The Border Workshop is learning about New Perennial planting this year. The challenge is to create a border using a very limited palette of mostly perennial or sometimes biennial plants. We are designing a new border for the area in front of the new deck and participants are also designing borders for their own space. At the beginning of the season we promised 100 plants but in fact we’re only recommending around 75. Here they are.
| Common | Genus | Species | Variety/Cultivar | Colour |
| Full Sun | ||||
| Bistort | Persicaria | amplexicaulis | Pink/Red | |
| Yarrow | Achillea | filipendulina | Yellow/Cream | |
| Alium | Alium | spp. | Blue/Purple | |
| Japanese Anenome | Anenome x | hybrida | Pink/White | |
| Flowering Sea Kale | Crambe | cordifolia | White | |
| Michaelmas daisies | Aster | spp. | Blue/Pink/White | |
| Catmint | Calamintha | nepeta | Blue | |
| Cone Flower | Echinacea | purpurea | Purple | |
| Globe Thistle | Echinops | spp. | Blue | |
| Indian physic | Gilenia | trifoliata | White | |
| Helenium | autumnale | Orange/Red | ||
| Macedonian scabious | knautia | macedonica | Crimson | |
| Prairie Gay Feather | liatris | spicata | Pink | |
| Sea Lavender | limonium | latifolium | Blue | |
| Cardinal Flower | Lobelia x speciosa | ‘Vedrariensis’ | Blue | |
| Maltese Cross | Lychnis | chalcedonica | Scarlet | |
| Milky Loosestrife | Lysimachia | ephemerum | White | |
| Bee Balm | Monarda | spp. | Purple/Red | |
| Turkish Sage | Phlomis | russeliana | Blue | |
| Salvia × | superba/sylvestris | |||
| Sanguisorba | spp. | |||
| Hoary Skullcap | Scutellaria | incana | Blue | |
| Milk Parsley | Selinum | wallichianum | White | |
| Saw wort | Serratula | seoanei | Purple/Pink | |
| Betony | Stachys | officinalis | Purple | |
| Devils-bit Scabious | Succisa | pratensis | Blue | |
| Veronicastrum | virginicum | Blue/White | ||
| Gaura | lindheimeri | White | ||
| Toad Flax | Linaria | purpurea | ||
| Evening Primrose | Oenothera | biennis | ||
| Shade | ||||
| Masterwort | Astrantia | major | involucrata | |
| Actaea | rubra | |||
| Japanese Anenome | Anenome x | hybrida | Pink/White | |
| Astilbe | spp | |||
| Cimifuga | japonica | |||
| Bishop’s Hat | Epimedium | pinnatum | pale yellow | |
| Hemp Agrimony | Eupatorium | purpureum | Maculatum | |
| Spurge | Euphorbia | polychroma | ||
| Cranesbill | Geranium | spp. | white/blue/pink | |
| Heleborus | orientalis | |||
| Coral flower | Heuchera | micrantha | white | |
| Iris | sibirica | |||
| Lathrus | vernus | Purple | ||
| Loosestrife | Lythrum | salicaria | Pink red | |
| Mertensia | sibirica | Blue | ||
| Phlox | paniculata | Blue | ||
| Soloman’s Seal | Polygonatum | odoratum | White | |
| Rosgersia | spp | |||
| Burnet | Sabguisorba | spp | ||
| Ice Plant, Sedum | Hylotelephium | spectabile | Pink/Red | |
| Telima | grandiflora | rubra | Red green white | |
| Honesty | Lunaria | redivia | ||
| Lady’s Mantle | Alchemila | mollis | yellow | |
| Meadow rue | Thalictrum | aquilegiifolium | pink | |
| Spurge | Euphorbia | caracias | ||
| Foxglove | Digitalis | ferruginea | ||
| Ferns/Shade | ||||
| Dropteris | spp | |||
| Shuttlecock fern | Matteuccia | struthiopteris | ||
| Shield fern | Polysticheum | setiferum | ||
| Seeding perennials and bienniels | ||||
| Lady’s Mantle | Alchemilla | mollis | yellow | |
| Euphorbia | cyparissias | yellow | ||
| Cranesbill | Geraneum | phaeum | dark red | |
| Giant Hyssop | Agastache | foeniculum | ||
| Valerian | Centranthus | ruber | red | |
| Xiper’s bugloass | Echium | vulgare | blue | |
| Toadflax | Linaria | purpurea | pink/blue | |
| Catmint | Nepeta | musinii | blue | |
| Verbina | boniarensis | purple | ||
| Grasses | ||||
| hair grass | Deschampsia | cespitosa | ||
| Featherb grass | Stipa | turkestanica | ||
| Reed | Calamagrostis | brachitrica | ||