Bright spots of flower beds and flower beds on the site are not only a way to decorate the site. They perfectly distract attention from some problem areas. By the way, this can also be used as a guide when choosing a location. We’ll talk further about how to make flower beds and flower beds with your own hands at the dacha, in the courtyard of a private house. This is not an easy task, of course, but it does not require knowledge of higher mathematics.

What are there

First of all, let's find out what the difference is between flower beds and flower beds. The flowerbed has clear boundaries and shape: circle, oval, square. Most often it is separated from the rest of the area and raised above it. We most often see this type of landscape design in parks and on the streets.

This is a flowerbed. It has a clear, strictly defined shape and geometrically correctly located plants

A flower garden is any place where plants of any shape are planted. Sometimes it comes with a fence, sometimes it doesn’t. Boxes with flowers hanging on a fence or wall are a flower garden, plants planted in old galoshes are also a flower spot on the lawn and a ribbon along the path are all flower beds.

Let's understand the terms a little. Now about what they are. They are distinguished primarily by flowering time:

Depending on the type of plants planted, there are annuals, perennials, and mixed ones. In some, only one type of plant is planted. They are called monoflowers or monoflowers.

They can be raised, they are also called high, and they can be multi-tiered. Their construction consists of several stages: first of all, a fence is built, then soil is poured into the finished form and plants are planted.

That's all with theory, let's move on to practice. Let's start with where you can make flower beds and flower beds with your own hands.

Where to do

When the yard is spacious it’s just great. Find the most visible place and plant a flower garden there. What to do if the entire territory has already been developed, but you want to plant flowers? You can always find a place. For example, near your house the area is concreted or lined with slabs, stone, etc. You can make an excellent raised or even multi-tiered flower bed with your own hands against the wall of your house. And there is no need to break the coating. A fence made of brick or stone is built right on it. It is advisable to lay them on the solution, and then cover the inside with waterproofing impregnation (bitumen mastic) so that when watering, water does not flow onto the path. Then you can fill in the soil and plant flowers.

They plant flower beds along the fences. This is a common way to decorate, for example, a long driveway to a house. But this can also be done in different ways. Here, as well as near, a high flower bed looks better.

A high flower bed made of boards. Construction will be inexpensive, and the appearance will be solid

You can plant a flowerbed in front of the gate. Outdoor flower beds must be durable. That’s why stone fences are usually used to implement them: just in case. If desired, you can make tiered flower beds. They are more difficult to build, but much more attractive than flat ones.

Outdoor multi-tiered (multi-level) flower bed of complex shape

Even if the yard is surrounded on all sides by walls, you can still find a place for flowers: Hang on the walls, in pots or in the form of a flowering wall, put up a stand, etc. You can make flower beds in the courtyard of a private house with your own hands from anything and anywhere. It is only important not to make a mistake with the style: it must coincide with the design of all buildings. Some ideas in the photo gallery.

You don't need a lot of space and can be moved. A portable flower garden is convenient

You can make a flower garden in your dacha near a tree. They already belong to the category of garden ones. Don't want it to be banal? Come up with an interesting fence.

What and how to make a fence from

The most common fencing for flower beds is brick, wild stone, boulders. You can make a structure out of brick in a strict “ceremonial” manner. Boulders and wild stone are more intimate, non-standard fences.

Since they have a decent weight, a foundation is often made for a brick or stone fence for a flower bed. Not if one or two rows are laid, but if there are four or more rows. If the device is installed on a concreted area, you can do without a foundation at all, but if you plant a flowerbed on a lawn or soil, then it is advisable to do so.

It is not even necessary to fasten two rows of stone or brick with mortar. They can simply be laid one on top of the other, covered from the inside and covered with earth. Brick flower beds made using this method will have to be adjusted frequently: the bricks can “move” out of place

First of all, remove the turf from the marked area. If you plan to make a high flower bed, dig a groove around the perimeter, about 20 cm deep, and 5-10 cm wider than the planned fence. This ditch is filled with crushed stone, compacted, and poured with liquid cement-sand mortar. For 1 part of M400 cement, take 4-5 parts of clean sand, mix and fill with water until it becomes creamy. This semi-liquid solution is used to pour crushed stone. When the concrete has set - you need to wait a few days - you can lay out the border for the flower beds.

How to make a border from brick or stone

Do-it-yourself flower beds and flower beds made within a fence of stone and brick are the most expensive to build, but also the most durable. They will last for several years without any problems.

Stones or bricks are placed on a cement-sand mortar, similar to the one used to pour crushed stone, but thicker. There should not be much mortar between the bricks - 5-8 mm. If you are laying cobblestones or natural stone, it is easier to first lay them “dry” by selecting the dimensions, and then relay them with mortar.

A few ideas on how to design stone borders for flower beds and flower beds in the photo gallery below.

This is a border for a cobblestone flower bed. A different technique was used - a roller is formed from a semi-dry solution, small stones are stuck into it

If you don’t need to raise the plantings that much, and you only want to mark the boundaries of the area planted with flowers, but you are afraid that if you just dig a brick in, it will fall, then you can dig a trench, fill it with crushed stone, and insert flagstone into the crushed stone (stone sawn into plates , it can be found in the section that sells materials for exterior decoration of the house) or standing to lay bricks. Spill liquid cement-sand mortar around the installed fence elements. After two or three days, when the concrete has set, you can continue working: fill in the fertile soil, but you can’t load the curb or step on it for about another month: that’s how long it takes for it to gain strength.

Using the same principle, you can frame a flowerbed with your own hands from slate or tiles cut into strips. A flower bed can be made from metal or asbestos slate. There are scraps left after installing the roof - use them. Here's what might happen.

Photo of a flower bed made of slate - such a fence looks good

Made of wood

It’s easier to make a fence for a flower bed out of wood: it doesn’t weigh that much. On the other hand, it is less durable. Flowerbeds and flower beds made with your own hands from wood can last for several seasons. Then you will have to restore or remodel them. It is used very rarely for ceremonial flower beds, but in a dacha or near a private house, a flower garden fenced with a wooden border is original and stylish. Especially if it resonates with the design style of buildings on the site.

Wood in any form can be used to decorate garden flower beds. Flowerbeds are made from boards, small-diameter round timber (small logs), blockhouse (boards convex on one side, similar to a log) and any other wooden remains. You can even cut a dead tree into logs, bury/hammer them into the ground, making such an unusual flower bed.

Birch logs - an excellent fence for a flower garden. An interesting idea for a high flower bed - a well is made from scraps of logs. Two pieces of a block house, installed one on top of the other - and in front of you is an excellent country flower bed.

How to make a wooden border? Find a log of small diameter, cut it into logs of different lengths and split them in half. You will get blanks like in the photo on the left. They are laid on a flat surface with the convex side down, one next to the other. Take a flexible thick wire and use staples from a construction stapler or bent nails to secure the wire to the flat side of the pieces of wood. One wire is nailed at the bottom, the second at the top. The result is a flexible wooden border that can be used to enclose a flower garden of any shape (pictured on the right).

To prevent the wood from losing its attractiveness and rotting, it is treated with protective impregnations. They can simultaneously give it color, or they can be colorless. From such pieces of wood collected into a ribbon, you can make flower beds of any shape with your own hands. You dig a shallow ditch, a little wider than your fence, insert a fence for a flower bed there and cover it with soil, compacting it.

From boards and timber

In our country, wood is one of the most inexpensive building materials. That’s why they build a lot and often from it. They also make a fence or fencing for flower beds from wood. The easiest way to fence a flower bed is with boards. For support you will need several bars - not very thick, but wide. Approximately 50*150 mm and edged board 20 mm thick. Choose its width yourself so that several pieces installed on the edge will give you the required height.

Impregnate the wood with protective impregnations, when it dries you can begin work. First, the support bars are installed. They can be sharpened at one end and carefully hammered in without damaging the upper surface (put a piece of a block and hit it), or you can dig a hole about 50 cm deep, install a block in it, bury it and compact the earth around it. The bars are installed in increments of 1-1.5 meters, depending on how wide the flower garden is. The wider and higher it is, the greater the mass will have to be supported, which is why supports are installed more often.

Boards are nailed to the exposed supports. They can be stuffed from the inside and then the support beams will be visible, or they can be filled from the outside. In the second option, only the wall of boards will be visible. The joints of the boards should be on the beams.

Flowerbeds from boards can be made in a variety of shapes. Even in the form of a pyramid. There are some interesting ideas below.

And this is how to make a flower bed in the form of a pyramid

Made of plastic

There are many types of ready-made fences for flower beds and flower beds made of plastic or resin. They have special legs that sink into the ground along the edge of the planted area.

But we are not talking about them, but about flower beds made from scrap materials. For example, you can make a decent fence for a flower bed from plastic bottles.

They are selected by volume and color. This will make the fence look better. Then they cut off the necks at the same level and stick them into the ground. This is one mounting option for creating a low curb. The second one will be much higher. It can be used when fondanting taller plants. In this case, they take a wooden beam and nail the caps to it at a certain distance, so that the bottles are close to each other. Bottles are screwed into the caps. To make such a plastic fence for a flower garden more stable, it is pierced through with wire closer to the bottoms and closer to the narrowing point at the neck. The finished fence section is installed and fixed on the ground.

Despite the fact that the material is waste, if everything is done carefully, such a fence looks decent, pleasant, and attractive. Photos of fences for flower beds and flower beds made of plastic bottles are in the photo below.

We couldn’t pass by... a fence made of old bicycle wheels. Original flower beds can be made from any junk. If you have talent, of course...

Old bicycle wheels can decorate your dacha. How? Make a fence out of them for a flower garden. A flower bed made of wheels is cool...

Original and unusual flower beds and flower beds

Sometimes you’ll be amazed at how people manage to make original, unusual, and, most importantly, beautiful things. The same applies to the design of flower beds. Well, I would never have guessed that an old chest or galoshes or a hat could be turned into a flower bed or plant pot. See for yourself - the photos don’t lie.

Tire flowerbeds

Completely unattractive car tires are turned into beautiful flower beds. The tires are cut, the edges are sanded using a grinder with an emery attachment. The resulting flowerpots are washed with soapy water and dried: the plants will not develop well if you do not wash out the engine oil, gasoline and other similar substances that get inside.

After drying, it is painted. You can paint a tire (tyre) with regular oil paint, but the surface must be grease-free, dry and clean. It lasts for several years. There are special paints for tires. They cost much more - they are made for styling tires. After the paint has dried, you can install the finished tire flowerbed, fill it with soil and plant plants. How you can make a flower garden from tires with your own hands, or rather, how to design it, look below (the photo gallery scrolls automatically, if you need to stop, click on the picture).

Tiered flower bed made from tires - easy and cheap

From old things

Whether this will surprise you or not, I don’t know, but flowers are planted even in old things. Have children grown out of rubber boots? Why throw them away? Make a couple of holes in the sole for drainage, add soil, and plant a few flowers. The result is original flower beds for flowers and hanging plants.

Is there an old gas stove gathering dust in the shed? It can also be adapted for a flower garden. The same goes for an ancient chest of drawers - the drawers are pulled out to different levels, soil is poured into them and you get a tiered flower bed. Do you have an old bathtub? Or an ancient car? Plant flowers in them flowers. The result is a stylish and original flower garden. In the photo gallery are some of my favorite unusual flower beds made from old things. They can be placed not only at the dacha, but also in the courtyard of a private house.

An old car does not necessarily need a place in a landfill... Flowers grew in the bathtub - it turned out to be a great flower bed. The bicycle cannot be repaired - paint it and plant flowers. Few people have a garden flowerbed like this (the main thing is that they don’t scrap it). A broken toaster, an old kettle and shoes - and this is also a flowerbed, only a mini one. Even barrels...

Now, you probably don’t have a question: “What can you make a flower bed from?” Now it’s difficult for you to decide what exactly you want to make it from...

It’s very easy to give your patio a cozy and attractive look. A small flower garden near the path and an alpine hill on the lawn behind the house will create a unique charm for the country estate. And in order to show individuality and realize your creative potential, it is better to create a flowerbed with your own hands. But landscaping requires a thoughtful approach, so you should be well prepared!

The main principles of creating a flowerbed with your own hands

City dwellers, breaking free into country life for the first time, often have no idea how to properly design their plot. Fortunately, mistakes in gardening are not terrible - you can always replace plants you don’t like. But why add hassle and financial expenses to yourself if everything can be done right?

Landscape plan of the site

Even a small yard requires a carefully thought out landscaping plan. Otherwise, it will turn from a work of art into a lush but tasteless flowerbed. You can contact professionals who will prepare a landscape design project based on specific data on the location and size of the site.

In the latter case, you should adhere to the main principles of landscape design:

1. Equilibrium. All sides of the yard should be equal, without preponderance in any part. In practice, this means not crowding the center of the front lawn with a multi-tiered flower bed, leaving the far corner of the yard empty.



2. Harmony. The garden should be liked, first of all, by its owners. But you shouldn’t try to fit a pond, a fountain, a sundial and a rockery into it - unless the plot is the size of a hectare. There must be free space so that the abundance of plants does not create “pressure” on vacationers.



3. Moderation. The number of flower beds should not clutter the area, but only zone it. Thus, it is better to divide a narrow courtyard into several zones so as not to create the effect of a long corridor with a path in the middle. In a square garden, round flower beds and curved lines will be appropriate.
4. Seasonality. The garden should look beautiful not only in summer, but also in winter. The lush greens or ocher colors of autumn leaves will make any area attractive. But bare branches and black empty flower beds will evoke melancholy. Therefore, it is necessary to include in the composition evergreen trees and bushes with bright, non-falling foliage - barberry, juniper and boxwood.



5. Color combination. Bright colors should be interspersed with calm greenery, and you should not combine more than three primary colors in one flowerbed. The abundance of flowering plants, arranged chaotically and without a well-thought-out scheme, evokes associations with the floral layout at the market.
6. Points of attention. Every garden should have several interesting objects that will attract the eye. This could be a flowerbed made from an old chest of drawers or a secluded gazebo hidden in a corner, woven with wild grapes. The main thing is that such objects should not immediately catch the eye, but attract attention and arouse the desire to examine them.

   

When the approximate plan of the site is ready, you need to take the time to study the conditions of maintenance and the mature appearance of the selected plants. After all, even a rock garden created by professionals will require constant and proper care, which an amateur gardener certainly cannot handle.

And a mast pine tree on three hundred square meters is not a very good choice.

Basic rules for flower beds

Once the locations for the flower beds have been chosen, you can begin by planning their composition. This also has its own characteristics:

• plants are selected according to soil type;
• conditions of care and maintenance should be similar;
• the use of commensal plants is allowed - when one plant benefits from the existence of another, but does not harm it;
• The flowerbed should look beautiful all year round.

Thus, plants that love acidic and alkaline soils should not be planted in the same flowerbed with common soil. On the other hand, flowers that require highly acidic soil can grow in medium acidic soil, although they will appear somewhat weaker. For example, in a flowerbed with alkaline soil you can plant maples, hawthorn, rowan, decorate it with barberry, boxwood and meadowsweet shrubs, and plant low flowering plants at the edges - snapdragons, carnations or cornflowers.

Flowers in the same flowerbed should love the same conditions - humidity, sun and overhead or root watering. Thus, mosses and lichens require constantly moist soil and grow best in the shade. Azalea also loves moisture, and can burn in the open sun. So they perfectly complement each other and can be planted along the fence or under the canopy of a spreading catalpa.

At the same time, roses do not tolerate overhead watering, so it is better to plant them separately from all other plants and water them individually, pouring water directly under the bush.

If you want to combine tall and short plants, you can plant low-growing evergreen trees, and under them - primroses, aquilegias and polemonium. The spreading crown will create sufficient shade even in the middle of the yard, while the flowers will add variety with bright colors.

If you are planning a high flower bed at the entrance, you need to think about how it will look at any time of the year. Annual and wildly flowering plants are suitable here: in spring and summer, sulfinias and petunias delight the eyes, in autumn - chrysanthemums, and in winter, you can decorate the flowerbed with a low artificial Christmas tree or place decorative figurines.

Mistakes of novice gardeners

Those who have not made mistakes have never designed their garden on their own. But you can learn from other people's mistakes! So, what a novice gardener should not do:

1. Don't try to fill the void in your flower beds with only perennial plants. The young garden will constantly grow and in a few years five barberry bushes, interspersed with juniper, will fill the entire flowerbed. It is better to fill the free space with annual flowers - their number can be adjusted every year depending on need.



2. There is no need to plant plants chaotically, without a clear idea of ​​the future picture. Firstly, it creates a sloppy look, and secondly, some flowers will simply get lost against the background of the rest. For example, rose bushes planted in pairs - white with pale pink or red with dark burgundy - look very advantageous. In addition, roses create an excellent background for low-growing flowers.



3. You can’t choose flowers only based on the shape of the inflorescences you like. So, dahlias look beautiful in a bouquet, but in a flowerbed they definitely need to be tied up and planted in a distant line. Asters and chrysanthemums also need to be chosen according to the shape of the bushes, but petunias and carnations can be safely chosen according to their flowers.



4. It is highly undesirable to make flower beds from color mixtures of one plant. It is better to choose several colors and make interesting patterns. In this case, it is advisable to avoid straight lines - winding, round or geometric shapes will look more original.

Very often, flower beds are planted with plants that bloom during one period. It is better to avoid this situation by choosing the composition in such a way that the plants can bloom from early spring to late autumn.

For example, snowdrops appear first, then the tulip period begins, and after them the leaves of daylilies and peonies bloom.

And in order for the economic hand to be visible, the flower bed must be regularly thinned, removing faded and dead parts. A few yellowed inflorescences on a hydrangea are enough to make the flower garden look untidy. If regular care is problematic, it is better to focus on evergreens and conifers.

Simple flower beds made from scrap materials

Financial restrictions are not a reason to deny yourself a beautiful flower garden. After all, it can be made from literally anything! All you have to do is use your imagination and sort out the piles of rubbish in the shed.

Bottle fencing

This option is suitable for unpretentious summer residents and city residents who want to design a house plot. A low border will protect the flower garden from the encroachments of unscrupulous dog owners - animals are much smarter than people and often do not try to step over even such low fences. And the very fact of the presence of a border indicates that this flowerbed is being looked after.

For the bottle fence you will need:

• glass or plastic bottles, preferably 1.5 liters;
• garden shovel or hoe;
• sand (if the site has insufficiently loose soil);
• paint – paint the finished border if you come across bottles of different sizes.

The procedure is quite simple, you can even involve children in it to cultivate hard work in them:

Tall flower beds made from bottles look original. They are laid on a thick cement solution, the first layer should be placed in a recess or on the base - so that the bottles do not move apart. Each tier is filled with concrete from the inside so that the neck is in the solution. And to prevent concrete from flowing inside the circle, internal formwork is made. The only disadvantage of this solution is that it is quite difficult to find identical glass bottles.

Tire basics

Tires are the most popular bases for country and city flower beds. Strong, durable and unnecessary. Their appearance is quite unpretentious, but with a little imagination, you can create really interesting yard decorations.

Multi-tiered flower beds made up of several tires look good. In this case, you can take tires of different diameters, radii and widths. If you want to add some variety, you can paint the old wheels, but it is better not to get carried away with colorful colors, choosing white or green. This way the base of the flowerbed will not distract attention from the flowers themselves.

Original compositions from old things

What some consider unnecessary trash, summer residents can turn into real works of art! For example, an old chair makes an excellent vintage flowerpot stand. By complementing the composition with the rest of the set, you will get an original flowerbed. Definitely no other housewife has one like this!

Any old things will be used. Even a suitcase without a handle can come in handy again.

If you have an old chest of drawers at home, you should never throw it away! It will be an excellent decoration for a blank stone wall in the far corner of the garden.

But when breathing new life into old things, it is important to carefully treat them with antiseptic solutions that prevent rotting. And then the original flower beds will become the hallmark of the house!

Beautiful and versatile flower beds

Complex flower beds look much more advantageous on any site. But even if you don’t want to bother with capital construction, you can make beautiful vertical flower beds from pots.

To do this, you will need the pots themselves and one metal rod. The pots begin to be strung on it through the drainage hole and themselves take the desired slope.

Another type of convenient and simple flower bed is a column of petunias. It can be moved on a stand with wheels throughout the entire territory, and can be simply disassembled for the winter. For the device you will need a net, a large pot, black spunbond, a cable tie and a lot of petunias or sulfinia seedlings.

Creating a brick fence

A brick flowerbed allows you to advantageously zone the space and is suitable for both large and small courtyards. This is also a great option for flower lovers who don't want to waste their time mowing the lawn.

Making such a flower bed is not difficult, but it takes a long time:

A brick fence for a flower bed can be assembled without mortar. But it does not look so neat, and there is a greater chance that such a structure will collapse over time.

If you don’t want to mix concrete, you can frame the flowerbed with low stone sides.

Laying stone borders without mortar

To do this, a small ditch is dug around the perimeter of the flower bed and bricks are laid in it. The advantage of this solution is that the flowerbed can always be enlarged or its shape changed. When, after a couple of years, the border begins to be overgrown with grass, it is easy to remove it, clean it and lay it again.

To prevent the stones from moving, it is still better to fix them with a small amount of cement. But it’s quite possible to do without it. Such a border is placed on the ground from which the top grass layer has been removed. The rows are laid gradually, and the evenness of the masonry is determined by the stretched twine.

To ensure that it lies securely, the lower large stones are placed in a previously dug trench. The second layer of stones begins to be laid after the soil is poured inside the flowerbed. It will fix the already laid stones and allow you to install the top ones.

Their design is quite simple: you can buy ready-made cages and fill them with stones or assemble the base yourself. To do this, you will need to dig a trench 25 cm deep, cover the bottom with geotextiles, install a strong mesh of the required height and fill the trench with gravel and sand. To prevent the gabions from wobbling, reinforcing rods are dug in every 50 cm. And the mesh sections are treated with an anti-corrosion compound.

You can purchase them or make them yourself from stiff wire. Ready-made gabions are closed cages, which is why they got their name. Self-made flower beds can be left open by simply pouring heaps of stones.

A flowerbed can even be made from waste corrugated sheets after installing a fence! The video shows a simple and quick way to create a beautiful two-tier flower bed:

Flower beds in the country are a decoration for any area. Properly selected and planted compositions according to the rules will delight with their riot of colors and bring more positivity to life. But often gardeners, this primarily applies to beginners, initially make up flower beds incorrectly, as a result of which there are many negative aspects associated with excessive growth or insufficient flowering and a faded appearance.

To avoid this, you need to plan the design of the flowerbed in advance and buy those plants that will highlight it more favorably and meet the conditions of growth and care; you can make a beautiful flowerbed from scrap materials. This article presents the rules and ideas for designing flower beds.

Basic principles of floriculture

For beginners, it will be very useful to learn about those nuances, taking into account which you can achieve wild flowering and enjoy your flower garden:

Help for a beginning gardener

Every beginner, no matter what business, must learn the theoretical fundamentals and then apply these ideas in practice. It’s the same with floriculture, first of all you need to find out everything, and only then implement it in your area.

Basic rules for creating a flower bed

If it is customary to plant a flower garden on your property, then you need to beware of the mistakes that beginners often make. Getting excited, many plant as many plants as possible on the site, they think it’s more beautiful. This can be done if you like, but taking into account the height of the plants, the timing of flowering and the conditions that they require. Let's consider the basic rules by which a flower garden can be compiled:

Correct selection of plants for the flower bed

In order for a flowerbed to delight its owner and his guests with its beauty for a long time, it is necessary to plant plants with different flowering periods.

Important! The correct arrangement of plants is the key to the beauty and uniqueness of a flower garden.

In March, if the weather is warm, crocuses or snowdrops may begin to grow in the flowerbed. At the end of the month, pansies appear.

The next month will see the flowering of plants such as liverwort, scylla, lungwort, anemone, muscarina, primrose, tulip and daffodil, as well as other early plants.

In May, all the beauty of the flowering of bulbous plants such as tulips, daffodils and hyacinths is revealed. In addition to them, the flowering period also begins for awl-shaped phlox, perennial alyssium, decorative onions, swimsuit, lilies of the valley, arabis, forget-me-nots and other beautiful plants.

In the first month of summer, peonies, daisies, numerous varieties of bells and carnations, lupins, poppies, irises, petunia, and felicia bloom. Just on the first days of summer, roses begin to bloom in flower beds, which will give you a good mood until autumn.

In July, phlox, daylilies, dahlias, astilbes, nasturtiums, cosmos and cannas bloom actively.

In August, some summer garden plants continue to bloom and chrysanthemums, decorative sunflowers, rudbeckia, gladioli, and goldenrod begin to bloom.

In September, the time comes for asters, marigolds, dahlias and late varieties of chrysanthemums. At this time, you can see new blooms of pansies, daisies, and tea roses. These beautiful autumn flowers will show their beauty until the first frost.

Arrangement and diagrams of flower beds

Flowerbeds are divided into two completely different types:

The classic design is pink and white. If you learn to combine two colors in a certain order, you can get a flowerbed that has quite good decorative qualities. White blooms will become the background, and pink will add the necessary accents.

This can be done, for example, using the following planting: low-growing white flowers or pink zinnias are planted on the main background, and Drummond phlox is planted along the edges and in the background. A car tire will help you make a perfectly level planting.

The combination of annuals in a bright red-orange color scheme in a flower garden also gives an unrealistically beautiful result. The background is filled with amaranth with a small amount of sunflower, dahlias are in the background, and the empty spaces are filled with escholsia.

For edging, you can use marigolds and asters or other plants that match the color. This idea for arranging a flower garden can be brought to life in the shortest possible time.

You can make a flowerbed in completely different variations, but if you don’t have enough experience, you can use ready-made plant combinations to avoid the unpleasant consequences of creating it yourself not according to the rules. The simplest option is to create a flower garden from tires. Here are some ready-made options for flower beds in the country for beginners with photos:

Conclusion

As it becomes clear, creating your own flower garden is not particularly difficult, but only if, first of all, the features of growing a particular plant have been studied and the goals that need to be achieved in the end have been identified. Every gardener can afford to plant an oasis of beautiful blooms on their plot, even a beginner in this business.

Remember the legendary phrase of the building manager from the Soviet bestseller “The Diamond Arm”?

“Our yards are not designed for celebrations, but for aesthetics.”

I always remember this film fragment when I start decorating my country flower beds in the spring. Just as selflessly as the colorful house manager played by Nona Mordyukova, each housewife protects her flowerbed from outside intrusions. In our garden plots, we plant flower beds for aesthetic pleasure, to rejoice at each new bud, enjoy the aroma, and watch bees work on colorful “platforms.”

Did you know that proper design of flower beds is an important component of the art of landscape design? A flower garden can become not just a picturesque corner of your dacha, but also a connecting link between buildings and planted areas. With the help of a flower bed, you can visually combine the garden and the house into a single harmonious picture, which will create an atmosphere of comfort. Perhaps it will be unnecessary to say that flower arrangements are the best decoration for a summer house in the summer.

We use words "flowerbed" And "flower garden" as equivalent, but for very picky readers I will say that these are slightly different concepts. The essence does not change, but country flower beds usually have a regular geometric shape - rectangular or oval. Other options are also possible, but strict geometry is always observed.

But the design of a flower garden can be of absolutely any configuration, even bizarre shapes. In the form of a silhouette of an animal, represent some kind of ornament. It can be decorated in a free style; it is a kind of spontaneous flowerbed, for which no design laws are important. Only imagination, only a bright palette of colors.

Design of flower beds and their varieties

Before setting up flower beds in your dacha, you need to carefully consider how they will fit into the overall design of the site and whether they will match the style decision. There are many types of flower beds, and each type is interesting in its own way. For example, a flower border is a narrow flower bed or a row of plants planted along a path. Low flowers that form compact bushes look best here.

A rectangular flower bed is called discount. You can plant plants of the same height on it or create a multi-tiered effect. And the small pond inside the ridge looks very nice. A very original solution for spacious areas.

A very fashionable trend in such a matter as landscape design of a flower bed in front of the house is mixborder. Behind this complex name lies a flower garden of free configuration, which has already become familiar to domestic latitudes. Designers actively use this option to decorate country houses.

Here you can combine colors and styles. But there are also some rules. Firstly, the mixborder must be in a state of constant flowering. Let these be alternately blooming flowers, but such a flowerbed should not be empty. Experts recommend using at least two dozen plant varieties and grouping them by height and timing of active flowering.

Beginning gardeners who are just trying to create original flower beds will love this look monoflower bed. From the name it is clear that plants of the same species grow here. Despite the simplicity of the design, this flowerbed looks simply gorgeous. Such an impressively bright picture that you just can’t take your eyes off.

By the way, as an option for a monoflower, I can recommend a mini-rose garden. Just please don’t get carried away by the abundance of varieties. One, maximum two rose flowers will be enough. Or you can plant medium-sized perennials that form lush, colorful bushes. Look how bright, stylish, unusual it is.

Very popular today vertical flower beds. This is already, so to speak, the aerobatics of homestead design. Want to practice? Try building a pyramid from several flower pots of different diameters. Sow different flowers in each of them. But they should be approximately the same height and have visually similar petals - for example, begonia and petunia.

And this option is for more experienced gardeners. Some skills are required here. Using a chain-link mesh and decorative stone, you can create beautiful flower beds that resemble mountain serpentine. Alpine forget-me-not, viola, and primrose will look especially romantic in such a flower garden. If you want to add an exotic touch, plant a squat chamerops or dracaena at the top of this structure.

They say that a real woman can create a scandal, a hat and a salad out of nothing. And an amateur gardener knows how to create beauty out of nothing. In this case we are talking about a flower bed. Absolutely all available materials are suitable for arranging a flower garden. To bring beautiful garden flower bed ideas to life, you don’t need a significant investment. As borders for flower beds, our “crazy” summer residents use:

• old car tires;
• tree cuts;
• brick;
• natural stone;
• unnecessary kitchen and household utensils;
• broken furniture.

I really like the car tire idea. Round flowerbeds made of tires in the country look great. But you just need to show your imagination. If you just plant flowers in a tire, it will be a bit dull. For example, like here.

Take some time and make the tire into something like a flower pot on a stand. A completely different look! Elegant and original. All that remains is to paint the tire some bright color - and you’re done, we have an excellent flowerbed for the garden.

If you have brick or stone laying skills, it will not be difficult for you to build beautiful flower beds with your own hands in your favorite area. Of course, these are quite expensive materials, but you can use what is left from the construction site. Just a few rows - and your flower garden looks truly impressive.

Dear readers, I hope you understood the main idea that I wanted to convey to you. You can create a real landscape fairy tale at your dacha with your own hands. To find out how to properly design a flower bed, it is not at all necessary to seek help from a professional designer. Give free rein to your imagination and create. Dream, try, gain experience.

Photo selection of flower beds

Need some inspiration? See a wide variety of ideas for decorating flower beds in this photo collection.

To plant a flowerbed of perennials at your dacha, you do not need to obtain a higher education or be a certified landscape design specialist.

What to plant - onions or perennial flowers?

Not everything in the garden should be for the belly, you need to leave room for “beauty” - just for the soul. A flowerbed of continuous flowering perennials can easily decorate even the most inconspicuous area, giving it a unique charm. Roses, geraniums, carnations, poppies and asters will grow in the same place season after season without requiring special attention.

A question that every novice gardener must understand is the choice of plants for a perennial flower garden. From practical experience, the first flowerbed should be made small and planted with unpretentious flowers that grow well under the bright sun.

A flowerbed is a bright element of the garden, so there is no point in planting it in the far corner of the site or hiding it under the shade of trees. The optimal solution for creating a perennial flower bed would be a place that is clearly visible from all sides.

Multi-level flower beds (with tall plants in the background and short ones in the foreground) are usually placed near the walls of the house, fence or hedge. Whereas in the center of the site, a constantly blooming flowerbed of perennials can either form all sorts of combinations of plants, or be decorated with only one species.

Perennial flowerbed for beginners

Flower garden puzzle of the most popular flowers - assemble it yourself!

• Tall representatives of the flora for the center of the composition:

Roses, astilbe, lilies, asters, claricas, peonies, black cohosh, Hassler's cleome, delphinium, decorative onions, phlox, helenium, Zopnik ruselovsky, lupine multifolia, clematis, hosta, hydrangea, rudbeckia, liatris spicata, poppy, meadow bells, ratibida columnar , echinacea, daylily and many others.

• Medium-growing perennials for a modest addition:

Tulips, anemone, irises, fragrant rue, navel tincture, aquilegia, beautiful small petal, mountain cornflower, hybrid catnip, magnificent dicentra, oak sage, gravilat, yarrow ptarmika, heuchera, bergenia, lavender angustifolia, primrose, fern, evening primrose quadrangular, etc.

• Ground cover plants for edging flower beds and filling gaps:

Chistets Byzantina, acena, small periwinkle, creeping tenacious, Renard's geranium, aubrieta, Carpathian bellflower, grass carnation, lobularia, spring umbilical cord, Waldsteinia, lungwort, small periwinkle, speedwell and others.

It is recommended to plant tall soloists individually, but small flowers are best planted in groups, several at a time. At the same time, in a flowerbed viewed from different angles, taller individuals should be planted closer to the center, and shorter ones should be planted along the edges.

Advice. To prevent bald spots from gaping in the flowerbed and weeds from growing, plant the plants as close to each other as possible, but not too crowded.

Want to achieve continuous flowering? Find out about the characteristics of each flower, write down the flowering time on a piece of paper and create your own combination diagram of a beautiful club of perennials, in which some plants will bloom in early spring, others in mid-summer, and others will bloom until late autumn.

Of course, thinking through the ideal design for a luxurious flower garden is a special task. But, fortunately, there are proven designs for flower beds of perennials.

Perennial flower beds - the best planting schemes

Several options for arranging plants in flower beds - schematic symbols with the names of perennials.

Scheme No. 1 “The most simple”

In this simple and attractive long-flowering composition, such unpretentious perennials were used as:

1. paniculate phlox pink or purple in color. The best time to plant is September or mid-March, grows well in well-drained, sandy soil, blooms from mid-July to autumn;
2. pink astilbe. Flowering of different varieties lasts, as a rule, from late June to mid-August, the plant is responsive to regular feeding and loosening;
3. purple-silver daylily. Plants are planted in spring in organic-rich and well-drained, loose loam with an optimal acidity of 6-6.5 pH;
4. Heuchera with silver-gray and lavender leaves. Prefers light soils without stagnant water, blooms from May to July;
5. geranium is magnificent. Blooms profusely from mid-summer to late season, forming a lush bush with light purple flowers).

Scheme No. 2 “Example of a flower bed of perennials blooming in the first year”

1. hollyhock "Pleniflora" with densely double corollas of yellow, salmon-pink and red-purple flowers (“Pleniflora” is not a rose, but a giant mallow that blooms profusely in sunny and moist areas of the garden from mid-summer until the first cold weather);
2. ten petal sunflower(a very valuable variety, blooming from mid-August to mid-October, grows well and has healing properties);
3. Icelandic poppy(ideal for an ever-blooming bed of perennials due to continuous flowering from May until autumn);
4. St. John's wort "Hidcote"(“the odorless” type of St. John’s wort pleases with yellow inflorescences in the flowerbed from June to September);
5. lobelia cardinalis(a plant with a beautiful leaf plate and blood-red flowers are decorated from July to October);
6. catnip "Nepeta faassenii"(blooms with lavender-like flowers for a long time, starting in May);
7. bell "Campanula poscharskyana"(the crystal ringing of these delicate and fragile lilac-blue flowers can be heard from June to September);
8. Catananche "Blue Cupid"(inflorescences-baskets of a muted heavenly shade can be observed all summer);
9. perennial gravilate(in the composition of a long-flowering flower bed, the herbaceous plant of the “Feuerbal” variety does not solo, but rather complements the flower garden from May to July);
10. sedum "Matrona"(a strong bush with beautiful flowers remains decorative until the first snowfall);
11. Heuchera "Miracle"(a spectacular bush with unusually colored foliage decorated with pink flowers from June to mid-summer).

Scheme No. 3 “Pink and purple beautiful flower bed”

1. changeable highlander with bluish-green thin leaves, this large perennial bush blooms in a “white cloud” at the end of June and remains in bloom until the end of summer;
2. Monarda hybrid creates a romantic mood at the dacha when, during flowering, its pink flowers begin to exude a divine aroma;
3. Astrantia "Claret", its small, numerous flowers-umbrellas of a rich red-wine color, blooming in mid-summer, look luxurious against the background of dark purple leaves;
4. Bergenia(Saxifrage thickolitis) pleases the eye from May to July with paniculate-thyroid inflorescences on long stalks.;
5. Phlox "Dragon" with its smoky silver-violet petals, it looks especially attractive in the composition of a sunny flowerbed;
6. Heuchera "Obsidian" hybrid with dark purple-violet, almost black leaves blooms in June;
7. geranium "Compactum" grows very lushly, adding blood-red tones to the flower garden;
8. Sedum telephium or hare cabbage, variety "Matrona" blooms in mid-summer with pale pink inflorescences;
9. bell "Loddon Anna" with soft purple wide-pyramidal inflorescences fill the garden with a delicate aroma from July to September.

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Creating a flowerbed of perennials: soil preparation and planting

Having decided on the ingredients for the flower bed, it’s time to start preparing the soil for the flower garden. This is the most uncreative and labor-intensive task in creating a perennial flower bed. But, at the same time, it is also the most necessary thing, because properly prepared soil is the foundation of a future flower bed.

You need to prepare the soil after you have drawn a sketch of the future flower garden. You need to choose plants not only according to their flowering time, but also according to their similar requirements for light, moisture and soil - this will greatly facilitate caring for the flowerbed. (For example, in shade and semi-shaded areas in dry areas with fertile and loose soil, the following grow well: heucheras and hillocks, lilies of the valley and mantles, primroses and phlox, irises and geraniums, periwinkles and anemones).

How to make a beautiful flowerbed of perennials?

Start by removing the old sod with a shovel. Remove all weeds by their roots and revive the soil by diluting clayey soil with sand, and light soil with clayey soil or bentonite. Then add compost (this will make the soil more fertile) and loosen the soil as deeply as possible with a fork, mixing clay, sand and compost. Add the necessary fertilizers and start planting seedlings.

Please note that in a flowerbed of any design, approximately the following is planted per 1 sq.m.

• 10 pieces of ground cover plants;
• 7 pieces of undersized ones;
• 5 pieces medium-sized;
• and 1-3 tall plants.

Now you know how to arrange a flower bed of perennials.

Flowerbeds of classical forms are becoming less and less common in landscape design. In landscape gardens these days, island flower beds with plant species that are asymmetrical in height and planting, arranged on lawns and lawns, are more appropriate. Multi-level vertical plantings are no less popular. Raised flower beds planted in flower beds of original shapes, mini-flower beds in old stumps and cascades of rectangular stands bordered by broken bricks also look interesting.

Tip: If possible, the shape of the flowerbed should be combined with the shape of the nearest building, for example, a gazebo or porch.

Round flowerbed of perennials

If we talk about the simplest method of flower decoration of an area, then this is, of course, a round flower bed of perennials, which is very easy to make with your own hands. It is very important to choose the right size. Since on a large area a small flower garden will look ridiculous, and a too-voluminous flower bed within a limited space will be poorly visible.

Important! When decorating a garden with a flower bed of perennials (for a harmonious combination of all elements), be sure to take into account the surrounding situation.

The place for the flower bed should be cleared of weeds, debris and stones. Break up large lumps of earth, dig up the ground and level it with a rake.

To accurately draw a circle, you need to take a peg, drive it into the center of the future flowerbed and tie a rope to it, at the other end of which there will be a peg. They need to draw the correct circle of the required size.

DIY diagram of a round flower bed of perennials and annuals

with large white flowers, compactly collected in inflorescences;

, often used to decorate borders;

with characteristically narrow, linearly elongated leaves, which, intertwining, form a continuous bright green carpet;

4. (Viola) pansies, specifically the variety “V. t. Maxima" - a tricolor violet that blooms all summer;

- an unpretentious plant that blooms in spring with yellow fragrant flowers;