The personal plot is an expanse for a novice florist. In order to diversify your landscape, you do not need to hire professional gardeners. It is quite possible to cope on your own. The most popular option for how to ennoble the landscape is to lay out flower beds. Experienced gardeners it is recommended to plant perennials so that flowers will delight you for more than one season. You will learn how to properly lay out flower beds, what flowers and patterns to use from the article, and colorful photos easily visualize any option.
Types of flower beds
What are flower beds? These are plots that combine decorative deciduous, flowering, herbaceous and shrubby plantings. They also include garden paths and architectural buildings. The sizes of flower beds are very diverse - from small to huge. A proportional relationship between plants and the forms surrounding them is also distinguished.
Attention! The "golden proportion" is an ideal ratio in which the first number should be greater than the second, and their sum is equal to the third.
There is a classification of flower beds depending on their types:
- Modular. Combination of plants with garden tiles and small architectural forms(fountains, flowerpots, etc.).
- Mixborders. Combination different colors in one composition. They are usually located along the house, paved path or hedge in the form of an oblong strip.
Mixborder
- Tapeworms. Types of flower beds, which are divided according to the same principle: color shades, height, foliage shape, etc.
- Rabatki. Narrow plantings of flowers with predominantly one tone. Or designed in the form of a geometric ornament. Often, rabatki are part of a perennial flower bed.
- Curbs. Strips from small plants. Used as decoration individual elements flower garden of perennials.
- Rockeries. Combination of the living and the dead. Namely, plants and stones. Another name for rockeries is stone gardens.
- Rock gardens. Flower gardens that combine alpine plants growing on a small hill.
Creating a diagram of perennials for beginners
A beautiful and well-groomed flower garden is the dream of many gardeners. But before you start creating it, you need to carefully study and choose the appropriate scheme. You can do this yourself, but it is much easier to use ready-made visual diagrams. Time-tested perennial projects are sure to please you.
Scheme number 1: a simple version of long-term flowering
An interesting composition made up of unpretentious perennial plants... Her distinctive feature- flowering duration.
- Paniculate phlox of pink hue. The ideal time for planting is early fall or spring. This plant thrives in sandy and drained soils. Flowering continues from mid-summer until autumn.
- Delicate pink astilbe. Bloom different types usually lasts from late June to August. Astilba loves regular fertilization and periodic loosening of the soil.
- Daylily purple with a silvery shade. Planting is carried out in the spring in the soil, carefully fertilized and drained. The plant prefers loam with acidity ranging from 6 to 6.5 pH.
An example of the design of a flower bed of perennials
- Heuchera with lavender foliage. Grows in non-stagnant soils. Flowering occurs from May to July.
- Geranium. Bloom from July to autumn. During the flowering period, the bushes of the plant acquire lush forms. It blooms from mid-summer to the end of the season, forming lush bushes with pale purple flowers.
Scheme number 2: curly flower bed "Heart"
To create a curly flower bed, it is best to use not tall plants... One of interesting options- heart.
- The outer outlines of the heart can be made with peonies. A composition made in pink and burgundy colors will look especially interesting. To do this, you need to plant alternately pink and burgundy peonies.
Advice. To decorate the curly flower bed "Heart" use plants of pink shades.
- Roses are suitable as an internal filling of the space.
Scheme No. 3: curb flowerbed "Sky in the clouds"
A romantic name and an unusually delicate flower bed. To create it, you only need three types of flowers.
- The first row is a composition of a Transcarpathian bell and gentian.
- The second row is snow-white phlox.
Scheme 4: perennials blooming in the first year
This option is suitable for those who do not want to wait a whole year before the first flowering of their flower beds. To do this, you need to pick up plants that will delight you with their flowering immediately after planting in the ground.
- Plant 2-year-old yellow and white mallows in the back of your flower bed.
- The sunflower is perfect for complementing the mallow.
- St. John's wort and Irish poppy will become bright spots of the flower garden.
- Lobelia of Cardinal will occupy a central location in the flower bed. This perennial has lush bushes.
- Fassen's cattle, Poskharsky's bell, and Kalanchoe will be small blue accents along the edges of the flower garden.
- Gravilat is suitable for decorating a flower garden in summer, and readings - in autumn.
Land preparation and planting
After you have decided on the place and type of the future flower bed, you need to prepare the soil for planting plants. Preparatory work has a separate list:
- Cleaning of stones, leaves and debris.
- Removal of beetles and other pests.
- Digging the soil to a depth of about 50 cm.
- Weed removal.
Whatever plants you choose, prepare the soil correctly before planting them.
Next important step- soil preparation. It is loamy, black earth, sandy, clayey, sandy loam and light.
Clay soil. To improve its quality, peat, humus sand and organic matter should be added to it. You will also need to make a drainage layer. This will require crushed stone, sand, gravel and broken brick... The drainage height is usually about 15 cm.
Sandy soil. For such a soil, drainage is absolutely not needed, since the water leaves too quickly, which can lead to the death of plants. Nevertheless, soil preparation consists in lining the bottom with humus, manure, peat, clay composition and organic fertilizers. The height of the layer is about 10 cm.
Attention! Do not forget to take into account the acidity of the soil before planting flowers.
After you decide on the shape of the flower garden, fertilizer is applied to the soil. It is a mixture of organic food and mineral fertilizers... Drainage is done if necessary. Then the soil is leveled with a rake.
The finished soil for the flower garden should be 10-15 cm above ground level. This is done so that water does not get trapped in the soil. So, for many bulbous plants excess moisture is destructive.
Perennial flower beds - garden decoration. It is not necessary to have professional skills in landscape design in order to improve your private plot... It is enough to have the desire to create a flower bed with your own hands. It is worth noting that there are many schemes for how to make a flower garden with your own hands. Advantage finished projects flower beds in that you will know in advance what result awaits you. And choosing perennial plants, you get the opportunity to admire your creation for more than one year.
Perennials for the garden: video
Beds with perennials: photo
Before making a flower garden continuous flowering with perennials, you need to carefully prepare for this interesting and responsible process.
The first thing to do is to choose a place for the flower bed. Depending on the terrain, flowers may be in the sun or vice versa - in the dense shade of trees and buildings.
Then you need to choose the flowers to be planted.
In fact, this is the most important stage at work. In parallel with the choice of plants, a plan is drawn up for their placement on the flower garden. The next step is preparing the soil for perennials.
After that - you need to arrange a flower bed natural stone or other suitable material.
Choosing a shape and place for a flower garden
At a summer cottage, which was originally intended for growing vegetables and fruits, it is not so easy to find a place for a flower garden.
For many years, carrots, beets and other vegetable beds have had priority.
At the same time, some types of flowers were planted under the window of the house or along the path. Such planting did not require special care from the owners.
At the same time, they helped create a favorable atmosphere and served as decorative decoration territory.
The situation has changed and today, when the plan of the estate is being developed, places for plants of continuous flowering are usually determined on it.
Depending on the size and configuration of the allotted place, you should also decide on the shape of the flower garden.
The most widespread today are the following forms of flower beds:
- border;
- flower bed;
- mixborder;
- parterre;
- discount.
Let's take a closer look at each of them.
Border
A curb is a narrow strip of land, 40-50 cm wide, on which one or two types of plants are placed.
It is often used as a decorative divider of certain areas on the site. It is very easy to create it.
The most important thing is to choose planting material from the category of annuals that have the maximum flowering period.
It is preferable to choose low-growing plants from annuals, although it is not necessary. It depends on the specific conditions.
Flower bed
A flower bed well known to gardeners is a flower garden of the correct geometric shape. Most often, the flower bed is placed in open areas, accessible for viewing from all sides.
One of the important rules that must be followed when breaking down is the possibility of continuous flowering (including annuals) for a long period.
For this, a selection of perennial plants is made, which are planted in a designated place according to a certain scheme.
With some experience, the gardener can choose the color scheme for the flower garden himself, which will be in harmony with the surrounding landscape.
If you have any questions, you can always get advice from a professional designer-florist.
Mixborder
The shape of a mixborder is a wide line that frames an object or adjoins the wall of the house.
Plants are selected in this flower garden in such a way that it looks elegant most of the year.
In addition to perennials, the mixborder contains ground-covering plants, shrubs and small trees.
The layout of plants, as in all other options, is developed in accordance with specific conditions.
In order for the flowering of a mixborder to be continuous, you need to know the features of growth ornamental plants... Know and skillfully combine them when placing.
Parterre
A parterre is a flower garden on which plants form some kind of pattern or ornament. Most often, it is designed using annual plants.
The rabatka is a wide and elongated strip. It is sometimes confused with a curb. Rabatki are one-sided and two-sided.
In the first version, plantings are spread along hedges, buildings, structures. Double-sided plantings are placed parallel to each other along the path.
They consist of two or three crops, most often summer ones.
The choice of plants and the arrangement of such plantings is carried out according to general rules that are valid for all decorative objects.
A grand plan is not required here.
How to make a flower garden all-season?
Flower arrangements always attract attention. However, not all of them are able to hold their gaze for a long time.
The simplest flower garden can be done quickly and easily. The main thing is to have seeds or seedlings at hand. Until recently, some summer residents did just that.
It often turned out that for a month the flower bed delighted the eye with a riot of colors and shapes. Then the flowers wither and the remaining months, until winter, in best case, turned green.
Beds of continuous flowering began to come into fashion gradually. As a rule, the time from idea to implementation takes only a year.
The main thing is to understand the basic principles and approaches to achieve your goal.
The first rule for creating a continuous flowering flower garden is to select plants from among perennials so that they bloom in different time.
It is necessary to achieve such a result that the flower bed is in flowers, with early spring and until late autumn. Moreover, in winter period it should not turn into a snowdrift.
For the first time, the layout of the plants will not hurt. The diagram can be drawn on paper or drawn up on a computer using a program.
When the flower garden breaks into open area, then tall plants are placed in the center. Closer to the edge - medium and low. Ground cover can be planted along the contour.
The same sequence is observed when decorating a mixborder located along a wall or fence.
In order to create a flower bed with continuous flowering of perennials, it is not necessary to collect dozens of varieties and species.
It will be enough to choose 7-9 species that bloom at different times.
It is advisable to take into account the flowering period of each plant, within 3-4 weeks.
The simplest calculation shows that for one flowering plant there will be two species at the wilting stage and the same at the flowering stage.
The composition can include decorative deciduous specimens and re-blooming.
To fill the resulting gaps, sowing of annuals is allowed, which can be changed every year.
Plant selection
The scheme of a flower garden, which is formed from perennials, may include other types of plants. As a rule, perennial plants do not bloom for long.
This fact has to be taken into account and "in stock" ornamental grasses and individual plants with bright foliage.
In this case, throughout the warm period, the flower bed will retain its design appearance.
At the same time, it is important to make an accurate calculation of the flowering time for the main elements of the composition.
Blooming in spring
This list includes: lumbago, snowdrop, lungwort, subulate phlox, crocus, daffodil.
All these perennials do not require special care and tolerates residual spring frosts well.
Here you can also add carnations, irises, coreopsis, peonies, lamb, which bloom until mid-June.
Blooming in summer
Here the list of perennials is much larger - delphinium, mallow, paniculata phlox are distinguished by their unpretentiousness and resistance to hot weather.
This list also includes lilies, sage, acornfish, purpurea echinacea.
There are many other flowers that will suit any flower bed.
Blooming in autumn
First of all, you need to name the aster, which grows in all climatic zones and blooms until the first snow.
Stonecrop, catnip, Japanese anemone, aconite, gelenium look good next to it.
In some of these perennials, flowers are not inferior in brightness to summer varieties.
Flower bed care
A flower garden of perennials, which pleases the eye with continuous flowering from spring to late autumn, needs regular maintenance.
Drawing a plan, picking up and planting plants - actions are necessary, but not sufficient to achieve a lasting result. It is very important to water and weed the flower bed in a timely manner.
Loosening the soil is a piece of cake, but it's important to do this early in the morning or after the sun has gone out.
Feeding perennials, removing dried inflorescences and replanting annuals is also done in a timely manner.
If an empty space appears on the flower bed, then it can be closed decorative stone or drop off suitable flower from annuals. It is advisable to close heat-loving varieties for the winter.
You can make a reliable shelter from special material. It is not recommended to use fallen leaves.
It is advisable to draw up a work plan for preparing perennials for winter.
And then, already in the next season - a flower garden of perennial flowering will decorate the estate or summer cottage without additional efforts and costs on the part of gardeners.
Usually, beginners, with the intention of planting a flower bed, simply buy the seeds of their favorite or liked flowers and plant them without thinking about how they will look in the neighborhood when flowering. Very often, expectations do not coincide with the result - the flower bed turns out to be clumsy, chaotic, sloppy. Indeed, when planting a mixborder, it is necessary to take into account many nuances: the timing and duration of flowering, necessary care and the need for light, moisture, harmony of colors. If you simply do not have enough time and knowledge for such an analysis, then you can use ready-made flower bed planting schemes. We will tell you how to plant perennial flower beds with your own hands and give you the most successful planting schemes.
How to create a flower garden: choosing perennial plants
If you haven't chosen yet exact location under a flower bed, we suggest you use a few tips.
First of all, you need to know that according to the flowering time, spring, summer, autumn and continuous flowering flower beds are distinguished.
There are flower beds different forms: round, oval, square, rectangular, curly.
They can be horizontal or vertical. They can be planted in flowerpots and containers. They can be located in any places where you want, however, the location of the flower bed will directly affect the choice of plants, taking into account their preferences in the presence of light and shade, the composition of the soil.
Large flower beds are always big problems and inconvenient care. If you want to use a significant area for a flower garden, then it is better to divide it into several flower beds. For flower beds round shape optimal size will be up to 2 m.
The following types of flower beds are also distinguished:
- regular (with flowers that bloom at the same time, planted in a specific order);
- irregular (with flowers blooming at different times, planted chaotically);
- raised;
- monoclumba (with flowers of the same type).
You need to understand that not only are planted in a flower bed flower plants, and decorative-deciduous or their combination. It is most difficult to compose a flower garden of continuous flowering from perennials, since in this case it will be necessary to take into account the timing of preservation of the decorativeness of a particular flower. In order for the flower bed to look attractive throughout the season, it is necessary to make calculations so that flowering or lush deciduous plants could cover up those that have already faded and have an unsightly appearance, so that there are no gaping black holes in the flower garden.
Another factor to look out for when drawing up beautiful flower beds of perennials with your own hands, is the compatibility of plants, because, for example, root system some can take root in others. In this case, they simply will not get along side by side.
And, of course, the plants should be coordinated in size and color. Tall ones are usually planted in the center or in the background, lower ones closer to the edge, ground cover ones at the very edge.
Thus, in order to choose the right perennials for a flower bed, it is necessary to take into account the following factors:
- the location of the flower bed - shady and light areas;
- the timing and duration of flowering plants;
- color of flowers;
- the size;
- flower bed shape;
- type of flower bed.
Perennials in the bulk are light-loving plants. However, there are specimens that are suitable for planting in the shade. These are, for example, astilba, wrestler, brunner, dicentra, doronicum, lipstick, saxifrage, lily of the valley, lupine, rogersia, cyanosis, hosta.
Pay attention to the composition of the soil - usually perennial crops prefer fertilized loams. On the clay soils hosta, daylily, peony will feel good. Yarrow, kermek, erythroat like to grow in sandy ones.
If you do not have the opportunity to often take care of the flower bed and are looking for an answer to the question of what plants to plant in the country with a minimum of care, then take a closer look at nemophila, catchment, astilbe, hosta, peony, primrose, rudbeckia.
In regular flower beds, hosts, astilbe, lilies, gladioli, daffodils, etc. are usually planted. In addition to the fact that these plants bloom at the same time, they are also about the same height. A variety of plants are placed in irregulars: annuals and perennials, trees and shrubs. In raised flower beds, daffodils, tulips, delphiniums, violets, lilies of the valley look great.
For spring beds, choose lupine, incense, primrose, lily of the valley. Stonecrop, daylily, purse, tiarella are suitable for summer ones. In the autumn, plant chrysanthemums, asters, erythematosus, and lightning. Throughout the season, yarrow, craspedia, and decorative onions bloom.
A flower bed with perennials can please the eye within a couple of months after planting.
How to choose a scale for a flower garden, perennial planting schemes
When selecting colors it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that the same color at every time of the day and when the lighting is changed will look different. So, for example, in sunlight, a monochrome white flowerbed looks completely faded - a flower garden consisting only of petunias white, from afar will look like a sheet of foam or snow cover. Here you cannot do without bright blotches of other shades.
Red and yellow flowers planted in one place will tire the eyes with their variegation. It is also better to dilute them with plants colored in a calmer scale.
The multitude of multi-colored flowers will give the flower bed a sense of disorder and ill-conceivedness.
Did you know? If the selection of flowers is unsuccessful, plants that do not fit into the color scheme can be dug up. And in their place, plant the ones that match the color.
When choosing a color scheme for finished flower beds of perennials, it is also important to know that the color of plants will look differently depending on the structure of the petals and leaves. So, shiny, glossy ones will reflect light and at a distance seem somewhat lighter than they really are. Matte will be darker.
If you want to visually enlarge a small flower garden, then avoid contrasts and use only a few colors. Also, a flower bed will seem more, where blue flowers are planted in the background, and yellow and red flowers in the foreground.
There is one more recommendation on how to arrange a flower bed of perennials: the more variegated the flowers in the foreground, the calmer the color scheme of the backdrop should be. Plants with dark flowers and leaves are best planted in the center. When laying several flower beds, only one can be with a highly contrasting combination of colors.
Important!When choosing the color scheme of the flower bed, you can adhere to the following proportion: one color - 70%, the second - 25%, the third - 5%.
If the choice of perennial plants for flower bed decoration causes you difficulties, then you can use ready-made schemes.
White-blue gamut
As we noted above, a flower garden made only in white colors does not always look good and requires dilution with other colors. You can, for example, add blue accents to it.
The choice of perennials with blue flowers is huge: anemone, aquilegia, astilbe, bells, clematis, delphinium. Asters, roses, peonies, tulips, daffodils are white in color. In green such a flower garden will be decorated with the leaves of hosts, lungwort, brunners.
Here is one of the do-it-yourself oval flower garden schemes for beginners in white and blue tones interspersed with yellow and pale orange:
- in the center: highlander volatile and echinacea;
- closer to the edge: Fassen's catnip, paniculata phlox, hosta, hybrid delphinium, "Variegata" molin, hare cabbage, pearl anaphalis.
Did you know? If it seemed a little to you in the finished flowering flower bed of white, you can add it by placing white flowerpots, a bench, an arch, and sculptures next to it.
Flower beds in pink and purple tones can create a romantic mood.
Pink is pleasing to the eye, attracts attention, goes well with any shade of green. It visually enlarges the size of the flower garden, blurring its borders. The combination of pink flowers with lilac looks very good, with the addition of plants with grayish leaves.
Here example of pink-purple design flower bed and an approximate scheme of its landing (oval, size 3 × 4 m):
- closer to the center: highlander changeable, phlox paniculata ("Dragon");
- framed: hybrid monarda, astrantia ("Claret"), badan, hybrid heuchera ("Obsidian"), red geranium ("Compactum"), telephium plant ("Matrona"), milk-flowered bell ("Loddon Anna").
Of perennials, clematis, carnations, astilbe, peonies, phloxes, rhododendrons, incense, tulips, hydrangeas, spireas, etc. bloom pink.
Important! It is not necessary to adhere to the exact execution of the circuit. If you didn't manage to buy a plant, you can replace it with another one with the same flowering time and flower color.
Red is one of the most difficult colors when drawing up flower arrangements, because it is he who first of all attracts attention, and it can be difficult to choose plants that also look advantageous against its background.
Therefore, red should always be the main focus. If several accents are planned, then it is better to use its shades. Planted next to red and white will visually form pink color, when adding yellow to red, we get orange scale, with blue blotches, the flower garden will sparkle with purple.
Red with orange will not look very good, but if you dilute it with white and yellow, you get an interesting combination. You can try to combine dahlias, rudbeckia, yellow and orange marigolds, knifofii, gelenium, lychnis. And emphasize all this splendor with a yew hedge.
Creating a bright flower garden
Here are two options for creating a variegated flower bed of perennials for beginners.
Option 1.
Background: biennial yellow, red and white mallow, ten-leaved sunflower, Icelandic poppy, St. John's wort. Center: crimson cardinal lobelia. Scattered throughout the flower bed: Fassen's catnip, Poskharsky's bell, Kalanchoe, gravilat, sedum.
Option 2 (in combination with annuals).
The background: tree heliotrope; Center: Sander's tobacco with scarlet flowers, terry bright orange marigolds. In the stalls: pink balsam New Guinea. 
Flower garden for a shaded area
A flower garden from a combination of such plants is suitable for the shade: funkia, magnificent bleeding center, red epimedium, muscarid liriope, geranium, lungwort, spring umbilical, violets.
For partial shade, the design of a perennial flower bed with a primrose planted in the center is also suitable. Ferns, cereals, irises can make a harmonious neighborhood to it.
An interesting option is with astilba in combination with funkia and shieldwort.
Important! When decorating a flower garden, it is better to avoid symmetrical plantings. Blurred outlines look more interesting.
Such, for example, can be an approximate scheme for planting a shady flower garden dimensions 3 × 4:
- in the center: filipendula Kamchatka; a little further from her: Astilbe Thunberg;
- in a circle framed: hakonehloa, rojersia feathery (you can place a pachisander in front of it), hosta, badan, black cohosh.
Do-it-yourself flower garden (flower bed): layout features
At the initial stage of laying a flower garden, you need to decide on its location, size and shape.
We have already noted that it is necessary to arrange a flower bed on sunny place where the rays fall for 12 hours. There is only a small list of perennials that retain their decorative effect in light shade.
In order for the flowerbed to look good and attract attention, it must be located at a distance of 60-250 cm from the place from which you plan to admire it.
Next, it is advisable to sketch a diagram of the arrangement of flowers on paper (preferably millimeter paper), painting over the areas with colored pencils in accordance with the color of plant flowers. This will give you a better idea of what it will actually look like. blooming flower bed, and the perfect combination of colors. In this way, it is not difficult to create a flower bed scheme with a specific pattern.
Usually, beautiful flower beds of perennials, they are supplemented with annual plants, deciduous and ornamental and conifers. Too many of them should not be planted, this will not add beauty to the flower garden. For 1 sq. m flower beds can be placed on average 2-3 large plants 100-120 cm high, 4-6 medium - 40-90 cm high, 7-9 low 20-40 cm and 16-20 dwarf 5-20 cm high, bulbous plants - 20-25 pieces.
In order to explain in an accessible way, according to what principle the plants should be planted, we will give an example of the design of the simplest round flower bed. The tallest plants should be planted in its center. Take delphinium, for example. Plant low-growing flowers of the same type along the edges as a frame. It can be, for example, balsam, pansies, linen. Fill the voids between the center and the edge with plants that bloom throughout summer period: petunia, marigolds, begonia, pelargonium.
Did you know? Marigolds and lavender planted along the edge will help protect the flower bed from pests.
A flower bed of perennials, how to achieve continuous flowering
A flower bed of continuous flowering or "four seasons" allows you to admire the beauty of flowering plants throughout the season.
In order to compose it, you need to know the timing and duration of perennial flowering. So, spring perennials for a flower bed of continuous flowering there will be muscari, daffodils, lilac, eastern wintering house, aquilegia, arabis. In summer, decorative are: rose, lavender, delphinium, mallow, foxglove, cosmea, eringium, oregano. In the fall, deciduous plants and cereals will add beauty to the flower garden. Stonecrop, Khubei anemone, Siberian chrysanthemum, kosmeya, eringium also remain decorative at this time. Until winter, the flowerbed can be decorated with dried flowers from sedum, wintering, erythematosus and lightning. 
When drawing up the layout of a flower bed of continuous flowering from perennials and its scheme, a few tips will help you.
In the foreground, low-growing plants should be placed, for example, primroses, muscari, hyacinths, snowdrops. Medium-sized ones are planted in the middle part. This category includes tulips, foxgloves, pyrethrum. In the background, tall perennial plants should take place - chrysanthemums, saintbrinks, stonecrops. Between them, you can plant a cuff and gray fescue.
More interesting flower beds will be those in which perennials and annuals will be combined.
Important! Since the duration of flowering of perennial plants is on average one month, at least seven plant species must be planted in a flower bed. Moreover, it is desirable that three of them bloom at the same time.
Here one of the simple schemes of a flower bed of continuous flowering perennials, which is suitable for planting near a fence.
Background: stock-roses of various shades, decorative sunflower. Before them are Icelandic poppies and Gaillardias. Through most of the flower beds, line up with cardinal lobelia. Plant three varieties in front of her blue flowers, for example, catnip, Poskharsky's bell, katananche. And also red accents in the form of gravilat. Add sedum and heuchera.
Everything that you manage to do with your own hands always brings more pleasure than what is acquired ready-made or made by someone. Try to arrange a flower bed yourself, make it different from everyone else, experiment with your favorite plants and different colors. And as a hint on how best to arrange a flower garden, you can use ready-made schemes with a description.
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Leafing through glossy magazines on landscape design, you, sighing more than once, asked yourself the question: “How can you create such beauty? with my own hands? " Naturally, in order to create landscape compositions, whether it is a flower bed, an alpine slide or a stream, certain knowledge is required.
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How to break a flower garden: options for solving the issue
If you do not have sufficient knowledge about how to set up a flower garden at a summer cottage, but you still enthusiastically take on its creation, the result may not meet your expectations. What is the way out of the situation?
Spring riot of colors
There are several options:
- sign up for courses of landscape designers, pay a tidy sum for them, spend several months and get basic knowledge about plants, soil and flower beds. But you still have to create flower beds yourself, making annoying blunders and mistakes.
- choose an easier way, which will give a guaranteed result, - use ready-made flower garden schemes suitable for the conditions of your suburban area.
Do you have a desire to create? Then I advise you to choose the second, more affordable option... This option is not as difficult as it seems at first glance, if you have ready-made schemes and designs for flower beds. Having studied them, you can do "drawing with flowers" - create a flower bed of your dreams with your own hands.
Choosing a place for a flower bed
First of all, on the plan of the suburban area, it is necessary to determine the place for the flower bed. The flower bed can be different: a rabat or mixborder along the path, an arabesque flower bed against the background of a lawn, a rustic or romantic flower bed in a shady corner of the garden.
Flower bed shapes are also different: geometric and free. Which flower garden to choose from - it all depends on the landscape design of the site and your preferences.
Mixborder flower garden
On the plan of the flower garden, it is necessary to note the illuminated and shady places... This is very important for the right choice assortment of plants and creating for them optimal conditions development and flowering.
These rules must be adhered to when forming a flower garden of continuous flowering, or, as it is also called, a "flower garden of four seasons." These flower beds look beautiful all year round.
A flower garden of four seasons is the dream of any summer resident
The right combination of perennials makes it possible to contemplate the blooming splendor of plants throughout the season - from spring to late autumn. If you supplement the flower garden with conifers and some species tall grasses, as well as a periwinkle or tenacious border, the flower bed will remain elegant even in winter.
When choosing plants for a flower bed of continuous flowering, it must be remembered that the number of plant species depends on the size of the flower bed. If the flower garden is small, and there are too many perennials, instead of a feeling of harmony, we get a completely opposite effect - a feeling of disorder and discomfort.
Low-growing perennials reveal their beauty in large groups... Their correct placement in the flower bed will manifest itself during flowering. Blooming in spring undersized perennials (snowdrops, primroses, muscari, hyacinths) are placed in the foreground.
Flower garden of four seasons
Plants of medium height (tulips, pyrethrum, foxglove) will occupy the middle of the flower bed. The background will remain behind tall summer and autumn perennials - stonecrops, chrysanthemums, and saintbrinks. Grasses are planted between them - cuff and gray fescue.
Naturally, you should not count on the fact that in one season you will be able to create an ideal flower garden project. Therefore, if there is no experience, it is better to start with schemes of simpler flower beds.
Mistakes can be corrected by planting annual flowers between perennials.
Do-it-yourself flower beds according to ready-made schemes - you can't imagine easier
Here are examples of DIY garden design using ready-made flower garden schemes.
"Piece of cake" in the corner of the garden
The shape of the flower garden resembles a piece of cake with a diameter of 2 meters. There is a place for such a flower garden in any corner of your garden. The color scheme of the flower bed is red-purple and silver.
Sketch of a flower garden "Piece of cake"
Flower garden scheme "slice of cake"
1. In the corner of the flower bed we plant a dark red daylily "Ed Murray" - 3 bushes.
2. The silvery leaves of the “Silver Queen” wormwood will accentuate the beauty of the velvet flowers of the daylily and create a favorable background for the heuchera - 4 pieces.
3. Macedonian breeder, variety "Mars Midget" of dark red color - 6 specimens.
4. Heuchera with burgundy leaves - 6 bushes.
5. The wide part of the flower bed will be decorated with silvery leaves of the cesspool. We plant 5 copies.
Flower garden layout for the impatient
If you really want to see the fruits of your labors this year, I propose a flower bed scheme for the impatient. Its peculiarity is that all plants will require a lot of sun. The background for this flower bed will be a fence, a blank wall or a group of conifers.
Sketch of a "flower garden for the impatient"
Scheme "Flower garden for the impatient"
1. In the background of the flower garden, we plant a stock-rose of white, red and yellow color.
2. Decorative sunflower, with inflorescences-baskets of bright yellow color, will complement the background.
3. Icelandic poppy flowers will make the flower bed even brighter.
4. Cardinal lobelia will be placed in the flower garden with a red ribbon.
Blue-blue accents in the flower garden will be set:
6. Cattleman.
7. Poskharsky's bell.
8. Blue katananche.
Bright red spots will create:
9. Gravilat "Feuerbal".
10. Sedum "Matrona" will delight you with its splendor in the fall.
11. Leaves of blood-red heuchera will decorate the flower bed until frost.
Mixed flower beds
A flower garden of continuous flowering can be made brighter and more expressive if perennial and annual plants are planted in it. When planning the creation of such a flower garden, we take all the same perennials as a basis, plant annuals in the empty spaces between them, which will decorate the flower bed with abundant and long flowering.
Usage annual plants – perfect option when it is necessary to close unsightly places in a flower bed after perennials, for example, bulbs, have faded.
It is better to start the process of creating a mixed flower bed, armed with a sheet of paper and colored pencils. On the plan of the flower garden, which is based on perennials, between faded plants or in their place, taking into account the color range and flowering time, we "inscribe" annuals with pencils. Thus, you can perfectly match the color combination in the mixed flower bed.
Diagram of a bright flower bed of annuals and perennials
Do you like everything bright? I offer you a project of a flower garden, which will become a real decoration of your summer cottage. It is so simple that even a teapot can create it. The color scheme is reds, oranges, pinks and purples, and, of course, the bright green of the leaves.
Bright summer flower bed
In the background of the flower bed, we plant a perennial heliotrope tree-like (1), the middle tier of the flower bed is formed by Sander's tobacco with scarlet flowers (2) and terry bright orange marigolds (3). In the parterre, the flowerbeds have given place to the pink balsam of New Guinea (4).
Flower arrangement with dahlias
Although dahlias are perennials that require special care: they are dug up in the fall and stored in the basement in the winter, many growers really like them. Bright and expressive, dahlias fit perfectly into a summer flower bed. The peak flowering of these beauties is in July-September.
In our flower garden scheme, a bright yellow dahlia (1) is located in the center of the flower bed, next to it is a blue hybrid delphinium (2) and a monarda (3). Bottom part the beds are assigned to the common Dubrovnik (4).
To make this flower bed look well-groomed, it is necessary to regularly remove wilted monarda and dahlia flowers. If, after the first flowering at the delphinium, all peduncles are removed, at the end of summer it will bloom again.
A flower bed in white and green tones: a scheme of a flower garden from annuals
If you need to brighten a dark corner of your garden or are annoyed bright flowers, you can use a ready-made annual flower garden scheme, which looks very noble and sophisticated.
Green and white flower bed
Only three plants were planted at the club: smooth molucella (1), tailed amaranth (2), large snapdragon (3), but they created an amazing effect.
How to create the illusion with a flower garden
If there is a dry stream on your property, plants are planted on its banks. You might be wondering: how to properly lay out a flower garden around a dry stream to create the illusion of cool babbling water? Here is one of possible options.
Fill the stream bed with large round pebbles. Color the stones in the center blue. You can use glass balls for decoration of blue color... All these design "tricks" together with plants of cold colors will create a feeling of dynamics and coolness.
From the blue brook ...
Leaf grate bamboo (1) will give the composition a sense of volume. If there is no bamboo, we can replace it with an ostrich. Hybrids of bearded iris (2) will find their place on the bank of a stream, next to them will feel good lobelia (3) and creeping tenacious (4). Downstream, between the boulders, there are lush bushes of Poskharsky's bell (5), hybrids of Aubrieta (6) and large-leaved bruner (7). The awl-leaved bryozoan will add bright greenery (8). The whole composition will be completed by a creeping red tenacious (9).