Flower gardens and flowerbeds on a personal plot are intended primarily for aesthetic pleasure. But in addition to this, they perform 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 on how to decorate a flower bed will allow any gardener to form flower arrangements in his suburban area, which, in addition to aesthetic appeal, will create an atmosphere of harmony and comfort.
Thinking over 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 – integrity of the picture
The garden is a picture that is formed from 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 in the area 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, which contain both annuals and perennials, both flowering and decorative leafy plants
Rule # 2 – Placing Plants by Growth
The multi-tiered principle provides for the placement of ground cover and low-growing plants in the foreground, which act as a frame for flowering medium-sized flowers.
Medium-tall perennials, acting as soloists of the flower garden, will become the center of attention. The tapeworms look most impressive against the background of tall plants with decorative foliage or flowers of contrasting shades. Combinations of tall perennials and their medium-tall accompanying, harmonizing in color and shape, are also successful.
Quite unpretentious and at the same time possessing 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, flower beds can be decorated both in the form of flat compositions, or slightly raised and framed with decorative tiles or stones.
The shapes of flower beds can be very diverse, starting with free ones that do not have pronounced boundaries and ending with original curly and wavy
In order to give an unusual shape to a flower garden, you can use any objects from everyday life: 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.
For work, it is advisable to use colored pencils: 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 mallow (1) will be placed in the background next to the decorative sunflower Mishka (2), in front of it are poppy (3) and St. John’s wort (4) bushes. Lobelia ribbon (5) will add dynamism to the composition. Lilac-blue accents will be added by the catnip (6), the bell (7) and the Kalanchoe (8). The foreground will be occupied by gravilat (9), sedum (10) and aquilegia (11)
The drawn up scheme is just a kind of rough sketch: the final decision on the optimal placement of flowers will come in the process of planting plants.
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 flower garden projects will greatly facilitate the process of creating a flower bed.
Option # 1 – central flower bed
The layout of the central flower bed is one of the simplest.
The shape of the flower garden looks like concentric circles: the center is filled with dark-leaved cannes (1), which act as the soloists of the composition, then green-leaved cannes (2), decorative leafy gnafalium (3) and snapdragon (4) are planted in a circle
Option # 2 – “Vienna Flower”
One of the options for how to beautifully decorate a round flower bed is to create a flower-shaped composition. A flower bed decorated in the form of a six-leafed flower looks especially elegant and festive, and therefore it is advisable to take a central place in the garden for its arrangement.
The center of the composition is the most beautiful white levkoi (1), the frame is the border planting of the Alpine forget-me-not (2) against the background of lawn grass (3). The outer contour of the ornament is created by viols (4), primroses (5), zinnias (6), framed by decorative leafy variegated beauties alternatera (7) and achiranthes (8)
Option # 3 – “Fancy Pattern”
A round flower bed, decorated with many repeating undulating elements, which are decorated by a motley company 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 gorgeous crown of fan leaves, in its shade dahlia zinnia (2), the contrasting background of which is Coleus (3). Solitaire plantings of dracaena (4) in combination with group plantings of pelargonium (5) and begonias (6) create a fancy curl pattern that looks spectacular against the background of lawn grass (7)
Option # 4 – “Piece of cake” in the corner of the garden
A flower garden of this shape will find a place in any corner of the garden.
A plant composition in burgundy-red tones, bordered by a silvery 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 wormwood leaves act as a contrasting background for them (2). The center of the composition is the bushes of bright red heuchera (3), the corner elements are the bushes of the Macedonian korostavnik (4), the silvery edge is the chisel (5)
The proposed schemes serve only as a guideline: in the absence of a desire or opportunity to purchase a particular plant, it can always be replaced with a flower you like more, presented in the same color range and having similar flowering periods.
