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4 beautiful border ideas

BORDER BLENDS

Alliums are a wonderful addition to borders great or small, starting in mid for the front, soon followed by lanky ‘Purple Sensation’ and ‘Mount Everest’. By late spring, two of the biggest hitters are opening, violet-purple ‘Gladiator’ and ‘Globemaster’, while slotting in neatly at their feet is large-headed, rosy-violet also known as the ‘Star of Persia’, owing to its Iranian origins.

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