Creating a flower bed is a creative process. But in addition to the harmonious combination of different shades of flowers and the forms of their inflorescences, it is necessary to take into account the period and duration of flowering of each plant, the conditions for its cultivation. A properly created flowerbed should remain beautiful and blooming throughout the season.
Flower bed plan
In order for the flowerbed to please you with its lush flowering from the earliest spring to late autumn, perennial plants with different flowering periods should be selected, diluting them with abundantly flowering annuals. In addition, it is very good to include decorative foliage plants and various herbs in the composition.
Try to draw your future flowerbed with colored pencils on paper. This will facilitate the selection of plants, help determine their color and quantity. First of all, decide on the shape of the flowerbed - it can be round, square, triangular, etc. In the center, place tall plants, designating them with circles of the intended color, and lower-growing ones should be located on the edges. If your flowerbed is near a wall or fence, the tallest plants will be located on the same side. Well, if you draw three or four such schemes - this will help you imagine a flowerbed at different times of the year.
The basis of the flower arrangement is most often perennials or ornamental shrubs. Their choice directly depends on the estimated area allocated for the flowerbed, and its illumination.
Shrubs for flower beds of continuous flowering
Shrubs should be included in the flower garden if the flower bed is large enough and is not too close to the viewpoint, i.e. near the track. This is due to the fact that it is difficult for the human eye to catch too large spans in height at close range. According to the rules, the maximum height of plants in the flower bed should be equal to half the distance between the flower garden and the point of view. On a flower bed with an area of about 10 square meters. m should be located no more than three shrubs of the same species. For example, remaining tunnels that are decorative throughout the season, tunberg barberry, varied in leaf color, or mockwort blooming with beautiful white fragrant flowers, various hydrangeas, Weigela, Kuril tea, snowberry and spirea, as well as coniferous shrubs that give life to the winter garden.
Perennials for flower beds
It is perennials that often become the "soloists" of most flower arrangements. They are appreciated for their unpretentiousness and lush bright inflorescences. However, their drawback is that the flowering period is limited in time, so you have to select them so that the plants, fading, succeed each other.
The first flowers to meet spring are crocuses, muscari, hyacinths, primroses, viola, medunitsa, daisies, hellebore, then beautiful tulips and daffodils bloom. Since the end of May, the cover has been taken up by the ground cover phlox, aquilegia, saxifrage, and euphorbia.
The selection of summer perennials is more diverse. First of all, you should pay attention to long-flowering plants that are able to delight you with their colors twice a season. This is a garden geranium, yarrow, navel, catnip, delphinium, erigeron.
Irises, peonies will open the summer season, later lilies, chamomiles, bells, phloxes, rudbeckia, astilbe and coreopsis will bloom. In the fall, asters, chrysanthemums, gladioli, dahlias, dahlias, and geleniums and decorative herbs will delight the eye.
