With the arrival of spring, many summer residents go to their garden plots. For any amateur gardener, it is important not only to grow vegetables, fruits and fruit trees on their plot, but also to give it a beautiful appearance that will delight not only the owners of the garden plot, but also all the neighbors and guests who come to the dacha.

Decorating a garden is a kind of art. On your site, you have the opportunity to create unforgettable paintings from flowers, expressing your inner world with them. It’s not without reason that they say: “An artist paints his pictures with paints, and a florist paints with flowers.”

In this regard, summer residents planning to decorate a flower garden on their site have questions: what types of flowers are best to buy to make their site more beautiful, where and when is the best time to plant them, what can you use to decorate your flower garden?

Selecting a design and drawing up a layout

Let's look at how to decorate flower beds with your own hands step by step. First of all, it should be noted that the concepts of “flower garden” and “flower bed” are identical. The flowerbed has the correct shape and is necessarily fenced with a border. But when creating a flower garden, you don’t have to adhere to the rules and give free rein to your imagination.

When growing a flower garden, you must take into account the following factors: the general appearance and area of ​​the garden plot, the number of buildings and structures located on it, the varieties of fruit and vegetable crops planted in different places on the plot, as well as your financial capabilities.

There are directly opposite ways to arrange a flower bed on a site:

  • matches the style and design with the appearance of the garden plot
  • on the contrary, a deliberate and complete contrast with the garden plot

It should be noted that there can be many flower beds in the garden, differing in style and design.

Preparations for creating a flower garden at the dacha with your own hands should begin in winter.

By the time you design a flower bed, you need to clearly understand what types of flowers will grow on it, and how it will look in general.

Moreover, you need to purchase flower soil and specialized fertilizers for planting.

Making a flowerbed with your own hands

Creating a flower bed with your own hands is similar to transplanting a plant into an ordinary flowerpot and takes a lot of time. However, there is nothing complicated in this process.

To create a flower bed in your garden plot you need:

  • Prepare and clear a place for it;
  • Remove the top layer of soil;
  • Be sure to do drainage. Broken bricks and crushed stone are quite suitable for this;
  • Place a border along the edges of the flowerbed;
  • Add new soil;
  • Let it sit for at least 10-12 days;
  • Start planting flowers.

Selection of plants for a flower arrangement

The flowers in the flowerbed must look beautiful and please the eye. However, you don’t need to plant all the flowers you have on it. If you do not have the opportunity to constantly travel to the dacha, you should select varieties of flowers that do not require special care.

To create a beautiful flower bed, you must follow these tips:

  • It is necessary that the plants are adapted to the same conditions. That is, flowers with the same requirements for care, weather conditions and soil composition are planted in one area;
  • select plants that will bloom throughout the entire period;
  • be sure to take into account the size of the plants;
  • connect plants according to color combinations.

Most often, from eight to fifteen species of plants are planted in one flowerbed. When creating a flower garden, you must definitely use the principle of multi-tiered plants.

The tallest flowers are placed in the center, and low-growing plants are planted along the edges, as if framing them and the entire flower arrangement. The side from which the flowerbed is open to view is also of great importance.

In addition to flowering plants, the flowerbed may contain decorative foliage plants, usually perennials.

Note!

It should be noted that the process of creating such a composition is a little more complicated and requires a lot of imagination from the owner.

Planting

Plants are planted in two ways:

  • seeds;
  • seedlings.

If you decide to plant seeds, you need to prepare everything in advance. In early spring, flower seeds are sown in high-moor peat.

Depending on the duration of flowering, plants are divided into three types:

  • annuals (need to be planted annually);
  • biennial (bloom profusely in the second year);
  • perennial (bloom constantly, becoming more beautiful and luxuriant every year).

When planting seeds, you need to separate one group of flowers from another, leaving space between them. This is done so that the grown plants do not interfere with each other.

Note!

If the flowers grow too densely, they need to be torn out or some of them transplanted to a new place. Planting seedlings is much more convenient. In this case, you will not have to wait for the seedlings to appear and the result will be visible much faster.

Flower beds require constant care. First of all, it is necessary to regularly inspect the flower garden and remove wilted inflorescences. This encourages perennial flowers to bloom again and helps maintain the beautiful appearance of the plant.

Interesting design of a flower garden at the dacha

As a rule, organizing a beautiful flower garden does not require a lot of financial resources. To decorate a flower garden, you can use many homemade products. This will give your flower garden a special individual style and make it look like a fairy tale.

To create a flower arrangement, you can use any material, depending on the imagination of an amateur gardener.

You can use single “pots” and furniture that has served its purpose, parts of wood, unnecessary materials for construction, almost all types of transport in which flowers can be planted.

Note!

Tires are very popular for creating flower beds. They can be placed one on top of the other in the form of a fun slide. Think about what things you don't need at home. They can be very useful in a summer cottage when creating a flower garden.

The advantage of such flower beds is that they are mobile and, if necessary, can be easily moved to another place. It should be noted that photos of flower beds decorated in this way will be simply stunning.

Decorative elements when creating a flower garden

To add originality and zest, you can use special garden figurines, children's toys and decorations. Very often among the flower beds you can see figures of various animals and birds: hares, deer, squirrels, hedgehogs, swans, titmice, as well as heroes from fairy tales: gnomes, Snow White, the Frog Princess and others.

In many cases, small toy windmills, fountains or castles are used in such compositions.

And illuminated lanterns located around the perimeter give the whole picture an additional effect and elements of a fairy tale.

You can also organize a flower garden in the courtyard of your home. Carefully thought out and made with soul, it will not only provide aesthetic pleasure, but will also make the atmosphere around your home magical and unforgettable.

Photos of flower beds with your own hands

The best decoration for a dacha or garden are flower beds that bloom all summer and are fragrant. Properly placed and beautifully decorated flower arrangements will decorate and ennoble your dacha.

We will tell you how to make a flowerbed with your own hands later in this article.

Preparation for work and rules for designing a flower bed

First, choose a place suitable for decorating a flower bed. Decide what flowers you would like to see and what shape to give to the flower garden.

In order for the flowerbed to fit organically into the landscape of your site, take into account such factors as: the size and shape of the land, the location of buildings, and the illumination of the future flowerbed. The shape of the flower bed can be different, it all depends on your preferences.

It is better to make flower beds along paths and fences long.

Place single-tier flower beds of continuous flowering near the garden house.

Multi-tiered flower beds with climbing plants are ideally placed along fences, walls and around a summerhouse; the vines will create shade and coolness, ideal for relaxation.

If you have a pond on your property, be sure to decorate it with flower arrangements. Open free areas can be decorated with closed, fantasy flower beds with flowers of the same variety.

When creating flower beds and flower beds with your own hands, make plans for future plantings. By transferring your ideas to paper and carefully thinking through color and stylistic solutions, it will be easier for you to bring your ideas to life.

In multi-tiered flower beds, plants are combined in height and planted as follows: ground-growing (purslane, saxifrage), low-growing (nasturtium, petunia), medium-growing (geranium, chamomile), tall (ferns, ornamental trees).

Consider the flowering time - the best option is a constantly blooming flower bed.

Original flowerbed design

When decorating flower beds at your dacha with your own hands, think about fencing for flower plantings. Fences will add additional decor and complement the flower arrangement.

The fencing can be various objects, such as stones, tiles, bricks and other available materials.

Stone fencing

If there are bricks left on your site after building a house, use them to decorate your flower garden. When making a flowerbed from bricks or stone, you will need cement mortar and bricklaying skills.

It will be enough to lay two rows of fencing and a beautiful flower bed is ready. The design with wild stone will be very original, such as slate, granite, cobblestones of various shapes.

Compositions from tires and bottles

Creating flower beds from unusual things such as old tires and plastic bottles has become extremely popular. Using a creative approach, you can make luxurious compositions from these items.

In the photo of the flower bed you can see the use of bottles. Fill the bottles with soil before burying them to avoid deformation.

Note!

Flower beds made from tires will serve you for many years. You can create multi-tiered compositions from old wheels of different diameters. If desired, tires can be painted with bright colors.

The wheels can also be hung as flowerpots; plants with flowing stems would be ideal for such a flowerbed.

Furniture and appliances in the design of a flower object

The use of interior items in garden decor is becoming increasingly fashionable. Chairs, sideboards, dressing tables, iron beds, baths, washbasins and even toilets are used.

For example, the outer surface of the bathtub can be painted or tiled, filled with earth and placed near a pond. Plant petunias or violets in chests of drawers with open drawers.

For more durable use, it is better to coat wooden objects with moisture-resistant products.

Note!

An old bicycle or even a small car can become a flower garden. You will need paint and a little imagination to transform your dacha or garden into something extraordinary. Photos of flowerbed design will help you with this.

Choice of colors

When choosing flowers for future compositions, take into account not only the color, but also the duration of flowering, the height of the bush, the possibility of proximity, requirements for watering and sunlight.

By carefully choosing plants and putting your soul into the design of your summer cottage, you can turn your wildest ideas into reality.

DIY photo of flower beds

Note!

A flowerbed is a universal decoration for any garden or summer cottage. The shapes, volumes, and filling of the flower garden can vary greatly. There are hundreds of options for creating flower beds with your own hands. Among them there are simple and complex, flat and embossed, ground and suspended, large and small. Making a flowerbed with your own hands is quite simple, the main thing is to carry out preliminary planning in order to understand exactly what result you want to achieve.

In addition to the aesthetic function, flower beds and flower beds perform another important job, combining the buildings on the site with the surrounding territory into a single ensemble. Form flower beds so that the flower beds do not look like oases, but look harmonious on your site and give it a special charm and comfort.

To create a flowerbed near your home with your own hands, which will become a decoration and will delight you with flowers all season long, you need a plan. Draw a flower garden: this will allow you to visualize the image and formulate the requirements for the flower arrangement. To visualize the color combination, use colored pencils.

Whatever flower garden you want to create, before you start decorating it, you also need to answer a few questions:

  • what size flower bed is needed;
  • what form is preferable;
  • where to place a homemade flowerbed so that it pleases the eye, and the flowers are in a comfortable area for them;
  • what is original on your site that can be used for a new flower garden.

To successfully create any flower bed, you need to remember the simple rules that every landscape designer uses. Remember the architecture of the finished flower garden and the final “picture” in the garden.

The finished flowerbed should fit into the space of your site, without being out of style. The task of a flower garden is only to complement the garden landscape without interfering with the perception of other objects. Homemade flower arrangements can be flat or three-dimensional, framed with or without decorative elements, clear-cut or without specific outlines.

Flowerbed sketch

If you don’t have the energy to plant the entire area at once, just master a small part of it first. It is better to master one small area and make the flower garden truly beautiful than to stretch it over half the area.

Place plants in the flower garden based on their growth and size. The most beautiful and harmonious flower beds are those that combine mixed plantings. For example, flowering plants and ornamental grass, annual and perennial flowers, etc.

Flowerbed - piano

To create a multi-tiered flower garden, place ground cover and low-growing plants in the foreground, followed by medium-sized flowers, and tall perennials in the last row. It’s good when plants are in harmony with each other in color and shape, or vice versa, they contrast.

Video - Flowerbed from a chair

You can be inspired to create a hand-made flower bed by an old cart wheel, a non-working bicycle, a rusty bucket, a basket, a pot-bellied samovar, a broken clay pot or any other household object.

From items that are unsuitable for normal use, you can create stylish and funny flower beds that will delight you and amuse your guests all season long.

Forms of flower beds and their filling

A regular flower bed implies a strict shape and a clear geometrically correct pattern. But the flowers in such a flowerbed should bloom at the same time, so this is not the best option for a summer residence.

Just like a carpet flower bed, since its pattern requires constant painstaking care.

A flower garden of irregular shape is not limited to a certain perimeter, creating the impression of natural vegetation.

Flowerbed - bicycle

The ideal basis for such flower beds is various frost-resistant perennials planted in a group. They are complemented with seasonal flowers so that the flower garden pleases the eye all season long.

A raised flower bed is well suited for small areas, saving space and making good use of all levels of garden space.

Video - Flowerbed from dead wood

Several small flower beds at different levels will create bright accents in the dacha. Small flowers with bright inflorescences are used for “pendants”.

An option that always looks advantageous is a monoflower. For it, one type of plant is used, shading them with a variety of decorative elements.

A homemade vertical flower bed is secured with a frame and involves complex work to create an original shape.

Herbaceous, climbing, quickly renewing deciduous plants are used.

An arabesque flower garden is a flower bed of an unusual shape (butterfly, animal, etc.) filled with small annual flowering plants and requires constant attention to maintain its shape.

Video - Flower beds made of stones

An example of creating a flower garden in an old sink

Let's look at an example of creating a flower bed from an old washbasin.

The shape for the flower bed can be any. But the mechanism for creating a “beauty corner” is always approximately the same - reinforcing the lower part of the container or object, arranging drainage, laying the soil, planting flowers, care.

Work progress

We take an old sink (or any other container suitable for planting plants), prepare it for a “new life” (painting, decoupage, stone lining, etc.).

We cut a piece of chain-link mesh to the size of the bottom of the container to reinforce the lower surface, and place it in the sink. The same effect can be achieved using plastic, the surface of which must be drilled to create a strong sieve that will hold the structure suspended.

We form the first layer of the flowerbed from small stones, sand and sifted peat to create drainage to drain excess water. Pour soil mixed with pebbles on top in a ratio of 3 to 1. The soil needs time to shrink. Depending on the type of soil, this takes about a week to a week and a half.

We sow flowers or place teenage seedlings in the ground.

We install a sink on our site. This stage can be carried out first if the container chosen for the flower garden is large.

Caring for a homemade mini-flower bed

A homemade mini-flower bed needs special care. It is smaller than a regular flower garden, and therefore dries faster, so it would be a good idea to provide it with constant watering or set up an automatic water supply system. But, of course, it is better to choose the frequency of watering and the location of the flower garden at the planning stage, so that the light-loving plant does not end up in the shade and vice versa.

Making an original flowerbed with your own hands is very simple, and it will delight you for a long time.

Spare no effort in creating beauty, because fresh flowers and unusual landscapes lift your spirits so much that even the most overwhelming gardening feats will seem pleasant.

Also read the article on our website - do-it-yourself homemade products for your dacha.

Video - Flowerbed made from old jeans

Video - How to make a flowerbed with your own hands

Many modern summer residents, trying to decorate their plots in an original way, choose annual and perennial low-growing flowers for flower beds, blooming all summer or most of it. If you are one of these people and want to create your own inimitable flower garden masterpiece, read the descriptions and photos of the most interesting, popular types of low plants. Understand the criteria for their selection, planting methods, and look at design options for impressively beautiful flower beds.

Flowerbed of permanent flowering

Types and varieties of low-growing plants that bloom all summer

Plants with a stem height of up to 30 cm are considered low-growing. Lovely flower beds are made from either one variety of such flowers or using several types. Multi-tiered compositions bordered by miniature flowering specimens and borders edged with compact bushes look great in summer. Many varieties of perennials are long-flowering, and there are even more of them among annuals.

The flowering border is magnificent

Annuals or perennials - selection criteria

Many gardeners consider annual low flowers for flower beds to be the best option for decorating their plots, which:

  1. Quickly (during the planting season) they allow you to improve the territory by creating a beautiful composition.
  2. They have an incredible number of varieties, which makes it possible to select specimens for any zone on the site: sunny and shady, arid and waterlogged, with fertile and poor soil.
  3. They do not require special care, fertilizing or frequent watering in summer.
  4. They give creative people room for exciting experiments with the annual update of garden design.
  5. It is possible to correct mistakes in the selection of varieties and colors as early as the next season.
  6. Suitable for growing by novice gardeners, as they are mostly unpretentious.

Bright flowerbed of annuals

Fans of perennials refer to the unjustified loss of time, money, and effort when annually selecting plants for a flower bed, hassle with seedlings or sowing seeds in the ground. Of course, perennial low-growing flowers for the flower bed, blooming all summer, make it possible to avoid these worries for several years. But gradually they lose their decorative value, and once every 5-7 years they have to be renewed, spending more effort than planting annuals.

Perennials allow you to create flower beds that have a special charm, but they do not provide the same brightness and variety as annuals. The argument that weeds cannot grow under mats of perennial plantings is also controversial. Yes, under dense clumps the germination of weed seeds and the development of emerging weeds is suppressed. But if they have managed to make their way to the sun, it is much more difficult to destroy them than in annual plantings.


Perennial aubrieta

It is your choice to give preference to annual or perennial flowers, or perhaps a combination of both. In any case, it would be useful to take a closer look at some of their species.

The most popular unpretentious annuals

Purslane- one of the most beautiful annual low-growing flowers for a flower bed is known to many simply as a “rug”. In fact, its creeping succulent shoots with peculiar leaves, similar to fleshy needles, form a continuous carpet, covering the ground. Numerous flowers of various tones can be simple or double, depending on the variety. The most popular are double species, which bloom buds in early summer and are decorative until autumn frosts:

  • Pun;
  • Cream;
  • Mango;
  • Flamenco.

Variegated purslane rug

Purslane is unpretentious, easily takes root on sandy, rocky soil, does not need fertilizing or frequent watering. But it needs the sun: in the shade the shoots stretch out, become thinner, and the flower loses its attractiveness. Moreover, the buds of most varieties of purslane open only in bright light, which is why it, even planted in a sunny place, is not so picturesque on a stormy day. However, there are varieties with flowers that do not close even in cloudy weather:

  • Sundance;
  • Cloudbeater.

Charming Flamenco

And if you are planning to use annual low-growing white flowers to decorate your flowerbed, it is difficult to find anything more suitable than the purslane variety with the telling name White-flowered.


This purslane should be called Snow White

Tagetes (marigolds)- an extremely unpretentious low-growing flower that even a child can grow. Marigolds do not require specific soil or regular watering. But for all their unpretentiousness, they demonstrate excellent decorative qualities, which is rare. From the first days of summer until the autumn frosts, they delight with bright flowers of various colors in warm tones, which makes the flowerbed “sunny” even in bad weather.

Two types of marigolds differ in compact bushes: rejected and thin-leaved. Both groups are incredibly cute and attractive.


Low-growing tagetes in border design
Marigolds rejected
Marigold thin-leaved

Examples of other long-flowering annuals

Petunia- a rather capricious favorite to grow, a favorite of landscape designers and gardeners, there are many varieties, distinguished by various shapes and colors. One can distinguish luxurious large-flowered and modestly but abundantly flowering types of petunias. It is worth noting that the latter suffer less from rain, which is destructive for terry specimens. But you can also find terry petunias that are not afraid of rain (Butterfly F1, for example), which will become garden favorites.


Butterfly F1 - tenderness itself

Lobelia- these purple, white, and more often blue low-growing flowers are quite suitable for a flower bed, coming to life at the beginning of summer and fading only by October. Ball-shaped miniature (10-20 cm) lobelia bushes love sunny places with loose, but not very fertile soil such as loam. Timely watering is important in care, especially in hot weather; the ground under the lobelia should be constantly moist.


Lobelia, Blue variety

Calceolaria- an unusual low-growing plant that will decorate a flowerbed in a shaded place. Calceolaria is not just shade-tolerant - direct sunlight is generally contraindicated for it. This exotic plant loves high soil moisture, but it should be watered with caution: if water gets on the velvety leaves, they significantly lose their decorative properties.


Exotic calceolaria

Iberis Grows equally well in the sun and in a shady place; it likes light, breathable soil. It has small, fragrant, often snow-white inflorescences, but there are varieties with pink, carmine, and lilac colors. Flowering lasts two months, starting in May. Goes great in combined flower beds. For example, the combination of white Iberis and small red carnation flowers for a flower bed is a very advantageous option.


Delightful snow-white Iberis

Dianthus annua(Chinese). The charming neighbor of Iberis can please you not only with red, but also with pink, white, purple flowers that have a pleasant aroma. Loves the sun, resistant to frost. Being a perennial by nature, it can sometimes overwinter.


Chinese Carnation Scarlett

Beautiful perennials - charming permanence

If one day you successfully select perennial species of low-growing, long-blooming flowers for your flowerbed, you can get rid of the spring hassle of landscaping it for a number of years and enjoy the beauty of your plot from the first days of summer. Various carnations, resilient asters, saxifrage and other beautiful representatives of the flora are popular. It is worth paying attention to at least a few favorites among them.


Beautiful flower beds are the visiting card of the site

alpine aster- a herbaceous plant 10-30 cm high. The best place for it is openwork partial shade, well-drained soil. Flowering can last up to three months, the longest in Rosea.


Aster alpine Rosea

Dianthus- an unpretentious low-growing perennial, the dark greenery of which is completely covered with purple or pink small flowers during the summer month and a half. Along with perennial arabis, pyrethrum, and primroses, it can act as beautiful border flowers for edging a flower bed or path.


Carnation grass as a border

Begonia everblooming is rightfully the leader among flowers for flower beds that bloom all summer. Begonia plantings blaze with a variety of elegant inflorescences from May-June until late autumn. It can bloom almost all year round if it is moved to a warm room for the winter. Not only the flowers are exceptionally decorative, but also the leaves of begonia, pleasing to the eye with shape and color.


Terry ever-blooming begonia

Based on the color of the leaves, green-leaved and bronze-leaved hybrids are distinguished. The height of low-growing bushes is usually within 15-30 cm. Begonia is not indifferent to growing conditions. The soil for the flowerbed should be rich in humus, slightly acidic, moisture-absorbing, but not waterlogged - excess moisture in summer causes root rot.

About 600 hybrids of ever-flowering begonia are known. Among them are medium-sized (up to 25 cm) series of varieties:

  • Ambassador;
  • Bada bing, Bada boom;
  • Senator.

Ever-blooming begonias in a flowerbed

Dwarf varieties:

  • Quinn;
  • Cocktail;
  • Ray.

Ground covers

Ground cover candidates for a place in the flower garden

Among the low-growing perennials there are many ground cover or carpet flowers for continuous flowering beds. It would be worth getting to know a few representatives of this group.

Phlox subulate. It is extremely unpretentious, forms clumps up to 10 cm high. Loves the sun and dry soil, afraid of stagnant water. Already from the beginning of May, for two months it is covered with inflorescences of red, white, pink, and lilac shades. The second wave of flowering occurs in September.


Phlox subulate

sedum(sedum). Among the half a thousand varieties, you can choose sun-loving (most of them) and shade-loving specimens. Sedum does not need watering or fertilizing, it overwinters without shelter - isn’t it a godsend for summer residents with limited time? Moreover, there are so many varieties of sedum that only from them alone can you create a motley colorful flower bed.


Sedum prominent

Duchesnay. A rapidly growing ground cover, sun-loving, thriving on any soil. But in order for the duchesne mat to be dense, the ground under the bushes must be constantly kept moist. The original leaves and fruits of Duchesnea are very decorative in summer. However, it is worth remembering that the berries, which are somewhat reminiscent of strawberries, are inedible.


Duchesnea indica

Aubrieta. A bright representative of carpets, ideal for rock gardens. Can be used as a frame for flower beds and in independent plantings. It blooms for a month and a half from May, and after pruning it can repeat this process. Overwinters with leaves that look attractive in early spring. It must be borne in mind that aubrieta grows aggressively, like duchesnea - both of these species can suppress and even survive their neighbors.


Aubrieta Light Blue
Aubrieta Lucas

Small garden - low-growing bushes in a flowerbed

In garden design, not only herbaceous plants are often used, but also beautiful trees and shrubs. If you have an idea to use them in landscaping your area, then low-growing perennial bushes that bloom all summer are suitable for a flowerbed in the form of a miniature garden. And creeping and dwarf conifers will add an elegant green note to the motley composition. Among them the following types can be distinguished.


Mini-garden of begonias and conifers

Heather. Evergreen shrub with a low growth rate. Requires well-drained, moist soil and grows well in sun or partial shade. For the winter it is recommended to mulch and cover it


Heather

Gualteria recumbent. Creeping evergreen groundcover shrub that blooms beautifully in summer, including September. The dark green leaves are very decorative; by winter they turn bronze-red. Gualteria prefers partial shade, fertile acidic soil with good moisture capacity, and does not tolerate drought.


Gualteria recumbent

creeping willow. An attractive dwarf slow-growing shrub with thin elastic shoots. In early May, before the leaves bloom, it is covered with silvery, and in summer - yellow, earrings. Light- and moisture-loving, loves fertile sandy loam soils, does not tolerate heat and dry air.


creeping willow

Dummer cotoneaster. Dense spreading low growing shrub. In mid-May it is covered with numerous white flowers. Later, the decorative appearance of the bush is supported by multiple light red fruits. Loves sun, partial shade, undemanding to soil, drought-resistant.


Dummer cotoneaster

Spiraea japonica. Compact creeping bush. Numerous pinkish inflorescences forming in mid-summer adorn the bushes for a month and a half. Original golden yellow leaves. Spiraea is undemanding to conditions, winter-hardy, and sun-loving.


Spiraea japonica

Juniper horizontal. Dwarf forms are good for flower beds, for example, the Blue Chip variety. This is a slow-growing conifer with bluish coloration of dense, prickly needles. Light-loving, not picky about soil, frost-resistant.


Juniper horizontal

Planting low-growing flowers that bloom all summer

If you are going to create a colorful corner on your site that is always pleasing to the eye, you should understand how to properly arrange a flower bed so that they bloom all summer and even part of the fall.


Imitation stream

Principles of arranging flower beds

For a competent approach to arranging and filling a future garden masterpiece, it is important not to miss the following points:

  1. Before running to the store to buy seeds of low-growing flowers for a flower bed, you should clearly determine the location of its possible location, study what the lighting and shade conditions are, the characteristics of the soil, and its moisture content. This is necessary for the correct selection of plants that will be comfortable in this place.
  2. Beginners should limit themselves to two or three types of plantings - this is enough to design a beautiful flower bed. For your first flowerbed, it is better to choose unpretentious varieties of flowers that do not require special care.
  3. It is important to choose species with similar requirements for growing conditions for one flower garden.
  4. It is advisable to use group plantings of the same type of low-growing plants to avoid indiscriminate mixing of different species.
  5. It is necessary to take a responsible approach to the selection of color combinations for flowering plants. Excessive brightness and variegation are inappropriate and may indicate poor taste. Combinations of various bright and white colors look organic.
  6. To make a flower arrangement look spectacular all summer long, you need to choose plants with different flowering periods.
  7. When arranging flowers, you need to take into account the viewing angle. If the flowerbed is visible from all sides, taller specimens should be placed in the center. If its view is possible from one side, the place for tall specimens should be the background.
  8. To achieve a decent result, preliminary planning of the flower garden with the help of a landscape designer or on your own is required.

Combinations of bright and white tones are spectacular

Schemes of continuously blooming flower beds

To plan your flowerbed yourself, starting in the winter, you will have to arm yourself with colored pencils and draw out its plan in detail on paper. The sketch should indicate:

  • contours and dimensions of the flower garden to scale;
  • location of dominant and complementary plants;
  • distances between them;
  • color scheme (adjust it if necessary).

Important! It is necessary to take into account that low-growing perennials, as they grow, will eventually begin to take up more space - on the plan, and subsequently when planting, leave free space between them, temporarily filling it with annuals.


Flower garden of perennials

By deciding to design your flowerbed yourself, you will save a significant amount on the services of a landscape designer. However, for this you need to have a certain artistic taste and flair.

For a beginner in design matters, the task may seem difficult, but at first you can use ready-made diagrams and plans found in gardening books or those suggested below. Here, for example, is a diagram of filling a flower bed with only perennials.

Below is a simple flower bed for beginner gardeners, where the dominant low-growing plants are blue delphinium (1) and red paniculata phlox (2). When decorating a flower bed, they are planted first. Garden geraniums (3) of purple color are placed in front of them. Frame the flower bed with ground cover, yellow mantle (4).


Scheme for beginners

When deciding how to choose perennials and annuals that bloom all summer for your flowerbed, you can use the information about them presented above, as well as study the assortment of plants presented in the diagrams and choose samples to your liking. The most flexible filling option is the joint planting of bulbous plants, annuals and perennials. Below you can see a few more simple schemes.


Scheme of a mixed flower bed of continuous flowering
Planting in pink tones
Flowerbed of annuals

Ready-made projects are not a dogma; it is not necessary to implement them with utmost precision. You should not give up on your plan if you were unable to buy planting material for any plant shown in the diagram. Replace it with another with similar characteristics, coloring and bring the chosen scheme to perfection. And for creative inspiration, watch short videos.


Shaded flower garden plan

Video: Examples of decorating flower beds with low-growing flowers

Video: Decorating flower beds with marigolds

Low-growing flowers, both annual and perennial, are a wonderful choice for your site. Don’t be afraid to experiment, show your imagination, creativity, enthusiasm and create an interesting, original, exemplary composition that you can be proud of all summer.

Many owners of their own plots pay a lot of attention not only to the harvested crop, but also to the aesthetic component. Relaxing and working in an environment that is much more interesting. If you don’t want to spend a lot of money on, then a great solution for you is to create original flower beds and flower beds with your own hands from scrap materials. Photos on the site show a huge selection of such homemade structures. Let's figure out how you can make a beautiful flower garden from improvised materials, and also consider the most interesting ideas and designs.

Before you start creating flower beds and flower beds at your dacha, you need to decide on the layout. You can create the project yourself. Here are the main tasks you will have to solve:

  • distribution and planning of planting patterns;
  • choosing plants for flower beds;
  • design selection.

There shouldn’t be any difficulties in choosing beautiful ones, because on the Internet you can find a lot of photos of simple flower beds and flower beds with your own hands. Many interesting ideas can be found in landscape design and gardening magazines.

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Now let's figure out how a flower garden differs from a flower bed:

  • a flowerbed involves observing the geometric lines of the territory on which the plants will be planted. Similar elements of landscape design can be rectangular, round or other regular shapes;

  • For flower beds, shape is not important. In this case, the design can take on a wide variety of configurations.

To plan a flowerbed you need to know some important details:

  • correct selection of color design for the flower bed. Be sure to consider their flowering duration;
  • the number of species matters. You should not plant many different varieties; it is enough to use 2-3 crops. In this case, you should take into account how the plants get along with each other;
  • The choice of flowerbed shape can be seen among those already developed by other designers. The selected configuration should not look out of place in the overall garden ensemble. It must fit into the overall concept and style.

Features of the flower garden layout can be seen in the video:

The easiest way to design is. You can plant compact and low-growing crops along. A flowerbed in the shape of a rectangle is called a ridge. You can plant both plants of the same height and several tiers of different heights.

Do-it-yourself types of beautiful flower beds in front of the house are popular. Such decorative elements are called mixborders.

Beginners should start with a simple flower garden - a polyflower garden. This is a simple option, but looks great when in bloom. Common options include a mini rose garden, which can contain several varieties of roses.

It is important to choose the right flower seeds for planting in a flower bed. It is important to pay attention to the height of an adult plant, the time of its flowering, and also be sure to observe the planting time.

For your information! You can create extraordinary flower arrangements with your own hands. A chic flower garden can be created using decorative stones or even a chain-link mesh. Low-growing varieties, such as edelweiss, can be planted in raised flower beds. And when decorating a flower bed, it is not necessary to use only flowering crops; climbing plants will also look great.

Do-it-yourself flower beds and flower beds from scrap materials: photos and varieties

When choosing the idea of ​​flower beds for your garden with your own hands, you need to understand the classification of these elements. These are the types of flower beds and flower beds:

  • traditional flowerbed looks like an ordinary one, on which flowers are planted, replacing each other and blooming throughout the season;

  • chameleon option suggests contrasting plantings. That is, one shade of colors is abruptly replaced by another;

  • irregular flower garden consists of plants that are planted in a certain sequence. At the same time, flowering changes evenly throughout the season;

  • in a regular flower garden all plants bloom at the same time, but varieties may differ in size and variety;

  • discount- it's in the form of a tape. Most often located along paths or. Available in two types - double-sided and single-sided. The double-sided version is a composition of low plants in the foreground and tall plants in the background. To create them, annual crops are often used;

  • carpet flower bed allows you to create a luxurious carpet of flowers that form beautiful patterns;

  • arabesques represent a floral design option that can be used in the center of a flower bed or as an independent element. It comes in round or oval shape, with an unusual flower pattern. For this option, carpet and annual crops are used;

  • mixborder- This is a mixed planting of ornamental crops. It does not have clear lines and geometric shapes. The design is characterized by arbitrary and soft lines.

Flower beds can be decorated with different flowering crops for open and closed ground. These can be perennials or annuals. Flower arrangements of the same color, but in different shades, look impressive.

The design process begins with the selection of suitable material. Further finishing methods, location and even types of flowers depend on this. It is worth using, since the soil must also breathe.

A variety of types of flower beds for DIY flowers: photos of interesting solutions

There are many varieties of flower beds. In addition to the main options, it is worth noting a few more. You can see them in the photos of flower beds and flower beds. You can do many options with your own hands.

Here are the most common compositions:

  • monoflower created from plants of the same color palette or one variety;

  • rock garden consists of stones of different shapes in combination with ornamental plants of alpine flora. At the same time, an imitation of the nature of the Alpine mountains is created;

  • curbs made in the form of narrow floral stripes. They frame paths and flower beds. The width of the border can vary between 10-50 cm;

  • ring compositions frame individual objects. For example, fountains, trees or statues;

  • for registration vertical elements Experienced gardeners often use vertical flower beds and flower gardens with their own hands. The photo shows the most original ideas. In this way, you can decorate partitions, screens, walls and arches;

  • - this type of flower bed is used in areas where it is not possible to arrange the composition using standard methods. These can be paved areas, squares, courtyards or paved alleys. To create it, a large container of soil is used for planting;

  • popular multidimensional compositions. They are created using additional elements.

How to make a flowerbed at the dacha with your own hands for beginners: useful recommendations

You can make many options for flower beds and flowerbeds with your own hands from scrap materials. Photos of simple and interesting designs can be viewed on our website. In this case, it is not at all necessary to be a specialist, you just need to have imagination and acquire plant seeds and certain materials.

Before you start creating a floral ensemble, you should take care of the following points:

  • plants are selected taking into account color, growth conditions and flowering periods;
  • It is important to choose the right place. This area should be protected from winds and also from sunlight in hot weather. It is better to plant plants on the western or eastern side of the territory;
  • special attention should be paid to soil preparation. It is better to use a mixture of leaf soil with admixtures of turf and sand. You can apply complex fertilizers. The area for the flower garden must be well weeded, and the soil. It's better to install ;
  • The dimensions and shape of the flower bed must be planned in advance.

How to make a simple flower bed can be seen in the video below:

Flower arrangements are made on the basis of earthen embankments. To create original designs, you can use unusual objects. Tires, carts, bottles, flowerpots and even pieces of furniture will be used. Also used are elements that would seem to be inappropriate, for example, stumps, boots and parts of plumbing equipment.

More traditional fencing materials include plastic, wood, brick, bottles, tires or tiles.

Another simple flowerbed option:

The area of ​​the future flower bed needs to be cleared of turf. In this case, it is necessary to cut off a layer of at least 10 cm. Expanded clay or gravel is used to install drainage. Then the area with drainage is covered with soil. After this, you need to wait two weeks until the soil settles.

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