top. 🥷🌿👌

[@Gardenninja]

Salvia armistad Salvia azurea Thalictrum ‘Black stockings’ Campanula lactiflora ‘Pritchards variety’ Eryngiums (mixed - blue hobbit, x tripartite, Mrs will mots ghost etc) Achillea ‘credo’ or yellow / terracotta Echinops Agastache Perovskia Veronica spicata Veronica spicata ‘Romily purple’ Artemisia (Mugwort) Pinus templehof Corokia Miscanthus ‘Morning light’ Helichtotrichon (Blue Oat Grass) Sanguisorba ‘tanna’ Gallium odoratum Geranium ‘Johnsons Blue’

[@hoppyb6113]

Hi Lee. Need your help once again. One of my grandsons bought me a pot mum this year for Mother’s Day. It’s been doing really well, it grew so much that I had to put it outside in a larger pot. Still doing well but I was wondering what do I do with it over winter? Thank you

[@Gardenninja]

Hi Hoppy. Do you know what is in the pot? What’s flowers or shrubs. Maybe use the forum here so I can advise further. www.gardenninja.co.uk/forum/ 🥷🌿🤘

[@hoppyb6113]

@@Gardenninja hi Lee. I’m feeling a bit confused at the moment. You’ve replied to my query about my pot chrysanthemum…and asked me what’s in the pot. It’s the pot chrysanthemum my grandson bought me. I repotted it earlier this year into a larger pot. Am I missing something?

[@Gardenninja]

@hoppyb6113 hi I thought your original comment had a typo! If it’s a Chrysanthemum (ie mum as some in the states call them) its perennial so will come back after the winter. But you probably want to get it in the ground to give it the best chance. Get it in before the Autumn/ fall and it should be fine! 🥷🌿👌

[@tiffcat1100]

❤🌞💜

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks Tiffcat. Glad you’re enjoying my gardening content! 🥷🌿🤘

[@keepgoing1973]

This is a woman right?

[@Gardenninja]

Why would it matter?

[@keepgoing1973]

​@@GardenninjaI don't know why you people like to sing "I am what I am" when clearly YOU'RE NOT. If you want to be who you are, then stick to how and what you were born.

[@Gardenninja]

@@keepgoing1973 I don’t know why you’re so arsed about whether I’m a man or woman? Male or female. Is everything ok? You seem kinda angsty? May be go speak to someone professionally. Get it off your chest with someone who can help you rather than on KZbin gardening video guides? Best wishes. Lee 🥷🌿