Beautiful flower beds: expert advice

For those who want to plant beautiful flower beds in their house or summer cottage, but have never done this before, first it is better to use the advice and recommendations of specialists. Over time, you will gain some experience, and you will also be able to independently compose unique compositions.

For inexperienced gardeners

At first it is best to choose a small area, it is much easier to take care of it, it will be better if it is away from trees. Choose plants that do not require special care. In the center of the flower bed, place tall perennials, these can be asters, hydrangeas, roses, phloxes, hosts, etc.

As a supplement, medium-sized perennials are used - lavender, mountain cornflower, irises. For the outer layer, the lowest plants are selected according to the type of veronica, medunica, acene, etc.

Tall plants are best planted from each other at some distance, while low-growing plants in a group of 3-5 pieces. When you plant plants in tiers, the flower garden turns out to be more voluminous and visually more elegant.

How to choose a form for a flower garden

Classic flowerbeds are already pretty tired of everyone, island flowerbeds look much more interesting, the borders of which will not have symmetrical shapes. You can equip mini-beds near the stumps or even in the stumps themselves, create cascades near the brick and stone walls. “Fences” from tall perennial flowers look interesting.

When choosing a form for your flower garden, be sure to consider the buildings that are next to them. It can be both at home, and arbors or even a garden swing. This option looks especially harmonious.

If earlier flower beds were equipped in car tires, now you can build entire cascades from them. Also around the flowerbed you can cover wood stumps. Remember how important it is to choose the right size of a flower garden, if it is very small, but located next to a very large structure, it will look, to put it mildly, ridiculous. The same applies to cases when huge flowerbeds are broken in small summer cottages.

When choosing soil for flower beds, be sure to clean it of weeds, stones and excess litter. Large clods of earth are crushed with a shovel. Before planting, the soil should be dug up, then it should be carefully leveled with a rake, and if necessary, fertilize.