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PLANTING DESIGN 101

Let's make your garden beautiful and fill it with plants.

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Pollyanna Wilkinson
Jan 25, 2026
∙ Paid

WELL THIS IS EXCITING. 2026 is the year we make your borders, aka your flower beds, (but I am going to call them borders) look amazing. And we’re going to do this month by month to make sure they are truly seasonal, because the best borders don’t just look good in the summer (this is the easy bit) they look good pretty much all year round.

What you will need (it’s all a bit back to school)

  • A tape measure

  • A scale ruler

  • A circle template/stencil

  • Graph paper

  • Tracing paper

  • Boundless enthusiasm

  • A soil ph test kit

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