The English herbaceous border has to be one of the most recognised garden elements in our modern history. Being a late Victorian idea, its roots may actually go as far back as Tudor kitchen gardens in England. We have to thank the industrial revolution for the contrasts of ideas that were coming about by people such as Pre-Raphaelite artists, William Morris among them, and Gertrude Jekyll who wildly influenced Sir Edwin Lutyens to go into architecture at a young age. Recall that at this time Landscape Architecture was in its infancy as a practice and Landscape Gardeners, as they were called, such as Jekyll would work hand in hand with architects to design a house and garden together, not a garden as a second thought. In 1921 Jekyll published “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden” which influenced many mixed flower borders and still does. “Bright Young Things” Lady Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West designed Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent UK in the same breath as Beatrix Ferrand, an American and the niece of Edith Wharton, was designing Dartington Hall, Devon. Ferrand was very influential in the United States, influencing today's Landscape Architects. The herbaceous border’s core idea of variations has stayed the same, and it is up to the Landscape Gardener to sort out the particulars.