Flowerbeds and flower beds on the site
Do-it-yourself flower beds are one of those things that any owner of a garden plot is happy to do. When decorating flower beds in the country, you can show imagination and make all your dreams of a blooming garden come true.
The device of flower beds and flower beds can be made from both annual plants and perennials – each of them will be truly beautiful.
One-dimensional flower garden arrangement
When arranging a one-dimensional flower garden, there are two ways of planting flowers. The first way is to create an arbitrary flower arrangement. Composite flower beds are closer to the natural, natural style. Planted in the usual way, but according to a pre-planned plan.
The second way is a predetermined ornament, most often geometric. Ornament flower beds are called carpet beds. These are emphatically ceremonial, elegant flower beds, but with a clear hand-made style. The ornament on such a flower bed is marked in advance with the help of pegs and a rope.
Multidimensional flower garden
For the device of multidimensional flower beds, in the most general case, a frame is made in advance, and then a mesh covering. Soil is poured between the mesh and the frame, in certain places this mesh is cut, and flowers are planted there. Cases, however, vary. In the simplest versions, the frame is not used, but a mosquito net is used instead of a wire mesh.
Materials for the device of a flower garden
Sometimes you may need gravel or pebbles for the arrangement of free flower beds – they will help create decorative dumping. It makes sense to use any additional materials for arranging a flower garden in the country in the case of flower beds: for arranging sides.
For the construction of the sides, you can use natural stone, brick, large river pebbles, concrete, logs with and without bark, boards, thin beams, forged elements, you can build a wattle fence from the branches, or bend a decorative fence from the strip. Small sea pebbles can be used to decorate bricks or concrete. There are also many ready-made decorative fences on sale: in the form of picket fences, logs, repeating flat figures.
Flower garden or flower bed decoration
It is always important how the flower garden is decorated. Competent flower garden design gives at least 40 percent success. Combine vegetables and flowers in flower beds. Try viewing the flower beds as small paving stones. It resembles garden modules, but the module is a rather large object located in the break in the paving, but the flower beds-elements are tiny modules, located in the same way as individual tiles in the paving could be located.
Use garden sculptures and figurines in flower beds. Sometimes objects that are atypical for flower beds can be considered garden sculpture, but, nevertheless, it is worth trying them in this role. For example: an old globe, lamp, ladder or vase.
Use colored gravel to decorate flower beds.
Tree-trunk circles can be turned into flower beds for shade-tolerant plants.
A fashionable idea of decorating a flower garden with your own hands – only from wild flowers framed by natural stone or in a log.
Introduce plants with «exotic», unusual «appearance». These can be the most common plants, but with unusual colors for them, for example, pink calendula. Combine flowers, shrubs and short conifers within the same flower garden.
Let some flower beds in your garden be green, that is, composed only of decorative deciduous perennials. As an exception, when arranging perennial flower beds, you can add plants with green flowers.
Organize a large flower garden at the intersection of several main paths. Then he will be kind «main square».
There are ready-made special forms that can be called a mini-flower bed, moreover, a volumetric one, and at the same time a container and a garden figure. For example, an elegant decorative well in which you can plant flowers, and you can put a container with a flower in a decorative bucket of the well. Such volumetric structures are great for decorating empty places in the garden, especially if such places have a small area..
