Landscaping with landscaping is becoming increasingly popular. I even want to equip a small kindergarten so that it becomes a real "island" of relaxation from the city hustle and bustle. More and more often, instead of garden beds with vegetables, amateur gardeners want to see a picturesque green fantasy garden with decorative shrubs and flower beds. However, not everyone knows how to make a flowerbed in the garden so that it is an ornament throughout the season and is not just a patch of earth “studded” with flower bushes, but has become a real work of garden art.
Types of decorative planting
Before planting a flower bed, you need to carry out a number of preparatory work. You should start with a plan for the future flower garden, where you need to consider the location of ornamental plants, the forms and types of planting, the size of the area occupied by it. There are a lot of types of flower beds . The most common - a flower bed, a discount, a border, a tapeworm, a mixborder. The flowerbed is necessarily placed on an open paved area or lawn and has the appearance of a raised, domed, round or square plot, planted with various colors. Rabatka is an elongated rectangular flower garden located along a path, fence or wall of a house. A border is also an elongated planting of stunted plants, framing a path or paved area. Tapeworm is a refined decorative single plant located on the lawn in the company with several undersized varieties complementing it, which advantageously emphasize its beauty. Finally, a mixborder, a very popular type of planting in European gardens, consists of numerous flowers and ornamental shrubs mixed together.
How to make a flower bed in the country
Choosing the type of flower garden and determining its location, you can proceed with the selection of plants. As a rule, bright annuals or biennials are planted on a round flowerbed located in the middle of the lawn. Flowers have steps: from the very edge they make a border of stunted ones, then rows of higher ones are planted. In the center of the flowerbed, you can plant flowers with tall stems and decorative leaves.
How to make a flower bed? The principle of formation is the same here. Low varieties are planted on the edge, then higher ones, and at the very wall or fence there are tall plants or decorative leafy shrubs. When equipping a discount, be sure to think about ensuring that it does not lose its decorative effect from early spring to autumn. When choosing plants, you should pay attention to the timing of their flowering and arrange the flower bed so that its color is continuous. The same rule should be followed when planting flowers in a mixborder. As for the tapeworm, it is important to choose some exotic look, and this can be not only a flower, but also a small tree or shrub, and select the rest of the plants in the composition for it.
How to make a flowerbed mobile? It is very convenient to arrange the plants so that they can be interchanged, each time coming up with a different color combination and compositional solution. To do this, annual varieties of flowers are planted in small decorative flowerpots and placed in the middle of the site or lawn. Vases can be put on wheels, which will greatly facilitate their movement.
Creative flower beds
A beautiful flower garden in the garden can be designed using the most unexpected materials at hand. The compositions planted in old car tires became widespread. How to make a flowerbed from a tire? To do this, you need a sharp knife, with which we first remove the inner rim adjacent to the disk, then make cuts in the form of pointed or rounded petals in a circle of the lateral surface. We turn them inside out, and the flowerpot in the form of a flower is ready. The tire is painted with bright facade paint, pasted over with glass, in a word they are decorated to your taste.
How to make a flower bed from an old chest of drawers? It is painted with facade water-repellent paint, removed from the legs, installed on a lawn or platform, and drawers are put forward in steps. They put a film in each box, pour a drainage layer and earth and plant bright undersized annuals - petunia, reseda, marigolds, annual phloxes, etc.