How to Landscape With Strawberries

Plant strawberries to create a border in a perennial flower garden. Before they produce berries, strawberry plants produce delicate white flowers. They grow less than 1 foot high, making them ideal as a border plant.

Line a walkway or driveway with a double row of strawberries. Let the runners form and take root, and soon the beds will be a continuous mat of strawberries' serrated triple leaves, which feature delicate white flowers and bright red berries.

Plant wide rows of strawberries between immature fruit trees or other young trees. Saplings recently planted do not even begin to fill or use the space allotted for their mature size. The large expanses of grass between the young trees should be used to grow an edible crop until the trees grow, then the strawberries can be mowed down and the grass replanted. Strawberries planted in this unused space will produce an edible crop and cut down on the amount of mulch materials needed for the unused land or on the area of lawn requiring mowing.

Fill hanging baskets filled with strawberry plants in sunny outdoor living areas instead of baskets of flowers. Or plant strawberries in terracotta strawberry jars. These urn-shaped jars have a series of holes in their walls. Plant strawberries in these holes and in the opening at the top of the jar. The plants will soon grow to nearly cover the jar and will produce a respectable crop of berries. Another benefit of strawberry jars is that you can move them around to follow the sun, because strawberries do best with full sun exposure.