The latest squeak of landscape fashion is mono-flower and one-color flower beds. They are adorned with very respectable places: the front entrances at the presidential palaces, the main city squares and parks, the territory of luxury hotels and sanatoriums. And what are our dachas and country houses worse? It is not difficult to create a new-fashioned design of flower beds and flower beds. But the site will immediately take on a solemn look. The main thing is to combine plants correctly and make sure that after flowering the flowerbed does not empty, but retains an attractive appearance. Let’s try to understand all the intricacies of creating monochromatic floral “decorations”.
The foreign prefix “mono” means that only one variety of plants will sit on the flowerbed. Those. you create a kind of solid carpet of tulips, hyacinths, salvia, etc. The flowers do not have to be all in the same color, but the appearance, height and flowering time must be the same.
The three types of petunias used in the flower bed are broken only by a silvery strip of cineraria, which serves as a transition from a dark pink to a light variety of plants.
A single-color flower bed is a different design option. In this case, the plants are planted different, but only those that match the color of leaves and buds are selected.
Since the mono flower has a ceremonial, even slightly royal look, it is not suitable for the so-called natural landscape styles, where all plants look natural, as if in the wild. This suburban flower garden design is shown only in regular styles with clear geometry.
You can learn more about the regular style in landscape design from the material:
A flower garden of weaving roses stretches along the entire length of the site, creating a kind of hedge, and perfectly contrasts with a short-cut lawn
Choosing a location
Monoclumba looks most advantageous at the main entrance to the site, near the front doors and in the recreation area. It is desirable that such a flower garden be visible from all sides of the site, because a bright blooming monochromatic spot will certainly attract the glances of curious passers-by.
Determine the shape of the flower bed
To enhance the solemnity of the floral decor, the flower bed is decorated in clear geometric shapes: square, oval, circle, rhombus. Be sure to use some kind of fence to highlight the border of the flower garden. This can be a decorative fence, mulching with bark, lining of colored gravel, etc. In this case, the gravel should not repeat the coloring of the inflorescences, but be contrasting. This will emphasize the solidity of the flower garden and make its color brighter.
The material with a selection of the best options for fences and fences for flower beds will also be useful:
Plant selection rules
It seems that it is easier to create a monoclumba than a combined one, where it is necessary to take into account the compatibility of plants, their different requirements for the soil, etc. And here – I planted the same thing over the entire area – and you’re done. But this is where the main difficulty lies: a combined flower garden is always decorative, because while some flowers are growing, they are covered by perennials and ornamental shrubs. There will be no one to cover in the monoclumba, because all the plants will simultaneously sprout, bloom and … begin to disappear. Therefore, the main task of the summer resident is to think over the selection of plants so that the flower bed is not empty until autumn. Those. as soon as some bloom, the seedlings of others should already be ready for planting. Or choose flowers that will be decorative all season due to the leaves.
A flower garden of tulips creates a beautiful clear pattern, giving the entire landscape an organized and austere look, and is in perfect harmony with paving slabs
Various options for monoclumb
The easiest way is to make a flower garden from “long-playing” plants. For example, from cannes. Tall varieties are planted in the center, and slightly smaller cannes are placed closer to the edges. Due to the different heights, the flower bed will look like a pyramid, and when flowering begins, the inflorescences located in tiers create an interesting, far-visible effect.
An example of a continuous decorative carpet can be a monoclumba made of lilies of the valley. Low plants have glossy textured leaves, which lose their attractiveness only by the end of autumn. And white bells in May and red berries in August create a kind of forest glade, strewn with small flowers or fruits.
The material will help you choose other white flowers to create a monochrome garden:
It is beneficial to create a monoclumba made of lilies of the valley in areas with constant shade, where other plants will not have enough sunlight.
In urban design, interchangeable mono flowers are often used, in which decorativeness is maintained due to the timely planting of new plants. So, for spring flowering, bulbous plants are used, which are planted in autumn, so that at the beginning of May they have a luxurious blooming carpet. The most luxurious, of course, tulips. If their height does not fit into your design in the country, use hyacinths for the flower garden. While the flower bed is blooming, seedlings should already be growing on the windowsills or in greenhouses for the second planting cycle. It can be pansies, petunia, ageratum. Then comes the turn of salvia, marigold or autumn asters, which will decorate the site with flowering until the very frost.
To accelerate the development of marigolds and make them bloom quickly, you need to grow seedlings in a greenhouse as soon as April days come
Color picking by color
When a one-color flowerbed is completed, it is quite difficult to get into one tone here. Usually pick up a monochrome palette. For example, if a pink main tone is chosen, then the flowers can be light pink, dark pink, blurry red, etc. From a distance, such a flower bed will play with tints, and it looks beautiful.
Depending on the location and size of the flower garden, it is made the same in height or multi-tiered. Small flower beds look more advantageous with low-growing flowers, large ones with multi-stage compositions.
To divide plants into tiers, they use transitional links like cereals or tall grasses, which add greenery to the drawing and slightly break the uniformity of the flower bed
Be sure to take into account the flowering period of all plantings, so that the flower bed blooms all season, maintaining the specified color.
If a wedding is planned in the house in the summer, then white flower beds will become a wonderful natural decoration for such a celebration, giving a ceremonial mood to the entire site
Option # 1 – blue-blue flower bed
For a blue flower bed, you can collect the following types of plants:
- early flowering: certain varieties of anemones, hyacinths, scilla;
- May bloom: muscari, viper onion, iris, flax;
- June: phlox, Austrian Veronica, Damascus Nigella;
- July-August: gladioli, meadow geranium;
- blooming all summer: lobelia erinus, felicia amelloid (in other words – blue daisy);
- autumn: asters.
From such a purple variety of plants, you can choose those that better take root in your climate and are inexpensive.
Option # 2 – yellow flower bed
For a flower bed of yellow shades, the following are best suited:
- early flowering: primroses, forsythia (ornamental shrub), daffodils, crocuses;
- May bloom: tulips, irises, aquilegia;
- June: doronicum, climbing roses;
- July-August: heliopsis, ornamental sunflower, rudbeckia;
- blooming all summer and autumn: gelenium, marigolds, meadowsweet, cannes.
The flowerbed in monochrome yellow-orange tones is created from only two types of plants mixed with each other. Moreover, the lower tier serves as a background for tall tulips.
Option # 3 – red flower bed
For the device of a red flower bed, we use:
- early flowering: primroses, anemones;
- May bloom: tulips, red periwinkle (vinca);
- June: geranium, climbing roses, peonies, poppy;
- July-August: annual aster, dahlias, mallow;
- blooming all summer and autumn: red daisies, salvias, begonias, cannes.
The red effect from the flower bed is enhanced by the same color of gravel and stones, which distinguishes this area and concentrates the views of all guests of the site on it
When you create a monochrome design of a flower garden with your own hands, it will become the central accent on your site, because such an increased concentration of color involuntarily attracts the eyes.
