Flower beds on the site. How beautiful it is to plant flowers in the country: rules, schemes, possible compositions

Flower beds and flower beds on the plot are intended primarily for aesthetic pleasure. But besides this, they play another important role: acting as a continuation of the house, flower arrangements allow you to visually combine the appearance of the building with the vegetation of the garden into a single whole. Knowing the secrets of landscape designers how to decorate a flower bed will allow any gardener to create flower arrangements in their suburban area, which, in addition to aesthetic appeal, will create an atmosphere of harmony and comfort.

General rules for creating a beautiful flower bed

Thinking through the design of a flower bed with your own hands, it is advisable to be guided by the basic rules of landscape design.

Rule # 1 - the integrity of the picture

A garden is a picture that is made up of a collection of landscape compositions. The task of the gardener: to bring each of the elements of the landscape to perfection. Senseless planting of plants around the site will not give the desired result. Therefore, not being able to green the entire territory, for a start it is worth ennobling only a small part of it, but making it complete.

Beautiful harmonious flower beds are created by combining mixed plantings, in which there are both annuals and perennials, both flowering and ornamental plants.

Rule # 2 - placing plants by height

The principle of multi-tiering provides for the placement of ground cover and low-growing plants in the foreground, which act as a frame for beautifully flowering medium-sized flowers.

Medium-sized perennials, acting as flower garden soloists, will become the center of attention. Tapeworms look most impressive against the background of tall plants with decorative foliage or flowers in contrasting shades. Combinations of both tall perennials and their medium-tall accompanists, harmonizing in color and shape, are also successful.

Quite unpretentious and at the same time having an expressive texture of leaves and a variety of colors, ground covers that can quickly fill empty spaces are ideal for decorating flower beds in the country.

Rule #3 - flower garden architecture

Depending on the landscape features of the site and its size, the design of flower beds can be made both in the form of flat compositions, and slightly raised and framed with decorative tiles or stones.

The forms of flower beds can be very diverse, starting with free ones that do not have pronounced borders and ending with original curly and wavy

In order to give an unusual shape to the flower garden, you can use any household items: barrels and baskets, old cars, boats and even beds.

In order to arrange a flower bed in front of the house, which will become an expressive decoration of the garden and will delight with blooming splendor throughout the season, you must first draw its plan on paper. This creative work will allow not only to organize thoughts in the head, but also to visualize the images of flower arrangements, creating the most successful combinations.

It is advisable to use colored pencils for work: bright colors of spots of schematic images of group and point solitary plantings in a flower garden will allow you to correctly distribute plants with different colors and flowering periods

According to the plan, terry mallows (1) will be placed in the background next to the ornamental sunflower Mishka (2), in front of it are poppy bushes (3) and St. John's wort (4). Lobelia ribbon (5) will add dynamism to the composition. Lilac-blue accents will be placed by catnip (6), bell (7) and Kalanchoe (8). The foreground will be occupied by gravel (9), stonecrop (10) and aquilegia (11)

The drawn up scheme is only a kind of rough sketch: the final decision on the optimal placement of flowers will come in the process of planting.

Schemes of the original design of flower beds

By painstakingly selecting and combining flowering plants, you can create many variations of flower beds in which beauty will reign from the first days of spring until frost. Ready-made designs of flower beds will greatly facilitate the process of creating a flower bed.

Option #1 - central flower bed

The scheme of the central flower bed is one of the simplest.

The shape of the flower garden has the form of concentric circles: the center is filled with dark-leaved cannes (1), which act as soloists of the composition, then green-leaved cannes (2), decorative leafy gnafalium (3) and snapdragons (4) are planted in a circle

Option # 2 - "Viennese Flower"

One of the options for how to beautifully arrange a round flower bed is to create a composition in the shape of a flower. A flower bed, decorated in the form of a six-leaf flower, looks especially elegant and festive, and therefore it is desirable to take a central place in the garden for its arrangement.

The center of the composition is the most beautiful white levkoy (1), the frame is a curb planting of alpine forget-me-not (2) against the background of lawn grass (3). The outer contour of the ornament is created by violas (4), primroses (5), zinnias (6), framed by decorative leafy variegated beauties alternatera (7) and achirantes (8)

Option #3 - "Fancy Pattern"

A round flower bed, decorated with many repeating undulating elements, which are decorated with a colorful group of sun-loving perennials, allows you to create a real parade of flowers on a sunny stage.

In the center of the flower bed there is a squat chamerops (1) with a chic crown of fan leaves, dahlia-colored zinnia (2) hiding in its shadow, the contrasting background of which was coleus (3). Solitary plantings of dracaena (4) in combination with group plantings of pelargonium (5) and begonia (6) create a bizarre pattern of curls that looks spectacular against the backdrop of lawn grass (7)

Option # 4 - "Piece of cake" in the corner of the garden

A flower garden of this form will find a place in any corner of the garden.

A plant composition in burgundy-red tones, bordered by a silver edge, occupying only a couple of meters of area, will become an elegant decoration for the garden.

The corner of the flower bed is filled with three daylily bushes with maroon flowers (1), silvery leaves of wormwood (2) act as a contrasting background for them. The center of the composition is the bushes of bright red geyhera (3), the bushes of the Macedonian korostavnik (4) act as corner elements, the silvery edge is the chistets (5)

The proposed schemes are only a guideline: in the absence of a desire or opportunity to purchase a particular plant, it can always be replaced with a more pleasant flower, presented in the same color scheme and having similar flowering periods.

A suburban area without flowers is a banal garden, little adapted for recreation. It is the flower beds that turn the cottage into a desirable place for spending weekends in the summer. Creating a flower bed is a creative process, an occupation that brings satisfaction to those involved in it. The time spent and the physical effort invested are justified by the end result.

Where to begin

Planning- the first stage in the creation of flower beds at their summer cottage. First, the entire territory is inspected, after which a place for flower beds and their sizes are determined. As a rule, they are located in the most viewed places, in recreation areas, near artificial and natural reservoirs.

3D layout of the suburban area

Some types of flower beds are used to delimit the site and are arranged, for example, between a parking lot and a sports field, between a patio and outbuildings.

Summer cottage project

What you need to consider when planning flower beds in the country:

Land area;
Architectural style of buildings;
Yard dimensions;
How much land will be occupied by other plantations: fruit trees, berry bushes and vegetable crops.

There are several types of flower beds. The main and most popular of them are border, monoklumba. When the location and type of the flower bed is determined, the area allotted for it is fenced off with a border that will not allow the soil to spill onto the path or lawn, dug up and fertilized. Preparation is recommended to be carried out in the fall, so that by spring the soil is already ready for planting. If the flower garden is arranged in the spring, the site should be prepared in 2-3 weeks before sowing seeds or planting seedlings.

How to make a mixborder

In the mixborder, flowers of different types and habits are mixed. Annuals and perennials, shrubs, herbaceous plants and small trees can coexist here. It is believed that this type of flower garden is broken by a fence or wall, but this is not necessary. It looks great at the border of the garden against the backdrop of tall trees, it can serve as a dividing strip between different areas of a summer cottage.

Mixborder with dahlias

The basic rule for creating a mixborder is that plants are planted “by growth”. In the foreground of the flower bed, undersized flowers are placed, behind them are representatives of the fauna of medium height, and at the very end the tallest plants are planted.

Flowers are selected not only by height, but also by flowering periods. Each tier should contain plants that bloom at different times of the year. This will ensure the elegance of the flower garden throughout the season.

Mixborder with roses

The mixborder looks very nice against the background of coniferous trees: thuja, firs, pines. In this case, evergreen boxwood, creeping junipers and dwarf spruces are included in the flower garden, which will complement the style of the mixborder.

Helpful advice. Perennials with a strong root system should preferably be protected with edging tape, which will help control their growth and protect other, less hardy plants.

Scheme of a continuous flowering mixborder

Border and discount

Discount scheme

Standard suburban areas have an area of 6 acres. In such a space it is difficult to place a house, an orchard, and also to allocate space for a flower garden. An excellent way out is a flower border planted along the paths. Its width does not exceed 30-50 cm, it can be monochrome or mixed, arranged on one or both sides of the garden path. The basic principle of creating a border is the use of bright, with a long flowering period and a lot of annuals.

Perennial flower border

If space allows, you can make a discount. It is also arranged in the form of a strip, but much wider than the curb, and there are always several types of plants in it, and they are planted at a certain interval. Thanks to this approach, one plot is repeated in the discount, and it is similar to a regular flower bed.

One-sided discount

Advice. Rabatka can be arranged from the side of the street between the fence and the road. A well-groomed, neat flower bed in front of the house will become the hallmark of a summer cottage.

Paved courtyard landscaping

A yard covered with paving slabs or paving stones is very convenient, as it is easier to keep it clean even in slush. But with the design of the paved area, problems may arise. Mobile gardening comes to the rescue: flowers are grown in flowerpots of various sizes and hanging planters.

Flower pots are placed along the curbs, at the entrance to the house, near the gate. Thanks to this approach, original flower beds are created that are easily updated depending on the situation. For example, flowerpots are easy to move if necessary to make room for parking or a family celebration.

Original idea - flowers in hanging pots

Another way to green a paved yard is to start laying the tiles by stepping back from the fence. 50-60 cm. The freed up space is used to create a floral border. This method helps to achieve two goals: to revive an empty yard and mask the fence, the walls of outbuildings.

Stone flower bed with thujas and annuals

Advice. If the courtyard is very small, it is better to plant climbing plants along the fence, and undersized bright annuals in the foreground. A narrow strip of land planted with flowers will create the illusion that the courtyard does not end immediately after the paving, but the garden just begins behind it.

Hydrangea along the fence

The use of stones in the design of the cottage

An original way to bring exclusiveness to the landscape of a summer cottage is to use natural stones in its design. There are two main types of flower beds with the use of stones: rockeries and rock gardens. The difference between them is that in rockeries the emphasis is on boulders, and in rock gardens on flowers and plants.

Alpine hill - harmony of stones and vegetation

Rockery - emphasis on stones

How to make a rockery

So that weeds do not germinate in rockeries - we lay geotextiles

On a flat area, large boulders are placed in a pre-planned order. The largest of them dig into the soil, making the composition look more natural. After that, stones of smaller dimensions are laid out in small groups.

In the creation of rockeries, it is desirable to use stones of the same breed: sandstone, granite, slate, limestone, tuff. The space between the boulders is covered with sand, gravel or crushed stone of small fractions. It is recommended to make the background bedding in a color that contrasts with the stone blocks.

Plants are planted last. They should not dominate in rockeries, so it is better to plant hardy species that do not attract much attention: ornamental onions, twigs (Spanish gorse), pampas grass, gray fescue or other cereals for the garden.

How to make rock garden

Stones are also used to create an alpine slide. They are laid out on a pre-filled earthen hill, and suitable vegetation is planted in the gaps: saxifrage, tenacious, stakhis and other ground cover plants.

Bright creeping and undersized perennials are also used: obrietta, rezuha, carnation grass, gentian and others. Creeping juniper, dwarf pines, and boxwood look very good in rock gardens.

The height of the slide can be different, from half a meter to 2 meters. It all depends on the size of the suburban area. If the rock garden is low, it is better to make it against the background of coniferous plants, for example, firs, thujas.

Advice. To prevent the germination of weeds, the area under the rock garden is covered with geotextiles. Holes are made in it in the places of planting, and the rest of the area is covered with stones.

The same rule applies when creating rockeries.

If there is no time to care for the flower garden

It so happened that visiting the dacha is not regular. Because of this, care for flower beds is not always carried out on time. Helps out in this situation.

It should be noted that he has very little in common with an ordinary lawn. Firstly, he does not need a constant haircut, and secondly, he is very smart. The Moorish meadow (or lawn) consists of 70% of cereals and field grasses and 30% of unpretentious garden flowers. The flowering of the lawn continues all summer, so it looks great throughout the summer season.

The main plants used in the creation of the Moorish meadow:

field poppy;
Cornflower;
Echinacea;
Scabious;
Tansy;
Nigella;
Decorative bow.

Attention. When selecting plants for a flowering lawn, their habitus should be taken into account. All of them should be about the same height and none of them should dominate.

Monolumba - stylish and simple

Traditional lawns are easy to enliven with a mono-flower - a small flower meadow on a green sheared carpet. In the center of the lawn, the soil is removed along with the grass, the site is fenced with a flexible border, and the interior space is filled with fertile soil mixture. In the resulting "window" any flowers suitable for the country landscape are planted.

Mono-flower with tulips

If bulbous (tulips, daffodils) are used, after the end of their flowering, bright annuals can be planted in a mono-flower: petunia, viola, tagetes, zinnia, celosia and others.

Bright spots of flower beds and flower beds on the site are not only a way to decorate the site. They perfectly distract attention from some problem areas. By the way, this can also be guided when choosing a place. We will talk further about how to make flower beds and flower beds with your own hands in the country, in the courtyard of a private house. This is not an easy task, of course, but it does not require knowledge of higher mathematics.

What are

First of all, let's find out what is the difference between flower beds and flower beds. The flowerbed has clear boundaries and shape: circle, oval, square. Most often, it is separated from the rest of the site and raised above it. We most often observe this type of landscape design in parks and on the streets.

This is a flower bed. It has a clear, strictly defined shape and geometrically correctly arranged plants.

A flower garden is any place for planting plants of an arbitrary shape. It happens with a fence, and sometimes without. Flower boxes hanging on a fence or a wall are a flower garden, plants planted in old galoshes are also a flower spot on a lawn and a ribbon along the path are all flower beds.

The terms have been sorted out a bit. Now about what they are. They are distinguished primarily by the time of flowering:

According to the type of planted plants, there are annuals, perennials, and there are mixed ones. In some, only one type of plant is planted. They are called monoflowers or monoflowers.

They are raised, they are also called high, they are multi-tiered. Their device consists of several stages: first of all, a fence is built, then the earth is poured into the finished form and plants are planted.

With theory, let's move on to practice. We start with where you can make flower beds and flower beds with your own hands.

Where to do

When the yard is spacious it's just fine. Find the most viewed place and set up a flower garden there. What to do if the whole territory has already been developed, but you want to plant flowers? You can always find a place. For example, near your house, the area is concreted or lined with slabs, stone, etc. At the wall of the house, you can make an excellent raised or even multi-tiered flower bed with your own hands. And no need to break the cover. A fence made of brick or stone is built right on it. It is advisable to put them on the solution, and then cover them from the inside with waterproofing impregnation (bituminous mastic) so that when watering, water does not flow onto the track. Then you can fill the soil and plant flowers.

Break flower beds along the fences. This is a common way to decorate, for example, a long driveway to the house. But this can also be done in different ways. Here, as well as near, a high flower bed looks better.

High flower bed from boards. The construction will be inexpensive, and the view is solid

You can break a flower bed in front of the gate. Street beds must be durable. Therefore, stone fences are usually used for their execution: just in case. If desired, you can make longline flower beds. They are more difficult to build, but much more attractive than flat ones.

Street multi-tiered (multi-level) flowerbed of complex shape

Even if the yard is surrounded by walls on all sides, you can still find a place for flowers: Hang on the walls, in pots or in the form of a flowering wall, put a rack, etc. Flower beds in the courtyard of a private house with your own hands can be made from everything and everywhere. It is only important not to make a mistake with the style: it must match the design of all buildings. Some ideas in the photo gallery.

You don't need a lot of space and can be moved. Portable flower bed is convenient

You can make a flower garden in the country near the tree. They already belong to the category of garden. Don't want it to be banal? Come up with an interesting fence.

What and how to make a fence

The most common fence for a flower bed is brick, wild stone, boulders. You can make a building out of brick in a strict "ceremonial" manner. Boulders and wild stone are already more intimate, non-standard fences.

Since they have a decent weight, a foundation is often made under a brick or stone fence for a flower bed. Not if one or two rows fit, but if there are four or more rows. If the device is on a concreted site, you can do without a foundation at all, but if a flower bed is broken on a lawn or soil, then it is advisable to do it.

It is not even necessary to fasten two rows of stone or brick with mortar. They can simply be laid out one on top of the other, covered from the inside and covered with earth. Brick beds made in this way will often have to be corrected: bricks can “move out” from their place

First of all, the sod is removed on the marked area. If you plan to make a high flower bed, dig a groove along the perimeter, about 20 cm deep, and 5-10 cm wider than the planned fence in width. This ditch is filled with crushed stone, rammed, spilled with a liquid cement-sand mortar. For 1 part of M400 cement, 4-5 parts of pure sand are taken, mixed and poured with water to a state of sour cream. Crushed stone is shed with this semi-liquid solution. When the concrete sets - you have to wait a few days - you can lay out the border for the flower beds.

How to make a brick or stone border

DIY flowerbeds and flower beds made in a stone and brick fence are the most expensive in the device, but also the most durable. They will last for several years with no problems.

Stones or bricks are placed on a cement-sand mortar, similar to that used for crushed stone, but thicker. There should not be much mortar between the bricks - 5-8 mm. If you are laying cobblestones or natural stone, it is easier to lay them “dry” first, choosing the dimensions, and then transfer them with mortar.

A few ideas on how to arrange stone borders for flower beds and flower beds in the photo gallery below.

This is a border for a cobblestone flower bed. The technique used is different - a roller is formed from a semi-dry solution, small stones are stuck into it

If you don’t need to raise the plantings so much, and you only want to mark the boundaries of the area planted with flowers, but you are afraid that if you just dig in the brick, it will fall, then you can dig a trench, fill it with rubble, and insert limestone into the rubble (stone sawn into plates , it can be found in the section selling materials for the exterior of the house) or standing up to put bricks. Spill a liquid cement-sand mortar around the installed elements of the fence. After two or three days, when the concrete sets, you can continue to work: fill in the fertile soil, but you can’t load the curb or step on it for about a month: it takes so much time for it to gain strength.

By the same principle, you can make a frame for a flower bed with your own hands from slate or tiles cut into strips. A flower bed can be made from metal or asbestos slate. There are trimmings left after the roofing device - use them. Here's what might work.

Photo of a slate flower bed - such a fence looks good

from wood

Making a fence for a flower bed made of wood is easier: it does not weigh that much. On the other hand, it is less durable. Flower beds and flower beds made from wood can stand for several seasons. Then you have to restore or redo them. It is used very rarely for front flower beds, but in a country house or near a private house, a flower garden fenced with a wooden border is original and stylish. Especially if it echoes the design style of buildings on the site.

You can use wood in any form for decorating country flower beds. They make flowerbeds from boards, round timber of small diameter (small logs), block house (boards, convex on one side, similar to a log) and any other wooden remnants. You can even saw a dried tree into chocks, bury / hammer them into the ground, making such an unusual flower bed.

Birch woods - a fence for a flower garden turned out to be an excellent idea. An interesting idea for a high flower bed - a well is made of scraps of logs.

How to make a wooden border? Find a log of small diameter, saw it into chocks of different lengths and split them in half. You will get blanks, as in the photo on the left. They are laid on a flat surface with the convex side down one next to the other. They take a flexible thick wire and fasten the wire to the flat side of the pieces of wood with staples from a construction stapler or bent nails. One wire is nailed at the bottom, the second at the top. It turns out a flexible border made of wood, which can enclose a flower garden of any shape (pictured right).

So that the wood does not lose its attractiveness and does not rot, it is treated with protective impregnations. They can simultaneously give it color, or they can be colorless. From such pieces of wood collected in a ribbon, you can make flower beds with your own hands of any shape. You dig a shallow groove, a little wider than your fence, insert a fence for a flower bed there and sprinkle it with earth, tamp it down.

From boards and timber

In our country, one of the most inexpensive building materials is wood. Therefore, they build a lot of it and often. They make a fence or a fence for flower beds from wood. The easiest way to fence a flower bed with boards. For support, you will need several bars - not very thick, but wide. Approximately 50*150 mm and edged board 20 mm thick. Choose its width yourself so that several pieces installed on the edge will give you the required height.

Impregnate the wood with protective impregnations, when it dries, you can begin work. First install the support bars. They can be sharpened at one end and carefully hammered in without damaging the upper surface (place a piece of a bar and hit it), or you can dig a hole about 50 cm deep, install a beam in it, bury and compact the earth around. Bars are installed in increments of 1-1.5 meters, depending on how wide the flower garden will be. The wider and higher it is, the greater the mass will have to be kept, therefore, supports are more often placed.

Boards are nailed to the exposed supports. They can be stuffed from the inside and then the support bars will be visible, or from the outside. In the second option, only a wall of boards will be visible. The joints of the boards should fall on the bars.

Flowerbeds from boards can be made in a variety of shapes. Even in the form of a pyramid. Some interesting ideas are below.

And this is how to make a flower bed in the form of a pyramid

Made of plastic

There are many types of ready-made fences for flower beds and flower beds made of plastic or plastic. They have special legs that sink into the ground along the edge of the planted area.

But it's not about them, but about flowerbeds from improvised materials. For example, you can make a decent fence for a flower bed out of plastic bottles.

They are selected by volume and color. This will make the fence look better. Then the necks are cut at the same level and stuck into the ground. This is one mounting option for creating a low curb. The second one will be much higher. It can be used when fudge taller plants. In this case, they take a wooden beam, to it at a certain distance, so that the bottles are close to one another, the lids are nailed. Bottles are screwed into the caps. To make such a plastic flower garden fence more stable, it is pierced through with wire closer to the bottoms and closer to the narrowing at the neck. The finished section of the fence is installed and fixed on the ground.

Despite the fact that the material is junk, if everything is done carefully, such a fence looks decent, pleasant, nice. Photos of fences for flower beds and flower beds made of plastic bottles are in the photo below.

Couldn't get past... a fence made of old bicycle wheels. Original flower beds can be made from any junk. If there is talent, of course ...

Old bicycle wheels can decorate your country house. How? Make a flower garden fence out of them. A flower bed of wheels is cool ...

Original and unusual flower beds and flower beds

Sometimes you will be amazed at what people manage to make original, unusual, and, most importantly, beautiful things. So it is in the design of flower beds. Well, I myself would never have guessed that an old chest or galoshes, a hat can be turned into a flower garden or flowerpot for plants. See for yourself - the photos don't lie.

Tire beds

Completely unattractive car tires turn into beautiful flower beds. Tires are cut, the edges are polished with a grinder with an emery nozzle. The resulting flowerpots are washed with soapy water and dried: the plants will not develop well if you do not wash the machine oil, gasoline and other similar substances that get inside.

After drying, it is painted. You can paint a tire (tire) with ordinary oil paint, only the surface must be fat-free, dry and clean. She keeps for several years. There are special paints for tires. They are much more expensive - they are made for styling tires. After the paint dries, you can install a ready-made bed of tires and fill it with soil, plant plants. How you can make a flower garden from tires with your own hands, or rather, how to arrange it, see below (the photo gallery scrolls automatically, if you need to stop, click on the picture).

To break a flower bed of perennials in the country, you do not need to get a higher education or be a certified specialist in landscape design.

What to plant - onions or perennial flowers?

Not everything in the garden should be for the stomach, you need to leave room for "beauty" - just for the soul. A flowerbed of continuous flowering of perennials is easy to decorate even the most nondescript area, giving it a unique charm. Roses, geraniums, carnations, poppies and asters will grow season after season in the same place, without requiring special attention.

The question that every novice gardener should understand is the choice of plants for a perennial flower garden. From practical experience, the first flower bed should be made small and planted with unpretentious flowers that grow well under the bright sun.

A flower bed is a bright element of the garden, so it makes no sense to break it in the far corner of the site or hide it under the shade of trees. The best solution for creating a perennial flower bed will be a place that is clearly visible from all sides.

Multi-level flower beds (with tall exhibits in the background and short ones in the front) are usually placed near the walls of a house, fence or hedge. Whereas in the center of the site, a constantly flowering flower bed of perennials can either form all kinds of combinations of plants, or be decorated with only one species.

Flowerbed of perennials for beginners

Flower garden-puzzle of the most popular flowers - assemble it yourself!

Tall representatives of the flora for the center of the composition:

Roses, astilbe, lilies, asters, clarikia, peonies, black cohosh, Hassler's cleoma, delphinium, ornamental onions, phloxes, gelenium, Ruselovsky's gooseberry, multi-leaved lupine, clematis, hosta, hydrangea, rudbeckia, liatris spiky, poppy, meadow bells, columnar ratibida , echinacea, daylily and many others.

Medium-sized perennials for a modest addition:

Tulips, anemone, irises, fragrant rue, dyeing navel, aquilegia, beautiful small-flowered, mountain cornflower, hybrid catnip, magnificent dicentra, oak sage, gravel, yarrow ptarmica, geyhera, bergenia, narrow-leaved lavender, primrose, fern, quadrangular primrose, etc.

Ground cover plants for edging flower beds and filling gaps:

Byzantine chistets, acena, small periwinkle, creeping tenacious, Renard's geranium, obrieta, Carpathian bell, carnation-grass, lobularia, spring umbilical, waldsteinia, lungwort, small periwinkle, veronica and others.

Tall soloists are recommended to be planted separately, but it is better to plant small flowers in groups, several copies at once. At the same time, in a flower bed viewed from different angles, higher individuals should be planted closer to the center, and low ones along the edges.

Advice. So that bald spots do not gape in the flower bed and weeds do not grow, plant the plants as close to each other as possible, but not too crowded.

Do you want to achieve continuous flowering? Learn about the features of each flower, write down the flowering time on a piece of paper and make your own combination scheme of a beautiful club of perennials, in which some plants will bloom in early spring, others in the middle of summer, and still others will bloom until late autumn.

Of course, to think over the ideal design of a luxurious flower garden is a special task. But, fortunately, there are proven schemes for perennial flower beds.

Perennial flower beds - the best planting patterns

Several options for the location of plants in flower beds - schematic symbols with the names of perennials.

Scheme No. 1 "The most uncomplicated"

In this simple and attractive composition of long flowering, such unpretentious perennials were used as:

panicled pink or purple phlox. The best time for planting is September or mid-March, grows well in well-drained, sandy soil, blooms from mid-July to autumn;
pink astilba. Flowering of different varieties lasts, as a rule, from the end of June to mid-August, the plant is responsive to regular feeding and loosening;
purple-silvery daylily. The plants are planted in the spring in a rich in organic matter and well-drained, loose loam with an optimal acidity of 6-6.5 pH;
geyhera with leaves of silver gray and lavender shade. Prefers light soils without stagnant water, blooms from May to July;
geranium splendid. It blooms luxuriantly from mid-summer to the end of the season, forming a lush bush with light purple flowers).

Scheme No. 2 "An example of a flower bed of perennials that bloom in the first year"

stock-rose "Pleniflora" with dense double corollas of yellow, salmon-pink and red-purple flowers (“Pleniflora” is not a rose, but a giant mallow that blooms profusely in sunny and moist areas of the garden from mid-summer to the first cold weather);
ten-petalled sunflower(a very valuable variety that blooms from mid-August to mid-October, grows well and has healing properties);
Icelandic poppy(Ideal for an ever-flowering perennial bed due to continuous flowering from May until autumn);
Hypericum "Hidcote"("An odorless" species of St. John's wort pleases with yellow inflorescences in a flower bed from June to September);
lobelia cardinalis(a plant with a beautiful leaf plate, blood-red flowers adorn from July to October);
catnip "Nepeta faassenii"(blooms for a long time with lavender-like flowers, starting in May);
bluebell "Campanula poscharskyana"(the crystal ringing of these delicate and fragile lilac-blue flowers can be heard from June to September);
katananche "Blue Cupid"(inflorescences-baskets of a muted sky shade can be observed all summer long);
perennial gravel(in the composition of a long-flowering flower bed, the herbaceous plant of the Feuerbal variety does not solo, but rather complements the flower garden from May to July);
sedum "Matrona"(strong bush with beautiful flowers remains decorative until the first snowfall);
Heuchera "Miracle"(a spectacular bush with an unusual shade of foliage is decorated with pink flowers from June to mid-summer).

Scheme No. 3 "Pink-purple beautiful flower bed"

mountaineer changeable with bluish-green delicate leaves, this large perennial shrub blooms with a "white cloud" in late June and remains in bloom until the end of summer;
monarda hybrid creates a romantic mood in the country when, during flowering, its pink flowers begin to exude a divine aroma;
astrantia "Claret", its small, numerous flowers-umbrellas of rich red-wine color, blooming in mid-summer, look luxurious against the background of dark purple leaves;
Bergenia(saxifrage tolstolitsnaya) pleases the eye from May to July with paniculate-thyroid inflorescences on long pedicels .;
Phlox "Dragon" with its smoky silver-violet petals, it looks especially attractive in the composition of a sunny flower bed;
Heuchera "Obsidian" hybrid with dark purple-violet, almost black leaves blooms in June;
geranium "Compactum" grows very luxuriantly, adding blood-red tones to the flower garden;
Sedum telephium or hare cabbage, varieties "Matrona" blooms in mid-summer with pale pink inflorescences;
bell "Loddon Anna" with pale purple broad-pyramidal inflorescences fill the garden with a delicate aroma from July to September.

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Creating a flower bed from perennials: land preparation and planting

Having decided on the ingredients for the flower bed, it's time to start preparing the soil for the flower garden. This is the most uncreative and time-consuming business in creating a perennial flower bed. But, at the same time, the most necessary thing, because well-prepared land is the foundation of a future flower bed.

You need to prepare the ground after you draw a sketch of the future flower garden. It is necessary to choose plants not only according to the timing of flowering, but also according to their similar requirements for light, moisture and soil - this will greatly facilitate the care of the flower bed. (For example, in the shade and semi-shady areas in dry areas with fertile and loose soil, they grow well: geyher and Goryanka, lilies of the valley and cuffs, primroses and phloxes, irises and geraniums, periwinkles and anemones).

How to make a beautiful flower bed of perennials?

Start by removing the old sod with a shovel. Remove all weeds with roots and reanimate the soil by diluting clay soil with sand, and light soil with clay soil or concrete. Then add compost (this will make the soil more fertile) and loosen the soil as deep as possible with a pitchfork, mixing clay, sand and compost. Add the necessary fertilizers and start planting seedlings.

Please note that in a flower bed of any scheme, approximately 1 sq. M is planted:

10 pieces of ground cover plants;
7 pieces undersized;
5 pieces of medium height;
and 1-3 tall plants.

Now you know how to arrange a flower bed of perennials.

Flowerbeds of classical forms are less and less common in landscape design. In the landscape gardens of our days, island flower beds with plant species that are asymmetrical in height and planting, arranged on lawns and lawns, are more appropriate. No less popular are multi-level vertical plantings. Raised flower beds planted in flower beds of original forms, mini-flower beds in old stumps and cascades of rectangular stands bordered by broken bricks also look interesting.

Tip: If possible, the shape of the flower bed should be combined with the shape of the nearest building, such as a gazebo or porch.

Round flower bed of perennials

If we talk about the simplest method of flower decoration of the site, then this is, of course, a round flower bed of perennials, which is very easy to do with your own hands. It is very important to choose the right size. Since on a large area a small flower garden will look ridiculous, and a flower bed that is too voluminous within a limited space will be poorly visible.

Important! When decorating a garden with a perennial flower bed (for a harmonious combination of all elements), be sure to take into account the surrounding situation.

The place for the flower bed should be cleared of weeds, debris and stones. Break large clods of earth, dig the earth and level it with a rake.

To accurately draw a circle, you need to take a peg, drive it into the center of the future flower bed and tie a rope to it, at the other end of which there will be a peg. They need to draw the correct circle of the required size.