Landscape design is not an area in which you can be guided solely by your own tastes. Without taking into account the all-season decorative effect, color unity and exactingness in the cultivation of certain plants, it is impossible. Do not rush "in the pool with your head"! Familiarize yourself with the most important principles of landscape design before you arrange a flower bed of perennials in your summer cottage!
Flower beds are called areas that combine decorative leafy, decorative flowering, herbaceous and shrubby plants, garden paths and small architectural forms. They can be regular - with strict compositional lines, or landscape - with smooth outlines.
The sizes of flower beds are very different - from 1 sq.m to 1000 sq.m or more. The ratio of plants with small architectural forms and green lawn may also differ. The “golden proportion” is considered the one in which the first digit is greater than the second, and the sum of the first and second digits is equal to the third: 3:5:8; 8:11:19 etc.
According to the form and method of arrangement, flower beds are divided into subspecies:
There are hundreds of species of perennial plants in the world, and they all have different requirements for growing conditions: some are unpretentious - some need regular care, some require abundant watering - some do not tolerate excessive moisture .... Therefore, in order not to destroy others when caring for some plants, group them correctly! Also, consider your busyness. Consider how much time you are willing to devote to your flower arrangements.
In general, according to the requirements, perennials are divided into three groups: unpretentious, moderately labor-intensive and labor-intensive.
The tiered (multi-level) planting allows the owners of the garden plot to view all the plants in an optimal decorative form, and the plants themselves to receive the necessary amount of sunlight without competing with each other.
Therefore, before planting, group all the plants in height - give each group its own place:
If an oval or round flower bed of perennials is arranged, then the tallest plants can be planted in the center. Plant plants of medium height around them. Undersized fill in the places left empty. If we are talking about planting like a mixboard, then plant tall plants in the background, and low plants in the foreground.
If desired, bring a few tall plants to the forefront or move aside for a solo display. They will become the nodal points of the ornament. Avoid being straight forward. Experiment!
Before you start planting plants, you need to draw a diagram of the flower garden on paper. A properly designed perennial flower bed is half the success of the whole event!
When creating flower arrangements, one should not forget about the basic rules of color harmony. After all, it is not in vain that they say that the image of a particular garden is 99% determined by color.
Before starting work, study various photos of perennial flower beds and evaluate your feelings. Remember how certain shades affect an outside viewer. Calculate everything to the smallest detail and make your choice!
Attention! The names of popular plants and the color of their flowers can be found in Table No. 1.
Unfortunately, plants that are fragrant all year round do not exist in nature. Therefore, those who want to create a flower bed of continuous flowering need to use plants of various biological groups, clearly understanding which and when look the most impressive. This is often difficult. After all, if there are no problems with achieving the effect of flowering in the warm season (tall, medium and low-growing perennial flowers for spring-summer flower beds are presented in any store in the widest assortment), then the selection of flowers for decorating beds in the cold season often puts novice gardeners in dead end. There is an exit! We offer you our interesting variations on the theme "autumn-winter". Perhaps some of the ideas will find a place in your garden!
In early autumn, the garden will be decorated with medium and late varieties of panicled phlox. By planting phloxes in groups, and planting them with bergenia, you will get a beautiful composition of perennials that require minimal care.
Extremely good in autumn flower beds and perennial bulbs: botanical tulips of various varieties and their hybrids. Year by year they will grow, turning into large curtains.
Very beautiful against the background of autumn foliage will look perennial plants for flower beds, matched to match the woody "hat": lemon yellow goldenrod, orange rudbeckia, red-brown gelenium.
Tall New England asters - one of the latest flowers, will form the basis of the garden composition in November. Due to the large number of "reserve" buds in the inflorescence, they easily withstand light frosts. Red, white, blue and pink, asters will not lose their decorative effect until the snow.
Beautiful flower beds from perennials of the "winter time" - not fantasy, but reality! There are really not so many plants that are resistant to cold, however, among them there are those that have a strong emotional impact on a person!
For example, such as the "Queens of the East" chrysanthemums. Majestic, with bright double flowers, they are famous for their extremely long flowering. The latest varieties of chrysanthemums begin to bloom in September, and finish in the middle of winter (pictured: chrysanthemums in the snow).
When fluffy snow falls, crocuses and colchicum will rivet their eyes. Their colorful pink and lilac flowers can withstand extreme cold. Powdered with snow, they only slightly adhere to the ground, after which they straighten up and stand again, as if nothing had happened.
Cyclamens bloom during mild winters from December to February. They are so beautiful that they even have an annual festival dedicated to them in England.
Ornamental shrubs will become a real symbol of the New Year. Just imagine the attractive power of scarlet cotoneaster fruits on a white blanket of snow, and you will certainly want to plant them in your garden. Successful creativity!
To diversify the landscape, it is not necessary to resort to the services of professional gardeners. Beautiful flower beds are obtained from unpretentious perennials. You can show your imagination and create a flower bed of perennials in the country with your own hands. When developing, you need to think through everything to the smallest detail - the place, shape, content, seasonality and color of the future flower garden. After getting acquainted with the basics of landscape design, you can start marking the site and planting ornamental plants.
Creating a spectacular and bright flower bed requires a careful approach to the choice of plantings. It is important to take into account the growing conditions, height, color, seasonality and duration of perennial flowering.
Perennial flower garden
The height of undersized perennial flowers for a flower bed does not exceed 30-40 cm. The following types are especially popular in gardens and summer cottages.
Primrose- undersized rhizomatous perennial with a height of not more than 30 cm. They are distinguished by a variety of bright colors, long and abundant flowering. If you plant different varieties of flowers in a flower bed (Aurikula, Fine-toothed, Julia), then you can admire the picturesque carpet from early spring to mid-summer.
Primula Auricula burgundy
Iris bearded dwarf- "garden orchid" with a peduncle height of 23-37 cm. Watercolor perennials grow well and form dense decorative plantings in a couple of years. The short flowering period is compensated by decorative leaves that remain attractive until late autumn.
Iris pygmy golovach
Aubrieta(aubrecia) - ground-blooded perennial. Bushes grow over time, forming a living carpet. Aubrieta has many small flowers of different colors - from white to blue and purple. Feature - flowering in two stages. The first - from the end of May to mid-July, the second - from the beginning to the end of September. Common varieties: Cascade, Hybrid and Deltoid.
Aubrieta "Purple Cascade"
garden begonia- low flowers for a flower bed with decorative leaves of burgundy, pink or olive color. In landscape design, three types of begonias are widely used: tuberous, ampelous and ever-flowering. The height of the bush is 15-30 cm, the diameter of the flower is up to 15 cm, the shape of the inflorescence resembles lotuses, roses or carnations.
Color variety of garden begonia
- blooms from June to September with funnel-shaped flowers of purple, blue, white or blue. Unpretentious to the composition of the soil and the illumination of the site. Terry bell varieties have a special charm. Shrub height - 25-30 cm, diameter - up to 30 cm.
Carpathian bell Karl Foster
To create a bright composition with their own hands, groundbloods are often used - beautiful short flowers in a flower bed can act as a bright accent or background of the entire composition. Ground-blooded perennials: awl-shaped phlox, yaskolka, woolly stakhis, thyme, periwinkle and creeping tenacious.
Medium-sized plants are considered to be plants with a height of 30 to 70 cm. A wide variety of species and varieties makes it interesting to combine them using different color solutions. When creating a flower garden, landscape designers choose:
Day-lily- unpretentious in cultivation, not demanding on top dressing and resistant to dry areas. The height of the peduncle is about 50-60 cm, the flowering period is from the beginning to the end of summer. The color range of daylilies is impressive.
Variety of daylily species
yarrow- inflorescences are collected in baskets. There are many varieties with white and red flowers in different shades. It is a long flowering perennial.
Yarrow ornamental garden
Phlox paniculate is interesting not only for its beautiful flowering, but also for its unusual forms of inflorescence. There are round, cylindrical, hemispherical, pyramidal and umbrella. There are early, middle and late phloxes. Popular varieties: Snow White, Selena, Tenor, Blue Paradise.
Phlox paniculata Cleopatra
Such representatives of medium-sized perennials diversify planting: Rhodiola, peony, gypsophila, iris, cornflower, chamomile, rudbeckia, echinacea, aquilegia.
Tall plants are soloists of the flower garden, setting the "mood" of the entire flower bed. They must be chosen with great care. If flowering perennials are inconspicuous, then the whole composition will lose its attractiveness.
The most beautiful tall flowers for a flower bed:
(plakun-grass) - blooms all summer, grows on different soils and is suitable for decorating flower beds of various garden styles. The height of the bush reaches 140 cm, the color of the flowers is raspberry.
loosestrife 'Lady Sackville'
stem-rose(mallow) combines elegance and simplicity at the same time. The flower goes equally well with undersized, medium-sized specimens in flower beds, mixborders and discounts. Fashionable shades of mallow: bright purple, lilac and yellow.
Terry stock rose in the garden
Delphinium hybrid- candles of inflorescences grow up to 1-2.5 m. Bright plants for a flower bed bloom in June and continue to delight with their blue for a month. Varieties of white and purple delphinium have been bred.
blue and purple delphinium
A flower bed of perennial phlox, daylily and other medium-sized ones will be beautifully complemented by tall flowers, for example: mordovnik, hybrid goldenrod, astrantia, gelenium, mullein, Japanese keria, buzulnik, dahlia.
By choosing the right varieties of perennials, the flowering period of the flower bed will be stretched from early June to mid-September. Choose your favorite perennial flowers that bloom all summer.
carnations. To create an ever-flowering flower bed with your own hands, low frost-resistant varieties are suitable: carnation grass, Ural, Fisher. It tolerates drought well, but requires regular division and rejuvenation.
Fischer's crimson carnation flowers
The height of candle-shaped inflorescences is 35-60 cm, the varietal palette includes lavender, purple, blue and pink tones.
oak sage in flower arrangement
Astrantia- unpretentious flowers for a flower bed, blooming all summer. To maintain flowering, fading flowers must be removed. Astrantia looks especially beautiful against the background of groundbloods and in mixborders.
Astrantia large - a flower of long flowering
When making a constantly blooming perennial flower bed, they also use:
Corner flower garden of continuous flowering
For novice gardeners, it is better to use a ready-made scheme for flower beds of continuous flowering from perennials. The version of the flower garden proposed in the photo changes from season to season, retaining its decorative effect.
From the photo you can see how the accents are shifting, and the overall appearance of the flower bed is changing. It is possible to slightly change the color scheme of the composition in the summer by adding varieties of bluebell, delphinium and aquilegia of a different color. The spring appearance of the flower garden is determined by daffodils, irises and hellebore.
The image of a flower bed of perennials is 90% determined by the color scheme. When developing a scheme with your own hands, it is important to consider the rules of color harmony:
Advice. Previously, the composition scheme must be displayed on a sheet of paper - indicating all the colors. A visual picture will help you navigate the arrangement of color accents.
Classification of perennials by color
The size and shape of the flower bed is selected depending on the characteristics of the site: area, configuration and location of the house.
The size of the flower arrangement should be directly proportional to the area of \u200b\u200bthe site. In a small garden, a neat, compact flower garden will look organic. On a spacious country estate, you can place several small or one large flower bed.
Choosing a place for arranging a flower garden
The composition of perennials should be placed in a place that is clearly visible from the windows of the house and from the front side of the site. When planning a drawing of a flower bed, you can be guided by the "classic" proportion, according to which:
Drawing of a flower bed of continuous flowering
The shape of the landscape element can be limited only by the imagination of the performer, the size of the site and the characteristics of the soil. Which option to choose: geometric or free figured flower garden?
Oval and round flower bed. Concentric circles define the borders of flowering plantations, creating a spectacular composition - flowering begins from the outer perimeter and reaches a peak in the very center. Plants are grouped according to periods of decorativeness, due to which, during one season, the appearance of the planting changes several times.
Flower arrangement in a round shape
The advantage of a round composition is the possibility of planting different plants. Trees and shrubs can be placed in the center, and herbaceous along the edge of the circle.
Rectangular flower garden. The simplicity of the form is compensated by the creation of unique ornaments inside the perimeter. These can be rounded compositions, diagonal lines or broken polyhedrons.
Square flower garden. Primitive geometry allows you to create vivid paintings from perennial shrubs, undersized and ground-blooded plants that bloom all summer.
Triangular flower bed. Separately blooming triangles look beautiful, only with the “angular” shape of the site. In other cases, it is desirable to arrange them into graphic outlines, for example, a star. The composition of a complex configuration requires careful selection of plants. The best choice is herbaceous perennials (daffodils, periwinkle, adonis, alissum, hyacinth).
Triangular flower beds on the site
Long flower beds. Flower beds are placed along paths, fences, serve as a frame for landscape elements or zoning of the site. The so-called rabatki are symmetrical and asymmetrical.
The choice of a flower bed option should be determined by the general concept of architectural and landscape design, as well as the pattern of a floral pattern.
Before you form a flower bed, you need to draw up a detailed plan for the composition. Below are ready-made schemes of flower beds, which take into account the flowering phases, plant height and color.
The plan of the flower garden "Path to the garden" is suitable for decorating garden paths or framing the entrance to the site. In the composition, plants are selected that are unpretentious in care.
Circuit description:
Flower framing scheme
An interesting example is a flower bed of perennials in the same color scheme. Plants of different heights are harmoniously assembled into a single composition.
The flower bed project includes:
Flower garden decoration in pink colors
The combination of perennial flowers in a flower bed with representatives of coniferous crops creates a complete picture. This is no longer just a small flower garden, but a landscape composition.
To form a flower garden and arrange a patio, the following are involved:
Patio landscaping scheme
With bright flower arrangements, you can interestingly beat garden paths, an artificial reservoir, small architectural forms, or simply decorate the front entrance with your own hands. Perennial plantings are an opportunity to admire your own creation for several seasons.
The borders of the island flower beds are smooth, beautifully shaped closed curved lines, oval in shape.
The largest plants are planted in the central part, low - along the borders.
What perennials to use?
Picking up plants with pink flowers is a simple task, there are many among the most popular garden plants - roses, carnations, lilies, phlox, astilbe.
For a minimal care flower garden, decorative stability throughout the season is desirable, that is, the plant should always look good, never look untidy, long flowering and interesting seasonal effects (autumn foliage color, fruits, etc.) are desirable.
In addition, the perennial must be non-aggressive and unpretentious (do not require frequent feeding, division, pruning, shelter, etc.), be resistant to pests and diseases.
The vast majority of perennials do not bloom for long, but you should not be sad about this: it is more correct to enjoy every moment of garden beauty, and its charm lies in continuous variability. In this flower bed, something will bloom all the time, it is especially spectacular in July.
The premieres of this flower bed are blue delphiniums. In the conditions of the Moscow region, they bloom for a month: the whole of July, starting from the end of June. The candle-shaped inflorescences of the delphinium give the flower garden a special expressiveness, but after flowering they must be removed. If you completely cut the stems, the delphiniums will bloom a second time in the fall, but this flowering will worsen the next year's flowering, so it is better to cut off only the inflorescences that have appeared. Next to the delphinium, any “chamomile” looks good, here it is echinacea.
The brightness of the composition is given by red lupins planted in front of the delphiniums, a meter-long Abendglut variety with dark red flowers in racemose inflorescences up to 40 cm long. It blooms from June for a month, if the faded inflorescences are removed, and again in August. Bright phloxes in pink tones support elegant summer flowering. In the center of the composition is planted a changeable mountaineer - a huge, constantly decorative, stable perennial.
During the growth period, the delphinium needs a large amount of nutrients. The first time it is fed at a shoot height of 10-15 cm with a complex mineral, even better - with a liquid organic fertilizer; the second time - during the budding period - use a fertilizer with a large proportion of potassium and phosphorus; the third - immediately after flowering - with potassium-phosphorus fertilizer without nitrogen for laying powerful renewal buds. Each top dressing should be accompanied by abundant watering - this rule has no exceptions. With a shoot height of 20-30 cm, to obtain powerful peduncles, thinning of the bushes is carried out, breaking the shoots in the center of the bush, leaving up to 10 shoots for varieties with few-flowered inflorescences, and up to 5 shoots for many-flowered ones. The inflorescences are tied up for the first time at a height of 40-50 cm, and the second - 100-120 cm.
Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea)
Height 1 m.
Large inflorescences with a diameter of 13 cm - pink-purple petals around a convex cone.
Phlox paniculate (Phlox paniculate)
Height 0.7 m.
Lush paniculate inflorescences of pink flowers, black-purple stems.
Blooms in July
Hosta, Hanky-Panky cultivar
An olive green leaf has an apple green center bordered by a white stripe.
Decorative from mid-June until frost
Variable knotweed (Polygonum polymorpha)
Height up to 2 m
Lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus), cultivar Abendglut
Height 1 m
Red flowers in racemes up to 40 cm long
It blooms from June for a month, when the faded inflorescences are removed again - in August
Height 40 cm
Grayish-green, reddening leaves on purple stems, light pink inflorescences in September.
Cuff (Alchemilla mollis)
Height 30 cm
Velvety leaves, greenish-yellow flowers from June to August
Height 30 cm
Very dark black-purple leaves, blooms from June for two months
Delphinium hybrid (Delphinium x hybrida)
Height up to 2 m
Blue flowers in a huge pyramidal inflorescence
White flower garden - purity and tranquility, freshness and elegance. You cannot create it by simply planting plants with white flowers in one place. Plants with gray, silvery and white-variegated leaves will make it exciting and expressive - with a white border or center, with white spots or a pattern.
The white color is especially bright against the background of dark green leaves.
Try to get the right balance between the amount of white and green. For a white flower garden, the structure, the contrast of plant shapes, leaf shapes and textures is even more important than for any other. The famous English creator of mixborders advised including small accents of blue in white flower beds.
You can experiment by adding a small amount of lemon yellow or pale orange instead of blue. If it seems to you that there is still not enough white in such a flower garden, you can increase its amount with the help of small architectural forms: a white bench, arch, pergola, flowerpot or sculpture.
Flower garden scheme 3 x 4 mWhen creating white compositions, plants of any life form can be used. Of the trees and shrubs, willow-leaved pear, willow, loch-leaved, narrow-leaved sucker, white deren "Elegantissima", exochord, action, hydrangeas, mock oranges, lilacs, spring flowering spireas are suitable. There are a lot of perennials with white flowers, these are anemones, aquilegia, asters and, astrantias and bells, cimicifuga, clematis, delphiniums, echinacea, geraniums, irises, lilies, roses, peonies, tulips, daffodils, small bulbs. Suitable leaves for such a flower garden will be provided by hosts, brunners, lungworts and chistets.
The phlox paniculata "New" has white flowers with a blue lining, quite in the theme of our composition. Echinacea and phlox bloom from July. In summer, you need to do at least two top dressings of phloxes: during budding and flowering, complex fertilizer with a large dose of potassium and phosphorus, and after flowering, complex fertilizer with an increased amount of phosphorus to prepare plants for winter. To the place here is the white-edged sedum Autumn Charm, very decorative from the moment it appeared from the ground.
The catnip blooms for a long time - from June to September. Delphiniums in the Moscow region bloom throughout July, starting from the end of June, requiring constant care, watering, fertilizing and garters. Here is a variety with light blue flowers. Variegated mountaineer, pearl anafalis (its stem and leaves are white-pubescent, white inflorescences), Variegata lightning and blue hosta are always decorative. This composition needs watering in dry summers.
Variable Highlander (Polygonum polymorphs)
Height up to 2 m
Large white paniculate inflorescences
Blooms from late June to mid-August, decorative even after flowering
Panicled phlox (Phlox paniculata), variety "New"
Height 70 cm
White flowers with blue lining
Blooms in July
Fassen's catnip (Nepeta x faassenii)
Height 50 cm
Small fragrant lavender flowers in long racemes
Long flowering - from June to September
Height 50-70 cm
Large, strongly pressed blue leaves, white flowers
Decorative all season, blooms in July
Delphinium hybrid (Delphinium x hybrida), grade Elegans
Height up to 2 m.
Light blue flowers with a black center in a huge pyramidal inflorescence.
Blooms from the end of June for 20-30 days, after flowering it is not decorative
Molinia "Variegata" (Molinia coerulea var. variegata)
Height 50 cm
Leaves with longitudinal stripes of yellowish-cream color, white spikelets
Decorative throughout the season
Ochitnik telephium, or hare cabbage (Sedum telephium), Autumn Charm variety
Height 40 cm
White edging on each leaf, flowering in September-October for more than a month Decorative from the moment it emerges from the ground
Anafalis pearl (Anaphalis margaritacea)
Height 40 cm
Stem and leaves are white-pubescent, inflorescences are white
Decorative throughout the season
Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea)
Height 1 m
Large inflorescences consisting of white petals around a huge orange-green "cone"
Blooms from late July to September
Pink is considered a feminine color: even the color of the dowry for newborn girls is pink. Psychologists say that for two out of three women this is the most favorite color. In nature, it is quite common, pleasing to the eye, nicely combined with the green color of the foliage, especially with dark green leaves.
Combinations of pink flowers with gray-green and bluish-green leaves look sophisticated. Relating to pastel colors, calm pink, like blue and pale yellow, visually enlarges the size of the garden, blurring the boundaries of flower arrangements. Pink creates a romantic mood in the garden, a feeling of harmony and tranquility. Interspersed with silvery-gray foliage and white flowers will add sophistication to such compositions.
The combination of pink flowers of varying degrees of saturation is a win-win option, the combination of pink flowers with dark purple looks luxurious. In the gray garden, Gertrude Jekyll used pink and lilac flowers to match the gray leaves.
Scheme of a flower garden with perennials 3 x 4 mOf course, the list does not end with this, at our service are varieties of veronicas and veronicastrums, lilacs, summer flowering spireas, rhododendrons, primroses, monards, loosestrife, bells, bergenia, astrantias. Many varieties of large-leaved hydrangeas have pink inflorescences, the inflorescences of almost all varieties of paniculate hydrangeas turn pink by the end of summer, and varieties of tree-like hydrangeas with pink flowers have appeared.
In July, Phlox "Dragon" blooms profusely with pink flowers. Perhaps this is the only demanding care plant in the composition. In summer, you need to do at least two top dressings of phloxes: during budding and flowering, complex fertilizer with a large dose of potassium and phosphorus, and after flowering, complex fertilizer with an increased amount of phosphorus to prepare plants for winter. In July-August, pink monarda pleases with flowers. The blood-red geranium blooms profusely and for a long time, from mid-June to August. Beautiful dark leaves of Obsidian geyhera.
Variable Highlander (Polygonum polymorphs)
Height up to 2 m
Large white paniculate inflorescences
Blooms from late June to mid-August, decorative even after flowering
Astrantia (Astrantia major), Claret variety
Height 60 cm
Dark purple flowers
Blooms in June-August for 35-40 days
Monarda hybrid (Monarda x hybrida)
Height 70 cm
Pink fragrant flowers attract insects
Blooms in July-August
Badan (Bergenia)
Height 40 cm
Attractive leaves turn purple in autumn.
Blooms in May
The plant is decorative from snow to snow
Panicled phlox (Phlox paniculata), grade "Dragon"
Height 0.7-0.8 m
Purple-pink flowers with silver-gray streaks along the edge of the petals, black-purple stems
Blooms in July
Heuchera hybrid (Heuchera x hybrida), variety Obsidian
Height 30 cm
Very dark black-purple leaves, blooms from June for two months.
ornamental plant
Blood-red geranium (Geranium sanguineum), Compactum variety
Height 30 cm
Numerous small pink flowers against a background of elegant leaves
Blooms profusely and for a long time, from mid-June to August, decorative before and after flowering
Ochitnik telephium, or hare cabbage (Sedum telephium), Matrona variety
Height 40 cm
Greyish green, reddening leaves on purple stems, light pink inflorescences in September
Decorative from the moment of appearance in the spring until the end of the season
Campanula lactiflora, cultivar Loddon Anna
Height 1.2 m
Pink fragrant bell-shaped flowers are collected in large inflorescences
Blooms for two months in July-August. If you cut off faded inflorescences, re-blooming will be especially lush.
There are plants whose main advantage is chic leaves, many of them grow with pleasure in partial shade and shade. Shade lovers rarely boast spectacular flowering, but their leaves are extraordinarily good. In the center of the composition is the imposing Kamchatka meadowsweet, a powerful plant up to 2 m tall with large five-lobed leaves.
In June-July for 2-3 weeks it blooms with large paniculate inflorescences of creamy small flowers. The soil under the meadowsweet should not dry out, insufficient watering in the heat will lead to temporary withering of the leaves and inflorescences. Another shade-lover with chic leaves is a pinnate variety. Its expressive leaves are purple when blooming, later - dark green with relief venation, blooms for 20-25 days in July with pink fragrant panicles.
Like life in the shade and black cohosh, perennials with ornamental leaves and elegant inflorescences of small flowers with numerous stamens. Calling the hosta the queen of the shade has long been a commonplace; the classic blue hosta variety Love Pat grows here. And astilbes like to grow in moist semi-shady places. Pale pink and white astilbes look elegant next to bergenia and pachysandra. Their chic inflorescences effectively contrast with the dense large leaves of the host.
The scheme of the shady flower garden of perennials 3 x 4 mAre there any cereals that like to grow in partial shade? One of them is a graceful hakonechloa. A compact bush grows in one direction, asymmetrically, its bamboo-like foliage forms an unusual cascade. Here the frost-resistant Aureola variety with long golden leaves with green longitudinal stripes is used. Hakonehloa looks especially good at the front edge of the flower garden, where it shows the effect of a waterfall.
Everyone loves flowers. A flower bed of continuous flowering can give a lot of colors to your garden. Indeed, well, what a charm this blooming flower bed, playing with many colors, is in a summer cottage or in a personal plot! Such beauty could rightfully be proud of any summer resident - flower grower. If such a flower bed is your dream, then opt for perennials, they will only gain strength and beauty from year to year, unlike annuals that live and bloom for only one year. Caring for perennials is minimal - they need timely pruning, watering and top dressing.
In this article, we will present you with suitable planting schemes, note some of the nuances, and tell you about perennial plants for flower beds. Let's start with the last one.
Our article will present a diagram of a continuous flowering flower bed for beginners. But first of all, it is worth talking about the flowers that will inhabit such a flower bed. Perennials are divided according to the principle of height - tall, medium and short. Let us consider in detail the last species - undersized plants.
These include plants that do not exceed 30 cm in height. They are excellent for creating flower carpets. These are flowers such as:
There are several rules for planting undersized perennials.
In order to achieve the lush color of such crops, it is simply necessary to plant them on the sunny sides of the site, otherwise you will not see the expected result.
From fertilizers, focus on flower preparations, nitrogen fertilizers will only lead to a set of green mass with flowers.
In order for a visual carpet of flowers to turn out on a flower bed, they need to be planted close to each other.
So that the weeds do not ruin your offspring, timely weeding of the flower bed is required, in addition to the appearance, this will simply prevent the weeds from drowning out your flowers.
Medium-sized perennials.
These are plants 30-80 cm high. They can be planted in a flower bed both alone and in the form of several tiers with undersized and tall counterparts. These include flowers such as -
When landing on a flower bed, you need to leave a place for their further growth, otherwise they will block their undersized colleagues.
Tall plants.
These are plants with a height of 80+ cm. Without such giants, a beautiful multi-tiered flower bed cannot be arranged in any way. These are beauties like:
A flower bed of continuous flowering perennials has its own characteristics. For example, a perfectly blooming flower bed can only be obtained on the sunny side of the site, keep this in mind when choosing a place for a flower garden. After the point in this matter, it is still necessary to zone the place of the future flower bed for each type of plant. If you take into account the nuances of flowering perennials, you can easily achieve lush, beautiful and continuous flowering.
Before planting, it is necessary to fertilize and lighten the soil by adding sand, expanded clay and brick chips to it, they will serve as baking powder.
You will have a flower bed with a number of advantages:
First, decide what effect you need in the flower bed, it can be the seasons, an imitation of a stream, etc. Then you can start choosing the right plants. Let's give an example of a flower bed with seasons.
Gentle spring.
One of the signs of spring is just the primroses blooming in the flower bed. These include primroses, pansies, daisies, crocuses, tulips, lungwort, daffodils. Having blossomed first, they will delight you with their flowering for a month. Behind them, in May, it is worth waiting for the flowering of late varieties of tulips, lupins, peonies, aquilegia. And towards the end of May, hyacinths, royal hazel grouse, and others join them.
Summer shift.
In summer, there is a real abundance in terms of flowering plants. Zinnias, levkoy, lyatrises, delphiniums, amaranths, hibiscuses, roses, and marigolds begin to bloom in a lush color.
This can also include plants such as echinacea, lily, monarda, lamb and rudbeckia. With good care, not only the appearance of their flowers will please your eyes throughout the summer, but you will also feel their most pleasant aromas.
If suddenly there are gaps between perennials, you can easily fill them with annuals. They will not spoil the appearance of your flower bed at all.
Autumn time.
When the annuals fade, but there are still enough warm days of early autumn and Indian summer, these days your flower bed will be decorated with the flowering of carnations, begonias, ageratum, remontant roses. Planted asters, sage, coreopsis, stonecrop and gelenium will add color to the autumn carpet. And until the very frosts, craspedias, decorative onions and yarrows bloom.
It is worth noting that a flowerbed of continuous flowering can be created with your own hands. If your site allows you to make a large flower bed, then its scheme may look something like this:
In the center we plant tall species.
Closer to the edges we have a carpet of undersized perennials.
But when choosing color combinations, it is important to observe harmony, a symphony of colors. If possible, we express color accents.
If you plan to place a flower bed closer to the fence, then it is worth planting tall flowers near it, then we harmoniously lower the tiers in the direction from the fence.
We give examples of simple schemes for your flower beds.
First, decide on the main colors, then you can already add harmoniously combined shades to them. Usually blue or purple colors are taken as the basis, warm and bright shades are added to them.
We give you an approximate combination of colors and shades in the flower beds:
One of the rules is to plant flowers of the same shade in large groups, then they look much better, otherwise the flowerbed from afar will not have the look that you would like to see. By shades, they are most often used in pairs of blue / yellow or red / green.
If the flower bed is planned to be in a recreation area, then it should be made more monochromatic, it is worth focusing on blue with purple or blue with red flowers. This option will soothe and tune in to relaxation after a hard day.
White flowers will perfectly dilute, if necessary, intense colors that can become somewhat aggressive in their intensity. As a background, flowers with grayish foliage are most suitable, black flowers will give the flowerbed the best shape, and in general, gray, black and white colors will perfectly fit into any color symphony.
If you are a romantic or a dreamer, a pastel-colored flower bed will perfectly help to create such moods.
Monocolor flower beds with different shades of the same color look great.
Flowerbeds with warm shades visually decrease, and with cold ones, on the contrary, they increase.
If you also plant plants with beautiful foliage in the flower bed, then it will perfectly decorate the flower bed before and after the flowers themselves bloom.
More diagram examples:
It's just great if you independently developed the scheme of your future flower bed. If you know some rules, this will be completely easy to do. And we will tell you the design options for a dry stream, gates, tell you about the options for flower beds in partial shade or tell you a flower garden with fast-growing plants.
A dry, but beautifully designed stream bed will honorably replace a real source or spring for you. A competent approach to this issue will more than pay off with a stunning effect.
The channel itself is created from elongated pebbles of various sizes, and if translucent blue or blue glass beads are thrown between them, then the effect of the presence of water will be provided to you!
And now we turn to the design of the channel with plants. A flowerbed with a continuous flowering cycle will fit very well here. We will show you an approximate landing scheme:
Bamboo - leaf-grate grows near the water, so its presence will become a harmonious touch in a dry riverbed. It can be replaced with an ostrich if desired.
Bearded irises will look best at the mouth of your stream.
And opposite them, lobelia will look great.
Poskharsky's bell will perfectly fit into the very bed of the stream.
Aubrieta hybrids can be picturesquely scattered between planted perennials.
To the right, opposite the shaving, a large-leaved plant, for example, a large-leaved brunner, which also has bright flowers, will harmoniously look.
Opposite the Brunera, it is great to plant the awl-leaved bryozoan.
Toward the end of the channel, you can place a creeping tenacious.
And the last chord in the floral ensemble can again be an ostrich, or the same bamboo - leaf-grate.
You can add or subtract something in this scheme to your taste, this is just a suitable sample.
The arched gate on the site just asks to be decorated with a frame of flowers. Curly perennials are the best way to cope with this task. Properly distributing flowers to achieve continuous flowering, throughout the summer season, your gate will only change its images with shifting flowering of flowers.
So, first we divide the flower bed into tiers.
On the first tier there will be undersized perennials. For example, let's give Pozharsky's bells, stonecrop creaker, cushion aster, oak sage, rock stonecrop, fox-tailed feather bristle.
You can put yellow yarrows on the middle tier, and place flowers closer to the gate, for example, spikelet liatris, long-leaved veronica, rod-like millet. To the right of the gate we will plant chamomile-like flowers - cushion aster, New Belgian or brilliant rudbeckia.
And we decorate the last tier with tall perennials, they can even hide a fence. Stock looks great here - roses, David's budley, sunflowers, as well as glossy rudbeckia.
And now the turn has come, in fact, to the climbing plants with which the gate arch will be entwined. A climbing rose on one side, and Jacquement's clematis on the other, in the center of the arch they will meet and intertwine.
The material of the fence is completely unprincipled for such designs; these flowers will decorate any base.
After winter, I especially want to enjoy spring colors, and of course, flowers as soon as possible. We look forward to the flowering of primroses. In the first year, perennials will not bring you such joy, but from the second year you can already count on them with might and main, especially if your flower garden is located on a warm and sunny side, near a fence, or near a wall, as well as next to conifers.
The scheme of such landings differs little from the above, but still has its own zest.
The same care for all representatives of the flora will greatly facilitate your country life. And behind the flower garden there may be an unpresentable structure or fence disguised by it.
Well, there is no suitable open and sunny place for a flower bed on your site, but you want to have flowers, what should you do? Walking past neighbors' lots and admiring their flowers? But no, in partial shade it is also possible to form, with the right selection, a very good-looking flower bed.
The secret of such a composition lies in the right combination of colors and simple greenery. With the function of pleasant greenery, the function will perfectly cope, and the magnificent dicentra will take on the role of background flowers, it begins to bloom in May, and has a very presentable appearance. Red epimedium is also useful for the same background purposes.
Liriope muskare-like on the middle tier will be a background plant.
In custody.
We have given you only relative schemes, you can easily, having understood the principle of their formation, you can make and implement your schemes and your flower beds, then they will be original and in the singular for the whole district. In general, with our instructions, you will definitely succeed in creating a bed of continuous flowering.
You can also watch a video on this topic: Flowerbed of continuous flowering.
15 basic schemes for a flower garden will help you make a beautiful flower bed with your own hands - always use any, even the smallest place in the garden, to plant your favorite flowers.
Chubushnik. . Holly. Mirabilis. Sage. Coreopsis.
Before starting the breakdown of the flower garden, we will calculate on paper how many plants we need. We divide the flower garden scheme on a scale into squares with a side of 1 m, mark the contours of planting each type of flower, calculate the area for each.
Rose. Petunia. Thuya. Delphinium. Lilies. Astra is a perennial. Cuff.
The calculated planting area for each type of flower is divided by the average planting rate per 1 sq. m: for large 100-120 cm - 2-3 pieces, medium 40-90 cm - 4-6 pieces, low 20-40 cm - 7-9 pieces. and dwarf plants 5-20 cm - 16-20 pcs.
Virginia. Rose. Sedum. Balsam. Woolly cleaner. Miscanthus sinensis.
We transfer the flower garden scheme to the garden plot. The contours of the flower garden can be marked with sand, chalk, sawdust.
Juniper. Highlander. Sage. Bloodroot. Helenium. Formium.
We prepare the ground - we dig to a depth of 40 cm and select the roots, or remove the top layer of turf and fill in specially prepared soil. We mark the contours of planting for each type of flower.
Hibiscus. Kufei. Penstemon. Vatochnik. Petunia.
Water flowers 2-3 hours before planting. The best time to plant flowers is early morning, evening or when it rains.
Malvaviscus. Fern. Mouse hyacinth. Sunflower. Goryanka. Lemon verbena.
We start planting from the center of the flower bed to the edges. When planting from pots at a seedling, we straighten the roots, tamp the soil at the neck of each plant.
Geichera. Lilac. Space. Baptisia. Hellebore. Flowering deren.
After planting, we water the flower garden abundantly, if necessary, we support the seedlings with a stick. Cover from the hot sun during the day.
Thuya. Buddley David. Zinnia. Goldenrod. Echinacea purpurea.
Don't worry if a plant doesn't take root, using seedlings with closed roots - from pots, you can plant a new plant at any time.
Tagetis. Sedum. Daisies. Wand millet. Budley. Sage.
Take your time to expect instant results from setting up a new flower garden. In the first year, the flower garden may seem empty (free areas can be temporarily filled with annuals), but after a year or two the flower garden will show itself in all its splendor - just wait until perennials grow in the flower bed.
Blooming apple tree. Kalina. Clematis. Action. Bell. Veronica.
Plantarium. Coreopsis. Petunia. Creeping tenacious.
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