Border Plants

There’s nothing better than perennial plants for creating a vibrant, colourful display of flowers all summer long - and the great thing about perennials is that they bloom again year after year. Whether you’re filling gaps between existing plants in your borders or creating a whole new feature, we’ll help you design, choose and care for your perfect perennials.

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  • Best Plants for Pots | Perennials for Container Gardens Perennial Bedding
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    Best Plants for Pots | Perennials for Container Gardens

    Bring more colour to your patio

    • Hardy perennials suited to container growing
    • Plant in pots on a sunny patio or balcony
    • Blooms from May to October
    • Guaranteed to attract bees and butterflies

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  • Best Ground Cover Plants l A Carpet of Flowers Perennial Bedding
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    Best Ground Cover Plants | A Carpet of Flowers

    Low growing, high impact!

    • Chosen from a range of favourites (eg. sedum)
    • Use to underplant trees or edge paths
    • Flowers from May to October
    • Wave goodbye to annoying weeds

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  • Japanese Lace fern | Polystichum polyblepharum Perennial Bedding
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    Japanese Lace Fern | Polystichum polyblepharum

    Evergreen fern for year-round colour

    • Emerald green fronds that emerge with golden hairs
    • Grow in pots on a shady patio or as part of a woodland border
    • Fully pest and disease resistant
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit

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  • Plants for Butterflies and Bees | Perfect for Pollinators Perennial Bedding
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    Plants for Butterflies and Bees | Perfect for Pollinators

    Pollinator party this way....

    • A variety of bee-friendly blooms (eg. salvia)
    • Use to bulk out your beds and borders
    • Flowers from May to October
    • RHS Plants for Pollinators

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  • Painted Lady Fern | Athyrium Niponicum 'Pictum' Perennial Bedding
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    Painted Lady Fern | Athyrium Niponicum 'Pictum'

    Award winning foliage, flushed with silver

    • Grey-green fronds with a silver and purple shimmer
    • Ideal for a shady patio or woodland border
    • Long lasting, fully hardy foliage
    • RHS Award of Garden Merit

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  • Crested Wood Fern | Cristata The King Perennial Bedding
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    Crested Wood Fern | 'Cristata The King'

    Regal fern, majestic presence

    • Adds interest to shady borders, ponds or woodland gardens
    • Arching fronds with crested tips
    • Rich green
    • Create a sense of enchantment

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  • Herrenhausen Fern | Polystichum Herrenhausen Perennial Bedding
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    Herrenhausen Fern | Polystichum herrenhausen

    Timeless beauty, striking presence

    • Adds interest to shady borders, ponds or woodland gardens
    • Arching fronds with finely toothed leaflets
    • Dark green glossy foliage
    • Dramatic architectural form

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  • Astilbe 'Spotlight' | 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
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    Astilbe 'Spotlight'

    Blush pink for shady borders

    • Densely packed Blush pink flowers
    • Flowers in July and August
    • Equally eye catching in drifts or cottage garden beds
    • Shade and damp loving perennial

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  • Common Polypodium Fern | Polypodium vulgare Perennial Bedding
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    Native Evergreen Fern | Polypodium vulgare

    UK native fern that stays fresh all year round

    • Lush green fronds dotted with distinctive spores
    • Perfect for shady borders and woodland gardens
    • A fully hardy, drought tolerant evergreen
    • Pest and disease proof

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  • Aquilegia 'Spring Magic Blue & White' Perennial Bedding
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    Aquilegia 'Spring Magic Blue & White'

    Enchanting blue and white blooms

    • Blue and white bonnet-shaped flowers with golden yellow stamens
    • Flowers from April right through to July
    • A compact variety suitable for borders or pots
    • RHS Plants for Pollinators

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  • Mediterranean Garden Collection | Drought tolerant plants Perennial Bedding
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    Mediterranean Garden Collection | Drought Tolerant Plants

    Drought? What drought?

    • Add a Tuscan touch with Mediterranean faves
    • Plant in a fully sunny position
    • Flowers from May to October
    • Tolerant of prolonged dry conditions

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  • Gaura 'Gambit Variegata Rose' | 3L Pot Perennial Plants
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    Gaura 'Gambit Variegata Rose'

    A cloud of Candy-pink butterflies

    • Butterfly shaped Candy-pink flowers on upright stems
    • Long flowering season from May to October
    • Plant in the centre of a sunny border
    • Ideal for Cottage Garden or Prairie planting schemes

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  • Sedum 'Rose Carpet' Perennial Bedding
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    Sedum 'Rose Carpet'

    A colourful, low growing succulent

    • Blue green succulent with raspberry pink flowers
    • Flowers from July to September
    • Plant in sunny borders in drifts
    • RHS Plants for Pollinators

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  • Polystichum rigens Perennial Plants
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    Rigid Shield Fern | Polystichum rigens

    Architectural form, rugged beauty

    • Adds interest to shady borders, ponds or woodland gardens
    • Rigid, leathery foliage with overlapping leaflets
    • Bold, dark green fronds
    • Tolerant of drier conditions

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  • Astilbe 'Purple Rain' | 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
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    Astilbe 'Purple Rain'

    Shade-loving Violet spears

    • Fluffy violet flowers on upright stems
    • Flowers from July to August
    • Adds height and colour to borders
    • Perfect for Pollinators

    2 options available

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  • All Year Round Plants | The best hardy perennials Perennial Bedding
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    All Year Round Plants | The Best Hardy Perennials

    As tough as they are ornamental

    • Features hardy showstoppers (eg. geranium)
    • Create a long-lasting border or patio display
    • Flowers from May to October
    • Ensure your borders look great year-round

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  • Autumn Fern | Dryopteris erythrosora Perennial Bedding
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    Autumn Fern | Dryopteris erythrosora

    Captivating seasonal foliage

    • Adds interest to shady borders, ponds or woodland gardens
    • Classic fern form
    • Fronds emerge coppery-red, maturing to deep green
    • Stunning colour transformation

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  • Ajuga 'Black Scallop' Perennial Bedding
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    Ajuga 'Black Scallop'

    Deep, dark glossy groundcover

    • A low growing plant with bright silver-green foliage and deep blue flowers
    • Flowers throughout May and June
    • The ideal groundcover plant for shady borders or in pots
    • RHS Plants for Pollinators

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  • Alpine Wood Fern | Dryopteris Wallichiana 'Jurassic Gold' Perennial Bedding
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    Alpine Wood Fern | Dryopteris Wallichiana 'Jurassic Gold'

    Straight outta Dorset

    • Fronds emerge golden orange and mature to green
    • Show off in patio pots or use to underplant trees
    • Fully hardy and disease resistant
    • Discovered on the Jurassic coast

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  • 30cm Aquilegia 'William Guiness' | 3L Pot Perennial Bedding
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    Aquilegia 'William Guiness'

    Deepest purple summer blooms from leaves of luscious green

    • Deliciously deep plum purple flowers
    • Makes brilliant ground cover for border beds
    • Flowers from May to July
    • Provides rich early summer flowering

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  • Athyrium filix femina Pond Plants
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    Lady Fern | Athyrium filix femina

    An elegant, lacy, native fern

    • Adds interest to shady borders, ponds or woodland gardens
    • Feathery arching fronds
    • Soft green
    • Easy to grow deciduous fern

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  • 9 Red Yellow & Orange Perennial Plants | Flower, Foliage and Height Perennial Bedding
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    Summer Flame Collection | Red, Yellow & Orange Perennial Plants

    Fill your garden with hot hues

    • All you need to create a sunset-toned border
    • Plant in well-drained soil in your beds
    • Flowers from May to October
    • Long-flowering and loved by pollinators

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  • Tassel Fern | Polystichum polyblepharum Perennial Bedding
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    Tassel Fern | Polystichum polyblepharum

    Tassel-like elegance in green

    • Adds interest to shady borders, ponds or woodland gardens
    • Foliage forms a cascade of tassels
    • Lush dark green fronds
    • Tolerant of drier conditions

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  • Early Flowering Perennial Collection Perennial Bedding
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    Early Flowering Perennial Collection

    Why wait for fantastic colour?

    • Includes early-bloomers for springtime colour
    • Likes full sun to partial shade
    • Blooms from April to May
    • Offers brilliant impact earlier in the year

    3 options available

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  • Lace Fern | Dryopteris Linearis Polydactila Perennial Bedding
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    Lace Fern | Dryopteris Linearis Polydactila

    Lace-like texture, stunning form

    • Adds interest to shady borders, ponds or woodland gardens
    • Lacy foliage
    • Vibrant green
    • British native fern, perfect cover for wildlife

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  • Astilbe 'Freya' Perennial Bedding
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    Astilbe 'Freya'

    Plumes of Pink

    • Candy pink feathery flowers
    • Flowering throughout July and August
    • Stunning in pots and containers
    • Ideal for woodland planting schemes

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  • Astilbe 'Ellie' Perennial Bedding
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    Astilbe 'Ellie'

    Plumes of White

    • Candy pink feathery flowers
    • Flowering throughout July and August
    • Stunning in pots and containers
    • Ideal for woodland planting schemes

    2 options available

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Meet Jack

Flowers born in Herefordshire, blooming in your garden

Our bedding plants start life in the rolling Herefordshire hills, where Jack and his team trial over 250 new varieties each year to bring you the best performing and most sustainable plants in the UK. With over forty years of excellence, it’s no surprise that they’ve won the HTA Plant Grower of the Year award two years running.

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How to Make a Flower Bed or Border

How to Make a Flower Bed or Border

A traditional herbaceous border is planted in layers, with taller plants at the back, scaling down in height to the low growing plants at the front. More contemporary schemes tend to use plants of the same height or type for impact. If your bed or border will be viewed from all sides, you can position the taller plants in the middle. Make sure to plant your annuals far enough apart to allow them to spread.

Perfect Plants for Flower Beds and Borders

Perfect Plants for Flower Beds and Borders

For the low growing annual plants, choose Nemesia, Marigolds and Gazanias in coordinating tones or a range of contrasting colours. Our favourite taller varieties for the middle of borders are Petunia, Geranium, Dahlia and Osteospermum - and if you want to add even more height against a fence or wall, take a look at our guide to Tall Perennial Plants. Impatiens and Antirrhinums are perfect choices if you’re planting a block of the same variety.

Plant Care Tips for Flower Beds

Plant Care Tips for Flower Beds

Choose a sunny spot to make your annual border, and make sure all chance of frost is past before planting. Most annuals prefer fertile, well-drained soil, so dig in some compost or manure. Water regularly, feed with a general plant food and remove any dead flowers to encourage new growth.

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Ornamental Colour Collection Pond Plants
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Plants arrived in great condition and very promptly. Well established - much better than the ones I got at my local garden centre.

Monica Spence

| 24 May
Star Jasmine | Trachelospermum jasminoides Climbing Plants
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Yet again this company delivered good healthy plants, exactly as shown in photos, well packaged and within delivery time quoted. Recommend!

Jacqueline Burgess

| 2 Jun
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I continue to be so impressed with Roots. Their customer care, knowledge of their subject: from planting hedges to pruning roses and more, has been a great support.

Judy Lane

| 23 Oct
E 'Black Hamburgh' Indoor Grape Vine Soft Fruit
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The plant arrived looking vigorously healthy, which brings a smile to your face, extremely well protected in its packaging.

Martyn Hill

| 5 Jul
E 'Braeburn Hillwell' Apple Tree Fruit Trees
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As a non-gardener, I found my whole experience brilliant. Great information & advice available on the website, great range of products & prices are brilliant.

John-Paul

| 22 May
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Wonderful plants and great customer service... really surprised to find that the plants are better than those you would get at your local garden centre.

Gavin Wilcock

| 8 Nov

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