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Fast Growing Summer Border
P. Allen Smith shows you how to transform a bare patch of earth into a brilliant border—in just one season.
By P. Allen Smith


Blue border
photography: Jane Colclasure
Blue hues: Purples, from lavender to plum, bring a sense of relaxed serenity to the garden.


Cool Blues

Plants shown here
Taller background plants
Mexican sage
Salvia 'Indigo Spires'
Miscanthus 'Morning Light'
Coleus 'Molten Lava'
Shiso

Medium height plants
Dwarf fountain grass
Coleus 'Swiss Sunshine'
Artemisia 'Powis Castle'
Gomphrena
Eupatorium (Snakeroot)

Shorter forground plants
Aster hyb.
Ornamental kale
Chrysanthemum sp.
Lamb's ear
Dianthus
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