Border Punch
Posted on Sunday, October 12th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Make the most of your spring bulb display by using some of these planting tips.
Make your bulbs look like they just popped up by planting them in random clusters instead of in orderly rows. As a rule of thumb, plant larger bulbs, such as tulips or daffodils in groups of five to 15 bulbs. Smaller bulbs, such grape hyacinth or crocus stand out best in groups of 15 to 25.
Plan your color combination’s to make the most of your display. Combine two-tone colored tulips with solid colored varieties. For instance, ‘Palace Purple” coralbells look striking up against the burgundy ‘Uncle Tom” tulip. Pair up white daffodils (also referred to as the orchid narcissus), with pink or rose colored ‘Christmas Marvel’ tulips.
Don’t ignore shady areas of the garden. Brighten them up with paperwhite narcissus combined with ‘Spring Green’ tulips. Intermingle some low growing vinca among your bulbs. Or, use a combination of pastel colored tulips with small forget-me-nots.
Plant a background border using white bleeding hearts and plant red and white tulips in the foreground.
Create a spring container or basket filled with pink glory-of-the-snow mixed with pansies. If you used a basket, line it first with plastic inserted with drainage holes. Take a large pot and fill with tulips, pansies and toadflax in varying shades of pink and white. Use the same color combination in other areas of the garden to create a flow.
When you combine your colors, use different types of tulips with similar colors. That way you maintain the same theme throughout varying blooming times.
Hostas make great fillers among spring bulbs. For a colorful display, use purple ‘Barcelona’ tulips combined with ‘Spring Green’ tulips, yellow daffodils, purple hyacinths, and allium.
Create a flow of color using two-tone pink and white tulips combined with solid purple varieties. When planting against rock or solid colored border, limit your color scheme to two or three colors so as not to take away from your background.
You’ve heard of wildflower meadows, now try planting a bulb meadow. Simply intersperse spring and summer flowering bulbs in amongst your wildflowers and watch them bloom year after year.
Plant a window box with bright daffodils and small pansies in coordinating shades. Change it up for the seasons to have a continuous floral display. Fill a number of terracotta pots with brightly colored spring bulbs and group at varying heights for a striking presentation.
Give darker blooms added punch by planting them in front of a light background.
There are no hard fast deer and rabbit resistant bulbs, but these varieties seem to attract them the least: daffodils, crown imperial, siberian squill, allium, fritillaria, grape hyacinth, bluebells, dog-tooth violet, checkered lily, glory-of-the-snow, winter aconite, and snowdrop.
For a lawn display, plant crocuses throughout your yard and watch the the pretty colored blooms poke through the snow in early spring. Once the blooms are finished and the leaves die off, simply mow when you cut your lawn.
How to Corner using your favorite Fiskars Border Punches
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Fiskars Fiskars 1/4 Inch Hand Punch, Circle $3.99 Comfortable grip handle and easy squeeze mechanism makes crafting with Fiskars hand punches fun & easy. Great for scrapbooks paper crafts stationery gift bags and making confetti. Make perfect shapes every time. Use with cardstock tissue craft ribbon construction paper gift wrap and fun foam…. |
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Fiskars Hand Punch, Rectangle $4.19 Comfortable grip handle and easy squeeze mechanism makes crafting with Fiskars hand punches fun & easy. Great for scrapbooks paper crafts stationery gift bags and making confetti. Make perfect shapes every time. Use with cardstock tissue craft ribbon construction paper gift wrap and fun foam…. |
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Martha Stewart Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page Combo, Deco Shells $17.42 With these creative sets designed by Martha Stewart, you can now have a continuous pattern around any sized paper or cardstock. Each set includes 1 border punch and 1 coordinating corner punch. Available in a variety of designs, each sold separately. … |
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BORDER PUNCH DISNEY PRINCESS $9.99 SuppliesNet item (PSBP005)… |
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HEART BORDER PUNCH $12.00 SuppliesNet item (23407097)… |
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Tropical Punch Wall Border $15.99 Wall border measures 6.75″ x 5 yards and coordinates with Tropical Punch bedding collection…. |
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Border Paper Punch Set $12.94 Give your creativity some punch with this fantastic Melissa & Doug Border Paper Punch Set! Each neatly organized storage case contains a wide assortment of border punch cartridges and a convenient hand-held punch dispenser, which allows you to design beautiful stationery, scrapbooks and keepsakes for years to come! Comes with 8 designs…. |
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Craft Punch border Chili Peppers Heavy Duty Craft Punch Border Punch Chili Peppers Design Great for Scrap booking – Cardmaking- Favors-Theme Parties-Placecards Make colorful confetti . Create distinctive borders with the border punches There are endless uses with Marvy craft punches. They are strong, durable and stay sharp for the life of the punch…. |
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50 More Crocheted Afghan Borders (Leisure Arts #4531) $6.37 50 More Afghan Borders to Crochet. Like the frosting on the cupcake or the tiara on the bride a beautiful border is the finishing touch for a lovingly created afghan whether knitted or crocheted. Borders can be elegant or whimsical can match or contrast with the afghan and can life even the simplest afghan from ordinary into the very special category. If you usually depend upon fringe as an accent… |
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Paper Pizazz, Tops & Bottoms Punch-outs: 36 Pre-matted Borders for Memory Albums & More $2.25 36 acid free, lignin free pre-matted borders. Perfect for memory albums, scrapbooks, rubber stamping, cards, invitations, gift bags. “Sunny days”, It’s a Boy/Girl” etc… |
