Personal plot - expanse for a novice grower. In order to diversify your landscape, it is not necessary to hire professional landscapers. You can quite manage on your own. The most popular option on how to ennoble the landscape is the breakdown of flower beds. Experienced gardeners recommend planting perennials, so that the flowers will please you for more than one season. You will learn how to properly break flower beds, what flowers and schemes to use from the article, and colorful photos easily visualize any option.
Types of flower beds
What are flower beds? These are areas that combine decorative deciduous, flowering, herbaceous and shrub plantings. They also include garden paths and architectural buildings. The sizes of flower beds are very diverse - from small to huge. There is also a proportional relationship between plants and their surrounding forms.
Attention! "Golden Ratio" - 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. The 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 one principle: color shades, height, foliage shape, etc.
- Rabatki. Narrow plantings of flowers that have predominantly one tone. Or decorated in the form of a geometric ornament. Often rabatki are part of a flower bed of perennials.
- Borders. Stripes of small plants. Used as decoration individual elements perennial flower garden.
- Rockeries. Combination of the living and the dead. Namely plants and stones. Another name for rockeries is stone gardens.
- Rock gardens. Flower beds, combining alpine plants growing on a small hill.
Creating a scheme from perennials for beginners
A beautiful and well-groomed flower garden is the dream of many gardeners. But before proceeding with its creation, you need to carefully study and choose the appropriate scheme. You can do it yourself, but it is much easier to use ready-made visual diagrams. Time-tested projects from perennials are sure to please you.
Scheme number 1: a simple option for long flowering
An interesting composition is made up of unpretentious perennials. Her distinguishing feature- duration of flowering.
- Panicled pink phlox. The ideal time for planting is the beginning of autumn or spring. This plant thrives in sandy and well-drained soils. Flowering continues from mid-summer until autumn.
- Pale pink astilbe. Bloom various kinds lasts usually from the end of June to August. Astilba loves regular fertilization and periodic loosening of the soil.
- Purple with a silvery hue daylily. Planting is carried out in the spring in the soil, carefully fertilized and drained. The plant prefers loam with acidity in the range of 6 to 6.5 pH.
An example of the design of a flower bed of perennials
- Heuchera with lavender foliage. Grows in unstable soils. Flowering occurs from May to July.
- Geranium. Flowering from July to autumn. During the flowering period, the bushes of the plant acquire magnificent forms. It blooms from mid-summer to the end of the season, forming lush bushes with pale purple flowers.
Scheme No. 2: figured flower bed "Heart"
To create a figured flower bed, it is best to use not tall plants. One of interesting options- heart.
- The outer outlines of the heart can be done using peonies. A composition made in pink and burgundy colors will look especially interesting. To do this, you need to plant pink and burgundy peonies alternately.
Advice. To decorate the curly flower bed "Heart" use plants of pink shades.
- Roses are suitable as an internal filling of space.
Scheme No. 3: border flowerbed "Sky in the clouds"
A romantic name and an unusually delicate flower bed. To create it, you need only three types of flowers.
- The first row is a composition of Transcarpathian bellflower and gentian.
- The second row is snow-white phlox.
Scheme number 4: perennials that bloom 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 bed. To do this, you need to pick up plants that will please with their flowering immediately after planting in the ground.
- Plant two-year-old mallows in yellow and white in the background of the flower bed.
- Sunflower is suitable to complement the mallow.
- St. John's wort and Irish poppy will become bright spots of the flower garden.
- Lobelia cardinalis will take center stage in the flower bed. This perennial has lush bushes.
- Fassen's catnip, 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 the summer, and reading - in the fall.
Ground 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 stones, leaves and debris.
- Removal of bugs and other pests.
- Digging the soil to a depth of about 50 cm.
- Weed removal.
Whatever plants you choose, properly prepare the soil before planting them.
Next important step- soil preparation. It can be loamy, black earth, sandy, clayey, sandy 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. To do this, you need crushed stone, sand, gravel and broken brick. The height of the drainage is usually about 15 cm.
Sandy soil. For such soil, drainage is absolutely not needed, because 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 layer height 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 bed, fertilizer is applied to the soil. It is a mixture of organic top dressings and mineral fertilizers. If necessary, drainage is done. 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 linger in the soil. Yes, for many bulbous plants excess moisture is harmful.
Perennial flower beds - garden decoration. It is not necessary to have professional landscape design skills to ennoble your household plot. It is enough to have a desire to create a flower bed with your own hands. It is worth noting that there are a huge number of 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
Flowerbeds 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, the flowers may be in the sun or vice versa - in the dense shade of trees and buildings.
Then you need to choose the flowers that will be planted.
In essence, this is the most milestone at work. In parallel with the choice of plants, a plan is drawn up for their placement in 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.
The choice of form and place for a flower garden
In a summer cottage, which was originally intended for growing vegetables and fruits, finding a place for a flower garden is not so easy.
For many years, beds with carrots, beets and other vegetables have been given priority.
At the same time, some types of flowers were planted under the window of the house or along the path. Such landings did not require special care on the part of the owners.
At the same time, they helped to create a favorable atmosphere and served as decorative ornament territory.
The situation has changed and today, when a plan of the estate is being developed, it usually determines the places for plants of continuous flowering.
Depending on the size and configuration of the allotted space, you should also decide on the shape of the flower garden.
The most widespread today are the following forms of flower beds:
- border;
- flowerbed;
- mixborder;
- parterre;
- discount.
Let's look at each of them in more detail.
Border
A border 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 for certain areas on the site. It's very easy to create it.
The most important thing is to choose planting material from the category of annuals that have a maximum flowering period.
It is preferable to choose low-growing plants from annuals, although not necessarily. It depends on the specific conditions.
Flowerbed
The flower bed, well known to gardeners, is a flower garden of regular geometric shape. Most often, a flower bed is placed in open areas, accessible for viewing from all sides.
One of the important rules that must be observed when splitting is the possibility of continuous flowering (including annuals) for a long period.
For this, perennial plants are selected, which are planted in a designated place according to a certain scheme.
With some experience, the gardener himself can choose the color scheme for the flower garden, which will be in harmony with the surrounding landscape.
If you have any questions, you can always get advice from a professional flower designer.
Mixborder
Mixborder in its form is a wide line that frames some object or is adjacent to 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 cover 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 the mixborder to be continuous, it is necessary to know the features of growth ornamental plants. Know and skillfully combine them when placing.
Parterre
Parterre is called a flower garden, on which plants form some kind of pattern or ornament. Most often it is made out using annual plants.
Rabatka is a wide and elongated strip. Sometimes it is confused with a curb. Rabatki are unilateral and bilateral.
In the first variant, plantings 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 plantations is carried out according to general rules, which apply to all decorative objects.
A grand plan is not required here.
How to make a flower garden all-season?
Compositions of flowers always attract attention. However, not every one of them is able to hold the eye for a long time.
The simplest flower garden is done quickly and easily. The main thing is to have seeds or seedlings on 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 withered and the remaining months, until winter, in best case, turned green.
Flowerbeds of continuous flowering began to come into fashion gradually. As a rule, it takes only a year from an idea to implementation.
The main thing is to understand the basic principles and approaches to achieve your goal.
The first rule of creating a continuous flowering flower garden is to select plants from among the 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 covers 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 desirable 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 in the withering stage and the same number in the flowering stage.
The composition can include decorative deciduous specimens and re-blooming.
To fill the resulting gaps, it is allowed to sow annuals, which can be changed every year.
Plant selection
The scheme of the flower garden, which is formed from perennials, may include other types of plants. As a rule, perennial plants bloom for a short time.
This fact has to be taken into account and have "in stock" ornamental grasses and individual plants with bright foliage.
In this case, throughout the entire warm period, the flower bed will retain its design appearance.
It is important to make an accurate calculation of the timing of flowering for the main elements of the composition.
blooming in spring
This list includes: backache, snowdrop, lungwort, styloid phlox, crocus, narcissus.
All these perennials do not require special care and well tolerate residual spring frosts.
Here you can also add carnations, irises, coreopsis, peonies, yasnotka, which bloom until mid-June.
blooming in summer
Here, the list of perennials is much longer - delphinium, mallow, panicled phlox are unpretentious and resistant to hot weather.
This list also includes lilies, sage, sage, echinacea purpurea.
There are many other colors 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.
Next to her look good stonecrop-skripun, catnip, Japanese anemone, aconite, gelenium.
In some of these perennials, flowers are as bright as summer varieties.
Flowerbed care
A flower garden of perennials, which pleases the eye with continuous flowering from spring to late autumn, needs regular care.
Drawing a plan, picking up and planting plants are actions 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 easy to make, but it is important to do this work early in the morning or after the sun has gone down.
Top dressing of perennials, removal of dried inflorescences and replanting of 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 matter. Fallen leaves are not recommended.
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 vending 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 planting schemes for flower beds. We will tell you how to plant flower beds from perennials with your own hands and give the most successful planting patterns.
How to create a flower garden: the choice of perennials
If you haven't chosen yet exact location under the flower bed, we suggest you use a few tips.
First of all, you need to know that according to the time of flowering, 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 and vertical. They can be planted in flowerpots and containers. They can be located anywhere you want, however, the location of the flower bed will directly affect the choice of plants, given their preferences for light and shade, soil composition.
Large flower beds are always big problems and inconvenient care. If you want to use a large area for a flower garden, then it is better to break it into several flower beds. For a flower bed round shape optimal size will be up to 2 m.
Also distinguish these types of flower beds:
- regular (with flowers that bloom at the same time, planted in a certain order);
- irregular (with flowers blooming at different times, planted randomly);
- raised;
- mono-flowers (with flowers of the same species).
You need to understand that not only flower plants, and also decorative and deciduous or their combination. The most difficult thing is to make a flower garden of continuous flowering from perennials, since in this case it will be necessary to take into account the period of preservation of the decorative effect of a particular flower. In order for the flowerbed to look attractive throughout the season, you need to make calculations so that blooming or lush deciduous plants could cover 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 keep in mind when drafting beautiful flower beds from perennials with their own hands, is the compatibility of plants, because, for example, root system some can clog the roots of others. In this case, they simply do 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, and ground cover near the very edge.
Thus, in order to choose the right perennials for a flower bed, it is necessary to take into account such factors:
- the location of the flower bed - shady and light areas;
- timing and duration of flowering plants;
- flower color;
- the size;
- the shape of the flower bed;
- flowerbed type.
Perennials in the bulk are photophilous plants. However, there are instances that are suitable for landing in the shade. These are, for example, astilbe, wrestler, brunner, dicenter, doronicum, sponge, saxifrage, lily of the valley, lupine, rogersia, cyanosis, host.
Pay attention to the composition of the soil - usually perennial crops prefer fertilized loam. On the clay soils hosta, daylily, peony will feel good. Yarrow, kermek, eryngium 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 the nemophila, catchment area, astilbe, host, peony, primrose, rudbeckia.
In regular flower beds, hostas, astilbes, 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 irregular ones: annuals and perennials, trees and shrubs. Daffodils, tulips, delphiniums, violets, lilies of the valley look great in raised flower beds.
For spring flower beds, choose lupine, bergenia, primrose, lily of the valley. For summer, stonecrop, daylily, chistets, tiarella are suitable. In autumn, plant chrysanthemums, asters, eryngium, lightning. Throughout the season, yarrow, craspedia, decorative onions bloom.
A flower bed with perennials can please the eye within a couple of months after planting.
How to choose a range for a flower garden, perennial planting schemes
When selecting colors it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that the same color at each time of the day and when changing lighting will look different. So, for example, in sunlight, a monochrome white flower bed looks completely faded - a flower garden consisting only of petunias white color, from a distance will look like a sheet of foam or snow cover. Here you can not do without bright blotches of other shades.
Planted in one place, red and yellow flowers will tire the eyes with their variegation. It is also better to dilute them with plants painted in a calmer range.
Many colorful flowers will give the flower bed a sense of disorder and ill-conceived.
Did you know? With an unsuccessful selection of flowers, plants that do not fit into the color scheme can be dug up. And in their place to land suitable in color.
When choosing a color scheme for finished flower bed of perennials, it is also important to know that the color of plants will look different depending on the structure of the petals and leaves. So, shiny, glossy ones will reflect light and at a distance seem a little 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 small number of flowers. Also, a flower bed will appear larger, where blue flowers are planted in the background, and yellow and red in the front.
There is one more recommendation on how to arrange a flower bed of perennials: the more colorful 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 decorating a flower bed causes you difficulties, then you can use ready-made schemes.
White-blue gamma
As we noted above, a flower garden made only in white does not always look good and needs to be diluted with other colors. You can, for example, add blue accents to it.
The choice of perennials with blue flowers is huge: anemone, aquilegia, astilbe, bluebells, clematis, delphinium. Asters, roses, peonies, tulips, daffodils have a white color. in green such a flower garden will be decorated with leaves of hosta, lungwort, brunners.
Here is one of the do-it-yourself oval flower garden schemes for beginners in white and blue with splashes of yellow and pale orange:
- in the center: knotweed and echinacea;
- closer to the edge: Fassen's catnip, panicled phlox, hosta, hybrid delphinium, Variegata lightning, hare cabbage, pearl anafalis.
Did you know? If it seemed to you not enough in the finished blooming flower bed, 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 shades of green. It visually increases the size of the flower garden, blurring its borders. The combination of pink flowers with lilac, with the addition of plants with grayish leaves, looks very good.
Here pink-purple design example flower bed and an approximate scheme of its landing (oval, size 3 × 4 m):
- closer to the center: changeable mountaineer, panicled phlox ("Dragon");
- framed: hybrid monarda, astrantia ("Claret"), bergenia, hybrid geuchera ("Obsidian"), red geranium ("Compactum"), sedum telephium ("Matrona"), lactiferous bell ("Anna Loddon").
Of the perennials, clematis, carnations, astilbes, peonies, phloxes, rhododendrons, bergenia, tulips, hydrangeas, spireas, etc. bloom in pink.
Important! It is not necessary to adhere to the exact execution of the scheme. If you couldn’t buy a plant, you can replace it with another one with the same flowering time and flower color.
Red color is one of the most difficult colors in flower arrangements, because it is the color that attracts attention in the first place, and it can be difficult to find plants that also look advantageous against its background.
Therefore, red should always occupy the main focus. If several accents are planned, then it is better to use its shades. Red and white planted side by side will visually form pink color, when adding yellow to red, we get orange gamut, 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 colorful perennial flower bed for beginners.
Option 1.
Background: biennial yellow, red and white mallows, ten-petal sunflower, Icelandic poppy, odorless St. John's wort. Center: crimson cardinal lobelia. Scattered throughout the flowerbed: Fassen's catnip, Poskharsky's bell, Kalanchoe, gravel, stonecrop.
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
For a shade, a flower garden from a combination of such plants is suitable: funkia, magnificent dicentra, red epimedium, muscariform liriope, geranium, lungwort, spring umbilical cord, violets.
For partial shade, the design of a perennial flower bed with a primrose planted in the center is also suitable. Her harmonious neighborhood can be ferns, cereals, irises.
An interesting variant with astilba in combination with a function and a shield.
Important! When making a flower garden, it is better to avoid symmetrical plantings. Blurred contours look more interesting.
Such, for example, could be approximate planting scheme for a shady flower garden dimensions 3 × 4:
- in the center: philipendula kamchatka; a little further away from it: Thunberg's astilba;
- framed in a circle: hakonehloa, pinnate rogersia (pachysandra can be placed in front of it), hosta, bergenia, black cohosh.
Flower garden (flower bed) with your own hands: 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 place 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 flower bed to look good and attract attention, it must be placed at a distance of 60-250 cm from the place from which you plan to admire it.
Further, it is desirable to sketch the layout of the flowers on paper (preferably millimeter paper), painting over the areas with colored pencils in accordance with the color of the flowers of the plants. So you can better imagine 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 certain pattern.
Usually, beautiful flower beds from perennials, they are supplemented with annual plants, deciduous-decorative 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 ones - 40-90 cm high, 7-9 low ones 20-40 cm high and 16-20 dwarf ones 5-20 cm high, bulbous plants - 20-25 pieces.
In order to explain in an accessible way the principle by which plants should be planted, we will give an example of the design of the simplest round flower bed. In its center, the tallest plants should be planted. Take, for example, the delphinium. Along the edges, as a frame, plant undersized flowers of the same species. It can be, for example, balsam, pansies, linen. Fill the voids between the center and the edge with plants that bloom throughout summer period: petunias, marigolds, begonias, pelargoniums.
Did you know? Marigolds and lavender planted along the edge will help protect the flower bed from pests.
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 compile 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, lilacs, oriental wintering, aquilegia, arabis. In summer, decorative are: rose, lavender, delphinium, mallow, foxglove, kosmeya, eringium, oregano. In autumn, 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, a flower bed can be decorated with dried flowers from stonecrop, wintering, eryngium and lightning. 
When planning 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. Sredneroslye are planted in the middle part. This category includes tulips, digitalis, pyrethrum. In the background, tall perennials should take their place - chrysanthemums, septembers, stonecrops. Between them you can plant a cuff and gray fescue.
More interesting flower beds will be those that combine perennials and annuals.
Important! Since the duration of flowering of perennial plants is on average one month, at least seven types of plants must be planted in a flower bed. It is desirable that three of them bloom at the same time.
Here one of the simple schemes of a flower bed of perennials of continuous flowering, which is suitable for landing near the fence.
Background: stock-roses of various shades, decorative sunflower. In front of them are Icelandic poppies and gaillardia. Through most of the flower bed, let the line cardinal lobelia. Plant three varieties in front of her blue flowers, for example, catnip, Poskharsky's bell, katananhe. As well as red accents in the form of gravel. Add stonecrop and geyhera.
Everything that you manage to do with your own hands always brings more pleasure than what is purchased 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 diagrams with a description.
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Leafing through glossy landscape design magazines, 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 needed.
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How to break a flower garden: options for resolving the issue
If you do not have sufficient knowledge about how to set up a flower garden in a summer cottage, but you nevertheless take up its creation with enthusiasm, the result may not meet your expectations. What is the way out of the situation?
Spring riot of colors
There are several options:
- enroll in landscape design courses, pay a tidy sum for them, spend several months and gain basic knowledge about plants, soil and flower beds. But you still have to create flower beds on your own, making annoying mistakes and mistakes.
- choose a simpler method that 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 complicated as it seems at first glance, if you have ready-made schemes and designs for flower beds. After studying them, you can do “drawing 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 summer cottage, it is necessary to determine the place for the flower bed. The flower bed can be different: a rabatka or a mixborder along the path, an arabesque flower bed against the backdrop of a lawn, a rustic or romantic flower bed in a shady corner of the garden.
The forms of flower beds are also different: geometric and free. Which flower garden to choose - it all depends on the landscape design of the site and your preferences.
Flower garden-mixborder
On the plan of the flower garden, it is necessary to note the illuminated and shady places. This is very important for right choice range of plants and creation for them optimal conditions development and flowering.
These rules must be followed when forming a flower garden of continuous flowering, or, as it is also called, the “flower garden of four seasons”. These flower beds look beautiful all year round.
Flower garden of four seasons - the dream of any summer resident
The right combination of perennials makes it possible to contemplate the blooming splendor of plants for a whole season - from spring to late autumn. If you supplement the flower garden with conifers and some species tall herbs, as well as a periwinkle or tenacious border, the flower bed will remain elegant even in winter.
When choosing plants for a continuous flowering flower bed, 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 sense of harmony, we get the exact 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 appear during flowering. blooming in spring undersized perennials (snowdrops, primroses, muscari, hyacinths) are placed in the foreground.
Four Seasons Flower Garden
Plants of medium height (tulips, pyrethrums, digitalis) will occupy the middle part of the flower bed. The background will remain behind the high summer and autumn perennials - stonecrops, chrysanthemums, septembers. Herbs are planted between them - a cuff and a 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 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 decorating a garden with your own hands, 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. This flower garden will find a place in any corner of your garden. The color scheme of the flower bed is red-crimson and silver.
Sketch of the flower garden "Piece of Cake"
Scheme of the flower garden "piece of cake"
1. In the corner of the flower bed we plant a daylily of dark red color "Ed Murray" - 3 bushes.
2. Silvery leaves of wormwood "Silver Queen" will emphasize the beauty of velvet daylily flowers and create a favorable background for geyhera - 4 copies.
3. Macedonian corostavnik, variety "Mars Midget" dark red - 6 copies.
4. Geichera with burgundy leaves - 6 bushes.
5. The wide part of the flower bed will be decorated with silver leaves of the chistets. 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 require a lot of sun. The background for this flower bed will be a fence, a blank wall or a group of coniferous plants.
Sketch of a "flower garden for the impatient"
Scheme "Flower garden for the impatient"
1. In the background of the flower garden we plant stock-roses of white, red and yellow color.
2. decorative sunflower, with inflorescences-baskets of bright yellow color, will complement the background.
3. Icelandic poppy will make the flower bed even brighter with its flowers.
4. Cardinal lobelia will lie in a red ribbon in the flower garden.
Blue-blue accents in the flower garden will place:
6. Kotovnik.
7. Poskharsky's bell.
8. Blue katananhe.
Bright red spots will create:
9. Feuerbal gravel.
10. Stonecrop "Matrona" will please with its splendor in the fall.
11. Blood red geyhera leaves will decorate the flower bed until frost.
Mixed flower beds
A flower garden of continuous flowering can be made more vivid and 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, we plant annuals in the free places 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 have faded, for example, bulbs.
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 scheme and flowering time, we “write” annuals with pencils. Thus, you can perfectly match the combination of colors in a mixed flower bed.
Scheme of a bright flower bed of annuals and perennials
Do you love everything bright? I offer you a project of a flower garden, which will become a real decoration of your dacha. It is so simple that even a "teapot" can create it. The color scheme is red, orange, pink and purple tones, and, of course, the bright green of the leaves.
Bright summer flowerbed
In the background of the flower beds we plant perennial heliotrope tree (1), the middle tier of the flower bed forms Sander's tobacco with scarlet flowers (2) and terry bright orange marigolds (3). In the parterre, the flowerbeds gave place to the pink New Guinean balsam (4).
Floral arrangement with dahlias
Although dahlias are perennials that require special care: digging up in the fall and storing in the basement in the winter, many gardeners really like them. Bright and expressive, dahlias will perfectly fit into a summer flower bed. The peak of flowering of these beauties falls on 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 delphinium hybrid (2) and a monard (3). Bottom part flowerbeds are assigned to the common dubrovnik (4).
To make this flower bed look well-groomed, it is necessary to regularly remove wilted flowers of monarda and dahlias. If, after the first flowering, all flower stalks are removed from the delphinium, 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 make a dark corner of the garden brighter, or you are annoyed bright flowers, you can use the 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 mollucella (1), tailed amaranth (2), large snapdragon (3), but they created a stunning effect.
Create an illusion with a flower garden
If your site has a dry stream, plants are planted on its banks. You will probably be wondering: how to properly break a flower garden around a dry stream to create the illusion of cool murmuring water? Here is one of options.
The stream bed is filled with large round pebbles. The stones in the center are painted blue. You can use glass beads 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 stream...
Bamboo leaf (1) will give the composition a sense of volume. If there is no bamboo, we can replace it with an ostrich. Bearded iris hybrids (2) will find their place on the bank of the stream, next to them lobelia (3) and creeping tenacious (4) will feel good. Downstream, between the boulders, lush bushes of the Poskharsky bluebell (5), hybrids of obrieta (6) and large-leaved bruner (7) will grow. Bright greenery will be added by awl-leaved bryozoan (8). The whole composition will be completed by a tenacious creeping red (9).