Landscaping flower beds

The most striking decoration of any garden, of course, are decorative plants and flowers. But in order to prevent them from being randomly spread throughout the house, they create original compositions from them with colorful patterns and drawings. It is the creation of such decorative elements near the house that is called landscape design. Everyone can decorate their own plot with flower beds that fill the air with delicious aromas. And for this it is not necessary to hire experienced landscape designers, you can transform your garden yourself.

Site planning is the key to success

In order to maximally effectively and harmoniously fill the territory with decorative elements, first you need to create a small project. To do this, it is enough just to stock up on paper, pencil and, of course, imagination. The first thing you need to decide on the style of design. And here you should be guided by simple and well-known rules:

style expresses individuality, and therefore it should match the owner of the house as much as possible;

when creating landscape design, the features of buildings, the shape of the site and its relief should be taken into account.

In order to create an original atmosphere in the garden, it is not necessary to come up with any complex forms of flower beds, the main thing is that they correspond to the buildings and harmoniously fit into the overall picture. The simplicity of the regular geometric shapes of the flower beds will be filled with colorful and vibrant colors. However, this does not mean at all that we need to abandon the drop-shaped, zigzag and curved flower beds, sometimes they are the ones who bring the main touch to the design of the garden.

So, in order to create a project, you should take a plan of the site and draw on it the planned or existing tracks and decorative elements that you want to see in your yard.

Design options for flower beds

Flower arrangements in the design of the house area are the main decoration, and therefore they should be perfect. There are many options for creating flower beds, which will not be difficult to do. It can be round flowerbeds in the middle of the grass, edged with broken bricks or large stones, cascades made using exposed rectangular drawers with flowers in the form of a staircase or standard concrete flowerpots. Small flower beds arranged in specially arranged flower beds between the fence and the tiled courtyard also look original.

It can also be small bushes on both sides of the path leading to the house or a wavy flowerbed along the fence in the yard.

Multilevel flower beds look original too, in the creation of which not only flowers, but also shrubs are used.

Such flower beds are well arranged in large areas. You can arrange them around several planted hardly coniferous or deciduous trees, which, once in the center, will become the highest point of the composition.

The original solution for the flowerbed will be small architectural figures: granite baskets, fountains or balls. These elements will originally fit into any flower garden, contributing to the overall perception.

When designing a flowerbed, it is very important to adhere to a certain color scheme. It is the harmoniously combined shades of colors that will create original compositions. Yellow-red, violet-pink and blue-blue flower beds look great, but the choice of color is an individual matter.

Selection of plants for flower beds

How to get plants for flower beds? This question is asked by many owners who want to beautifully design their site. And many here are faced with problems that are simple errors. The most common mistake is planting moisture-loving and drought-tolerant plants together. Therefore, having started creating a flower bed, you will have to deepen your knowledge a little about the characteristics of various colors and care for them.

Among the beginner gardeners, there is an opinion that unpretentious flowers are unprepossessing in appearance, but this is not at all the case. Among these plants you can find charming undersized and tall flowers and herbs, combining which you can create original compositions that do not require special attention to the gardener. Unpretentious plants like marigolds, asters, cosmea, nasturtium, snapdragon, juniper, barberry, cotoneaster, mountain pine and others are popular among gardeners.

In order for the plants to take root well and delight with their appearance all season before planting, you need to properly prepare the flower bed. First of all, the soil should be mixed with gravel and sand to ensure a good outflow of moisture from the soil and limit the amount of fertilizer. Next, plants should be planted at a sufficient distance so that they can grow and develop without interfering with each other. It is also worth noting that it is best to water such a flowerbed in the morning, so that all the moisture evaporates in a day.

Unlike drought-resistant flowers, moisture-loving ones do not require a drainage system in the soil, on the contrary, such plants quickly die out without enough moisture, so if you are ready to constantly fill your flower bed, then plants like forget-me-nots, peonies, roses, rudbeckia and others are suitable for you.

You should also take into account the attitude of plants to the shade, some flowers in the shaded area will quickly die, while others on the contrary will begin to grow and develop.

Speaking about plant varieties, it is impossible not to mention that all the flowers are divided into carpet, which grows, spreads on the ground and completely covers it, and the so-called border plants that do not outgrow and maintain their compactness, always remaining one growth.

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