Design of flower beds: types and interesting ideas for giving

In order to make the garden plot not only a place for harvesting, many gardeners improve the territory of the cottage with the help of flower beds. They will not only please the eyes of the owners and guests, but also divide the garden into separate zones, thereby organizing the space of the site, and create its own and original design.

The concept of a flower garden is a territory with a visible or conceptual fence, on which ornamental plants grow. Usually in a flowerbed you can find all sorts of variations of flowering plants, but sometimes flowering shrubs or ornamental tree species harmoniously fit into the composition. The arrangement of plants in the flower garden is represented by a geometric symmetric pattern, sometimes asymmetric compositions can be found.

For a competent design of a blooming corner, landscape design skills are necessary, because the decorative element should fit harmoniously into the general appearance of the site. In the flower garden should be combined well in harmony with each other plants. Usually they need similar soil formulations, grooming procedures, and watering frequency.

Modern designers often prefer the types of flower beds, in the preparation of which there are no strict canons. These include naturalistic flowerbed. It is characterized by the use of more than one dozen species of perennial plants. All presented species are divided into 2-3 groups, which combine related plants. The third part of the plant is the basis of the composition, and the rest complement it.

Other types include the following options:

• Flowerbed in classic style is most popular not only in the summer cottage, but also in urban squares. Classic flower bed has a geometric shape, bordered border. For such beds are good annual flowers with low stems, sometimes perennials. Plants that hold the shape well will make the pattern on the flowerbed more distinct.
• The whole season is a beautiful mixborder bloom. This is a complex mixed composition in which some flowering plants are replaced by others. This type is characterized by multi-tiered and use of species with different flowering periods, as well as ornamental shrubs and trees.

• Rabatka call flower garden, which has an elongated shape and is located along other objects in the summer cottage - the walls of the house, walkway or fence. Rabatka is located as asymmetrically on one side of the path, and from two to delineate its contour. Typically, the width of such a bed does not exceed one and a half meters, and its length is divided into separate sections for the convenience of caring for plants.

• To arrange a floral arrangement as a group One or more species of flora can be used, which are planted so that it looks natural. Large groups are planted away, and close you can admire the low bulbous ever-flowering plants.

• Summer residents, areas of which are deprived of the sun, suitable organization of a shadow flower garden. It is characterized by planting shade-tolerant plants. The beauty of a shady flower garden is not in the riot of colors, but in the unusual foliage. The background of the shadow bed is usually drawn up with tall flowers with large leaves, middle perennials are placed in the middle, and creeping types of shade-loving plants can be planted in front.

• Soliter is considered a special type of flower bed.which fits perfectly both in the regular appearance of the garden plot and in the natural composition. For the first variety of landscape, the presence of a single plant on a lawn or a flower that stands out noticeably for its height is characteristic.For a natural flowering corner, the tapeworm is presented as a single plant or shrub, blending harmoniously with the natural environment.

• Modular flower bed got its name from the use of modules in its planning. The module can be round, square or rectangular. On the preliminary plan, the entire plot is divided into these modules, the size of which is 1 m². This approach to the design of flower gardens and the entire landscape allows you to respect the harmonious proportions in the improvement of the site.

• Arabesque usually represents the most elegant place in the garden, located in the front part. The pattern of such a flower bed is quite complex and consists of stones and other minerals in conjunction with plants. For a well-read pattern, plants with a small stem are used for arabesques. Especially fascinating, these flower beds look next to the lawn, but require a lot of attention and care.

In the process of creating and constructing a flower garden, an important role is played by the fencing of the flower bed. Much depends on the choice of material: how strong the fence will be, how it will be in harmony with the plants in the flowerbed and its shape.Since the primary task of fencing is to contain soil, and the secondary is its decorative function, it is logical to fully match the forms of the flowerbed and fence.

A variety of options will be suitable as a fencing material;

• For arranging a flower garden of annuals can be built fence of plant-friendly wooden pegs or twigs. Classic low wood fences emphasize the beauty of a flower bed of any kind.

• Presentable and reliable look flower fences built of stone. In addition to natural and artificial stones, you can also use a brick or paving tiles. Such fencing can line up, as without the use of a binder mixture, and with the use of the solution. Such a fence will serve the gardener for more than a dozen years, but the material is not cheap.

• With help metal barrier structures On the garden plot you can create a wide variety of floral arrangements - from classic to modern. Often for delineating the boundaries of the landscape art object using forged or welded, as well as monolithic structures made of iron or cast iron. Such products are made to order, but for the exclusive will need to pay a lot.
• Lightweight and affordable modern plastic also often attracted to the construction of fences. Due to its unique properties, a plastic fence is able to serve a gardener for more than one season. Plastic fencing is usually represented by sections, borders in the form of flexible tape, which often imitates stonework or imitation wood.

• Concrete structures with high sides as well as possible will be suitable for highly filled flower beds. They are not afraid of moisture and temperature changes, they will last for many years. Connoisseurs of beauty will love the finished products in the form of sectional fences or high curbs. Practical gardeners can try to make a fence on their own.
• Often, land owners are looking for budget options for arranging flower beds and using improvised means. Here, there is no limit to the fantasy of gardeners - plastic bottles are used, beds are made of tires and tires, old wooden wheelbarrows or bicycles.

The extent of the arrangement of the flower arrangement is not limited. But the decorative part should be proportional to the rest of the site - do not overload it and not get lost, but rather take care of compact compositions.

On the site with a large number of tracks and the lack of extra space would be appropriate to plant a long floral border. A narrow strip of flowers around the perimeter is also able to revive a boring country house.

The choice of flowers is one of the most difficult stages of organizing a flower bed. Bringing together unpretentious and beautiful flowers to each other, without being lost in the variety of names, is not an easy task.

Therefore it is worth getting acquainted with the favorites of gardeners in advance:

• For lovers of experiments, one-year flowers are suitable, which will allow to change the composition every year. Annual flowers can decorate mixborders or modular flower beds, they also look good in pots. The popular plants of this group are marigolds with rich warm colors, heat resistant zinnia, sweet peas and petunia.

• Often experienced gardeners arrange on their site a flower garden of perennials. These bulbous plants begin to bloom with the first spring sun. The first through the snow peep low snowdrops and scillawho do not like the sun and unpretentious to the soil. Early flowers take turns popular in the garden crocuses and hyacinths with flowers of cold shades. After them, moisture-loving bloom blossoms on the flowerbed. daffodils and tulips early flowering, which need fertilized soil and light.

• In the summer months, perennial flower beds can decorate non-flowering plants - feather grass, hosts, stonecrop or spicy grass. However, some gardeners want the flowers to please the eye all summer, and they plant a flower bed of roses.

• Copies of continuous flowering are perfect for fans to enjoy the flowers throughout the summer season. These types include rich varieties of asters, whose starlike inflorescences fade and are replaced by new ones. This kind of dahlias are also considered to be the perfect decoration for any mixborder. BUT curly clematis with large and bright colors that stand out favorably against the background of foliage, they will refresh the fence or the arbor in the country.

The choice of the form of a garden flower bed directly depends on personal preferences and harmony with other objects on the site. Adherents of the classics tend to choose geometric shapes, and creative personalities - fantasy.

Creating a geometric flower garden, you can choose any shape.It can be rectangular or square, round or oval, and even triangular. This group of beds is distinguished by simplicity of execution without attracting a designer and versatility. Most clearly, the smooth lines of the geometric flowerbed are viewed in contrast with the lawn. Before installing the flower bed it is necessary to mark its boundaries in order not to break the symmetry.

In addition, you need to consider how tightly the flowers will be arranged to each other. For monoclumba characterized by the most dense planting of flowers. In the case of several species, it is necessary to place higher flowers in the center and emphasize the contour with the most vivid instances.

The abstract form of the flower garden looks no less impressive, and allows you to create on the site an exclusive landscape design. Such beds are usually deprived of geometric proportions, but also require preliminary marking and plan. For a simple form, you can choose one type of flowers,but a flowerbed of complex abstraction must have a corresponding content.

Quite interesting on the site look like vertical flower beds.. The wire used to create a shape allows landscape designers to embody the most daring ideas. For registration of a flower contour of a plant are carefully selected on height and splendor.

The choice of style orientation for decoration of a decorative corner with flowers depends on the overall design of the garden. Consider the most popular styles of flower gardens.

Country style is one of the most suitable for the decoration of the garden. Flower beds in rustic style can be positioned on the border between the landing areas or decorate with their entrance.

For rustic country style, the following items are characteristic:

• Various wooden attributes. It can be stumps of old trees, wooden barrels or rocker arms, woven from wooden twigs, baskets or fences.
• Household and habitual things for the villagers - a cart and its individual parts, pots of clay, garden scarecrows.
• An imitation of a well or cellar, an abandoned gazebo are excellent attributes for creating a certain legend of the country-style plot.
• With regard to the choice of flowers and plants, then you need to rely on the tastes of the villagers of the last century. Then in the garden or in the front garden under the window one could see bright sunflowers, romantic daisies, a sunny calendula and marigolds, bells, mallow and other flowers.

• Geometrical flower beds, modular flower beds and ridges belong to classic regular style. It is often used to design the area near the wall of the house or the main entrance to the site. Along the fence or walkway, as well as to give the shape of a flower bed or a wide rabatka, edging the lawn, you can plant a so-called floral border. It is a strip not wider than half a meter, the colors of the border should contrast with the colors in the main beds.

Excellent borders are obtained from low-growing and well-shaped varieties of annuals — daisies and marigolds, pansies, or balsams.Emphasize the beauty of the site and share its ornamental shrubs that are green all year round.

• If there is a reservoir on the site, it makes it possible to arrange garden in modern style. Smooth lines, unusual contrasts, solo shrubs and climbers will create a unique design. For the modernist style, the combination of the landscape with the construction of the house is typical, the garden seems to be its continuation. Evergreen shorn plants, flowers with an expressive look will perfectly fit, and paths and flower beds can be arranged in the form of an ornament.

For gardeners who want to do the device flower garden themselves, you need to stock up on inventory:

• At the stage of choosing the place and applying the marking, you will need pegs with a twine to designate the borders of the flowerbed, but you can draw a line on the ground.
• Then with a shovel you need to remove a layer of earth at 20-30 cm, fill the bottom of the flower bed with crushed stone, stones or fragments of bricks and ram it well.Sometimes the bottom is pre-lined with a film or roofing material to protect against groundwater.
• The next item is the installation of fencing. Usually it is either buried a little in the ground, or fixed with the help of cement mortar.
• After that, it remains only to fill the flower bed with black soil, and after a couple of weeks, if necessary, top up. Then you can proceed directly to the landing of flowers.

When choosing a type of flower garden, beginning gardeners often wonder what kind of flowers will fit there better:

• For the device border, you can choose not only flowers, but also ornamental plants. Here you can use annual marigolds, alissums, calendula, bush nasturtiums. Viola is also suitable, as well as perennial plants - crocuses, primroses, chistets, hosts, or lavender. Some people choose vegetable crops and greens as decorative cabbage, carrots, lettuce or parsley as a border.

• For registration of a rabatka with its even rows, gardeners use annual and biennial flowers with a low stem,flowering time is quite long. You can choose viola or ageratum, marigold and begonias, coleus and alissuma.
• The main place in the landing of mixborders is assigned to perennials with flowers or beautiful leaves. As an addition, they use bulbous flowers in early spring and long-flowering annuals. Flowers in a mixborder can contrast or complement each other. In a one-sided mixborder, the first plan can be decorated with low lobelia or geraniums, a decorative sage, zinnia or verbena can be planted in the center, and an amaranth cosmee can be placed behind.

To create any flower garden should take into account the following recommendations:

• In order to avoid variegation in the flowerbed, you should not take one copy of each species. Better to use 3-5 flowers. One can only be a plant-accent.
• Bright flowers should be planted in the center of the composition viewed from all sides or in the foreground in a one-sided flower garden. Such specimens should be diluted with calm greens.
• To make the flower garden look lively, tall plants should be planted next to low ones, evergreens with dropping foliage in autumn, beautiful flowers next to unusual leaves.
• Plants with flowers of delicate tones are usually located on the edge of the flower bed.Do not place them in close proximity with bright colors, so that they do not seem faded.

In the garden of a private house usually a little more space than in the country. This allows you to create more interesting flower arrangements.

The tree trunk can play with new colors if you break around it a flower garden of abstract shape with various flowering plants. Country style brings to this flowerbed a well-decorated old bicycle and a slightly rusty can.

A semicircular flowerbed, in which decorative evergreen shrubs are the main accents, looks alive and attractive among the tiled paths.

The flower garden can be completed even from a group of plants planted in pots. If desired, this bed can be moved to another place, and caring for it is not difficult.

If you want to do the flower garden device yourself, watch the video.