For many people a garden border is a place for flowers while vegetables remain firmly in the veg plot or allotment. But garden designer, grower and social media star Lucy Hutchings, of She Grows Veg fame, has been showing her followers that you can have your border - and eat it.
For she says there are a host of pretty vegetables which can add colour and form to ornamental borders. She said: "The best way to approach edibles within a planting scheme is to stop thinking of them as edibles and approach them as you would any other plants in your border.
"Look at height, colour and texture and vary that through the border,” says the designer, who has 171k followers on Instagram. "You might want some frilly things, spiky things, architectural things, broad-leaved things – and you can achieve all of these textures and looks through edible plants as well.”
