The Long Border Garden Guide: Part 1

Stage 1: A Step-by-Step of the current Long Border & an Overview of Future Plans

The Long Border, Mid Summer, 1 year and 2 months after it was first excavated.

Hi everyone and welcome to the Long Border Guide!

Firstly, what is a Long Border? Well, it is a garden room/area common in formal gardens of the UK and Europe and is a long border either one sided or two sided with a path running through the centre as ours is, planted with a mix of perennials, evergreens and bulbs for interest in every season.

Summer 2024

Autumn 2022

Our Long Border is the barrier between us and the road, where the giant old African Boxthorn hedgerow used to be and why anyone taking a nice country drive along on our road could only ever see Moorfield’s chimney stacks peering over the top. Deciding to take it down was a HUGE decision, it has exposed us entirely to the road but it is a highly invasive species so we had to do it and begin the slow process of planting a new hedge that will once again provide us privacy from the road, a Portuguese Laurel hedge which is both hardy and non-invasive in these parts.

This new hedge forms the outer wall of the Long Border and is, or should I say, will be repeated on the other side also, creating a tunnel of green hedging which is planted alongside with a mix of deciduous trees and shrubs, perennials and bulbs. Plant lists provided below.

Please see the Property Overview Map below and then a close up again of the location of the Long Border to give you an understanding of it’s overall location. An illustration is provided further into the document giving more detail on the Long Border itself.