Perennial flower beds: planting schemes and ideas

The best perennials

To make a beautiful flower bed of perennial flowers with your own hands, you need to be very careful about the choice of plants. It is important not only to take into account the timing of flowering, but also such characteristics as size, height of flowers, requirements for soil and illumination, their combination with other decorative and garden elements. As you know, any blooming composition consists of several types of plants, and the general appearance and splendor of not only the flower garden itself, but also the entire landscape depends on how correctly they are selected and located on the flower bed.

The most popular and unpretentious perennials are:

• from undersized species: crocuses, snowdrops, primroses, hyacinths, carnations;

• of biennial species: daisies, forget-me-nots, pansies;

• from flowers of medium height: daylilies, phloxes, irises, peonies, tulips, daisies and bells;

• tall flowers: garden lilies, roses, lupine, delphinium, aconite, decorative blooming sunflowers;

• you can fill the space between flowers with undersized or ground cover species: muscari, thyme, undersized asters, salvia, stonecrop, periwinkle.

When creating flower beds with your own hands in the country, you can use not only garden flowers, but also medicinal plants, which will then replenish your home medicine cabinet. Echinacea, calendula, sage, lavender are the most lush and aromatic medicinal species.

Also, do not forget about evergreen ornamental deciduous shrubs and conifers. After all, in winter they will form the basis of the composition. And in the summer, you can dilute the flowers with contrasting greens with the help of ferns.

Video "Tips for Gardeners"

Demonstration video with examples for gardeners to care and create a flower bed.

Flower bed for beginners

For gardeners who do not have experience in arranging flower beds with their own hands, it may seem that creating a flower bed from perennials is a laborious and difficult task. In fact, everyone can make a bright composition of perennial flowers in the country, given the following tips:

• any flowering flower bed begins with drawing up a diagram in which the location of the plants is precisely indicated - in the future, the diagram will help not to get confused during planting;

• when drawing up a diagram, it must be borne in mind that at least 3 species should bloom at one time, and make a selection of plants by flowering time;

• the scheme should also take into account the selection of plants according to the color palette;

• when creating a flower garden with your own hands for the first time, you should give preference to unpretentious species that do not require complex care;

• blooming compositions look more spectacular when plants are planted in small groups, and visually create a bright spot - this is also taken into account when drawing up a diagram;

• you should not overload the composition with a large number of flowers and plant them tightly to each other, since they grow over time - the scheme should take this into account;

• so that flower beds with perennials are always blooming and beautiful, you need to select for planting only those plants that are suitable for this soil.

But the most important thing in creating a flower garden scheme is to correctly calculate the number of plants, taking into account the dimensions of the flowers and the size of the flower bed itself. So from tall species (1-2 m) in one composition there should be 2-5 plants, medium-tall (50-90 cm) - 5-10 plants, low-growing (20-40 cm) - 8-12 pieces, ground cover - 12- 18 pieces, bulbous - 15-25. This scheme allows you to form harmonious blooming compositions.

Continuous flowering flower bed

A flower bed blooming all four seasons is the dream of every summer cottage owner. And in order to turn it into reality, and to make such a flower garden with your own hands, you just need to make the right combination, taking into account the flowering period of each perennial. The main condition for composing a continuous flowering composition is the presence of at least one flowering group. To make such a flower garden, you need to know the flowering time of certain plants:

• in early spring (March) snowdrops, crocuses, blueberries, hyacinths bloom;

• in April - lungwort, daisies, primroses, pansies, muscari, early tulips and daffodils;

• May and June are the most blooming months, May is the bloom of lilies of the valley, tulips, daffodils, forget-me-nots;

• in June, peonies, daisies, bells, poppies, daylilies, delphinium, lupine, petunias and many other flowers bloom;

• in July - late lilies, phloxes, nasturtiums, dahlias, astilbe, roses;

• in August - phlox, roses, astilbe, some lilies, dahlias, and also rudbeckia, gladioli, summer chrysanthemums begin to bloom;

• in September - marigolds, asters, dahlias, late chrysanthemums, and also tea roses bloom for the second time;

• in October, only late dahlias, some varieties of roses and chrysanthemums bloom.

So that in winter the flower bed does not seem empty, evergreen coniferous and decorative deciduous crops should be added to the composition: undersized juniper, boxwood, spherical holly.

Landing patterns

Any blooming composition should begin with building a scheme, since it is the scheme that allows you to avoid mistakes in the process of creating a flower garden in your country house with your own hands. When developing a scheme, it should be remembered that flowering flower beds are of two types: regular and irregular. For giving, of course, irregular (mixborders) are more suitable, where there are no specific rules for planting flowers and everything depends only on imagination. However, flower beds of the correct shape in the country are quite common.

The scheme should include absolutely all flowering and decorative elements. In order to arrange the plants in the flowerbed according to the scheme, it is important to know from which side it will be viewed:

• the scheme of a square flower garden, viewed from all sides, as a rule, provides for several tiers of plants, of which the highest are planted in the center, and from them lower rows are located to the edge;

• the scheme of a rectangular flower bed should take into account the location of the flower garden on the site: if this is the front part, then it is better to plant the same type of flowers in rows, if the flower garden is located near the fence, walls, then the scheme is different - the plants are located from high to lower;

• a round flowering flower bed can be planted both in regular rows and in bright spots - examples of the ideal scheme of a round composition: the center is filled with bright large flowers (tulips, roses) along the edge - undersized flowers (daffodils, asters, salvias), and between them muscari or thyme ...

Often, novice gardeners, when drawing up a scheme, do not take into account the color scheme, but meanwhile, the scheme of a flower bed for a summer residence must take this moment into account. This is very important when creating mixborders with your own hands, where the blooming composition is planted chaotically, and if the palette is not followed, it turns out to be too variegated. A flowering composition for a summer residence can also consist of plants of the same species, and in this case, drawing up a diagram is not required. The flower garden looks luxurious, filled, for example, with roses or tulips of different varieties and shades.

Flower bed care

As a rule, perennials are not very whimsical, however, in order for a blooming composition to serve as a decoration for a summer cottage all season, you need to make some efforts:

• systematically loosen the soil and remove weeds - it is better to carry out this procedure in the evening or early in the morning;

• constantly monitor the state of flowers and eliminate faded inflorescences in time;

• flowering perennials need regular feeding with special mineral mixtures during budding and flowering;

• watering is carried out as needed, while it is important to ensure that water does not fall on the flowering rosettes;

• if there are open areas in the flower bed, mulching can be done - this procedure will prevent the soil from drying out and weeds growth.

In late autumn, all perennials, except for evergreen shrubs, need to be cut off, and some thermophilic varieties should be sheltered for the winter. When performing these simple activities, a fragrant, profusely blooming flower bed in the country, made with your own hands, will delight you for many years.

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