Perennial flower bed: selection of colors + design

The garden is especially beautiful during flowering, and in order for it to delight you with its flowering throughout the spring, all summer and autumn, you need to create one or more flower beds and choose plants and flowers that are unpretentious and blooming from May to September. Decorating a flower bed with perennial flowers will allow you to create a flower garden where plants will sprout, grow and bloom in one place. You do not have to sow seeds every year, plant seedlings, but of course, you also need to look after such a flower bed – adjust the growth of flowers, remove dried leaves and inflorescences, and make sure that weeds do not appear.

How to make a flower bed that will look luxurious in spring, summer and autumn, before the onset of cold weather? Making a flower bed of perennial flowers is complicated by the fact that the flowering period of many of them is short, and the flowers must be selected so that plants that stop blooming can be closed with blooming ones. When choosing perennials for a flower bed, one should take into account not only their height and color, but also the flowering time.

Bulbous, which begin to bloom in early spring and end their bloom in early June, will make the garden bright and festive. The first to bloom are woodlands, snowdrops, mouse hyacinths, crocuses, hyacinths, then they are gradually replaced by tulips, daffodils, hazel grouses, lilies. The scheme of a flower bed of early bulbous perennials can be made in several versions – closer to the edge, plant scaffolds and muscari, further – tulips of different shades.

Muscari and tulips

A wonderful spring flower bed will turn out if you combine small-bulb and large-bulb ones, for example, muscari and double tulips

Irises

At the end of spring, irises bloom, amazingly beautiful bulbous flowers. Usually they form an independent flower bed, and if you use irises of different shades, it is difficult to take your eyes off their flowering

Daffodils, tulips, muscari

Spring splendor of tulips, daffodils and muscari. Islets of tulips and daffodils are planted along the edges of the muscari alley. If there is not enough space in the garden, even small groups of these flowers will transform any garden corner.

If the flower bed is round, tulips framed by delicate fragrant muscari will look beautiful in the center. Tulips and daffodils are well combined, planted both in groups and in the manner of a Moorish lawn. And the lily, as a late flowering bulbous plant, usually perfectly coexists with summer flowers.

Planting a Moorish lawn is an exciting experience. What results can be achieved:

Avoid dense planting of flowers in the flower bed – they need space to form and grow. To fill the free space in the flower bed, you can successfully use ground cover, decorative sawdust and bark. Take care of the flowers, take care of them, and they will cheer you up all summer and a significant part of autumn, give you positive, pure energy of nature and exquisite beauty.

Primroses bloom one of the first undersized perennials for flower beds; these flowers of various rich shades are well planted as curbs.

Primroses and hyacinths

Primroses bloom early when the bulbous are still in bloom. You can use this moment by creating amazing color combinations in the flower bed. Against the background of bright undersized primroses, hyacinths look delicate and unusual.

Primrose

Primroses are considered by many to be too simple flowers. Perhaps you will be convinced of the opposite if you try to create a flower bed out of them, planting flowers of all sorts of shades.

Over time, primroses fade, but their leaves remain fresh in autumn, and the flower bed must be cleaned of dried bulbous leaves.

Taking care of this flower is easy:

Unpretentious perennials also include pansies, violets and daisies.

Rose and phlox

Roses usually grow on their own, but there are plants with which they go well, such as phlox. And they have about the same flowering time.

You can create a flower bed by combining roses and phloxes on it, especially flowers of similar shades – pink, white, burgundy. The rose will also look good with yarrow and lavender.

Rules for planting and caring for garden roses here:

roses and phloxes

If you like the combination of roses and phlox, you can create an interesting flower bed. Using flowers of the same shade, it will be even difficult to distinguish them at first glance, and contrasting combinations are surprisingly effective.

You need to think very carefully about how to arrange a flower bed with the help of perennials – to learn about the features of the plants that you want to plant, about the time of their flowering, and the characteristics of the soil. There are several ways of reproduction of perennial plants – propagation by seeds, cuttings, bulbs, root division. You should also know what time it is best to plant certain flowers.

There are also a number of plants that reproduce by self-seeding. One of the unpretentious flowers of this type is the soap dish:

Many summer residents, having conceived to create a beautiful flower bed, plant all the flowers they like at once. It is better to try to avoid this temptation and choose several varieties that will bloom all summer, replacing each other. These are liliaceae, pelargonium, foxglove, catnip. Such wonderful flowers as delphinium can bloom a second time, if at the end of the first bloom they are cut and fertilized.

Delphinium

Delphinium is a beautiful tall perennial that can grow in one place for 4 years. A good flower bed made of delphinium of different varieties and shades, a group of flowers, or a combination of it with shorter flowers

A flower bed of tall perennials

A flower bed of tall perennials that are successfully combined with each other. Spherical flowers of decorative onions, chamomile, lilies, delphinium are planted in groups

Among perennial plants, there are strongly growing ones, which can eventually capture the territory where neighboring flowers grow. These are bells, subulate phlox, violets, oxalis, euphorbia. These flowers are fine on their own, but they can be stopped if desired with a border tape or the excess growth can be removed manually. From the “invaders” you can make a whole flower bed, for example, from bells, which belong to tall flowers, and undersized subulate phlox of several shades.

In the fall, asters, saintbrines (alpine asters) and chrysanthemums reign in the flowerbed. The color range of asters is very rich – from white, pale pink and lilac to purple and burgundy. And autumn beauties bloom longer than summer flowers, chrysanthemums – before the onset of frost.

Shrub chrysanthemums are capricious, but such beautiful flowers. Not everyone can grow them. Here are some tips for a budding grower:

Hosts are plants that attract not by the beauty of their flowers, but by the original shape and color of the leaves. These plants are versatile – they tolerate heat and cold well, are drought-resistant, grow in the shade and in the sun. Their decorative properties are excellent. That is why our gardeners love the hosts. Hosts can form an independent flower bed or be combined with other flowers. A chic hosta bush with embossed succulent leaves can become the center of the flower bed, from where the composition is grouped, the hosts can also be one of the tiers of a flower bed of plants of different heights. Hosts planted under trees, in shaded places, where sun-loving flowers will not grow, look great.

There are a lot of hosta colors, so it is worth choosing taking into account the varietal affiliation of the plant:

Hosta and Endris' geranium

Hosta and Endris geraniums were used to create the flower bed – a combination that is discreet and pleasing to the eye, because sometimes you want to take a break from colorful colors

Hosta with other ratssenii

In this flowerbed, the hosta forms the middle row between the petunia and the ferns. Petunia can be replaced with any undersized perennial

A handmade flowerbed of perennials is a huge scope for creativity, where you can experiment with all your favorite plants and flowers. Try to create a hostarium in your garden, in which different host varieties will surprise you with an interesting shape and colors, and in combination with other colors you can create an exclusive garden in your garden, unlike any other.

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