Just look at the photos of decorated flowerbeds, buy, or grow seedlings of flowers, and plant them in the same manner. In fact, everything is much more complicated. A flowerbed is, in fact, a small biocenosis, in which a complex of factors is important:
- Illumination( selection of plants for a flowerbed depends on this);
- Type and condition of soil( acidity, structure, organic components);
- The interaction of plants with each other;
- Vegetation rate, flowering period of plants;
- Humidity and presence( or absence) of watering.
In addition, when making a flowerbed near the house, you need to take into account the style of architectural structures located on the site. For example, a flower garden in the style of "country" will look ridiculous next to the house in the Victorian style.
How to start making a flowerbed in front of the house
Lighting
Types of lighting:
- bright light( at least seven hours a day, the plants are under direct sunlight);
- diffused light( light shading from branches of bushes or trees), direct rays illuminate the site in the morning or evening hours( 2-3 hours);
- penumbra( without direct sunlight, but the lighting is bright);
- shadow.
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Soil
First you need to determine the type of soil and its acidity - these factors can be changed or corrected. Too heavy substrates or loams add sand and compost for better aeration. Acidified soils improve by adding chalk.
Any type of substrate must be further enriched with mineral( complex) and organic( manure, bird droppings, compost) fertilizers.
Water and Humidity
Water should not stagnate in the ground, this also applies to melt water: putrefactive processes can begin in rhizomes, tubers or perennial bulbs. Also, when there is an excess of water, the root respiration of the plants becomes difficult or blocked.
Ideas for flowerbed design
As examples or samples of flowerbed design in the country, or near the house, you can use photos with decorated flowerbeds and flower beds. Images will help to come up with and choose composite solutions. You can, taking a sample of photos of decorated beds, change the color scheme of the composition, or use fragments of your favorites to create a flower garden.
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Decor
You can decorate flower gardens with objects of natural origin( stones, stumps, tree trunks) or artificially created( garden figures, lanterns).Decorative items, in addition to the decoration can carry practical benefits. Gravel-laden ground will lose less moisture, and weed grass will not grow on the flowerbed.
Trunks of trees can serve as a support for plants with climbing stems( clematis, bindweed, rank, sweet pea).
Selection of plants
When choosing plants, their relation to light is taken into account.
- Light-loving - you need a lot of sunlight, otherwise they bloom badly or do not bloom at all. These are decorative representatives of the Asteraceae family( asters, dahlias, majors, sunflowers, chamomiles, marigolds, echinacea, gerberas, yarrow).Roses, gladiolus, foxglove, all representatives of the family Labium flowers( lavender, salvia, thyme).Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, junkies;
- Light shading( shade tolerant) - lilies, hydrangea, violets, scilla, peonies, catchment, primrose;
- Shade-loving plants( do not tolerate direct sunlight and can burn leaves) - astilba, host, ferns, mahonia, lily of the valley, bergener, periwinkle, rodshire.
Plant size and growth rate is another important factor for the correct decoration of the flowerbed near the house. Stunted and creeping plants are planted in the first row, otherwise they will not be visible. Ground cover representatives of the plant kingdom will help to fill the space between the larger relatives. This will give the flowerbed a more picturesque look and eliminate the appearance of weeds.
Note: ground cover plants grow quickly, so you need to make sure that they give the opportunity to grow their neighbors in a flower bed.
Shrubs and decorative-leaved plants for the decoration of flower beds near the house
Unlike flowering plants, the advantage of decorative-leaved ones is that they decorate a flower garden from spring to late autumn.
Breeders bred many varieties of dwarf and creeping shrubs, the height of which is 20–40 cm.
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Many representatives of the family of cereals( fescue, feather grass, praying, veynik, pike) belong to the herbaceous ornamental leaf plants. Although in the period of flowering their inflorescences in the form of panicles, tails or feathers will be decorated with any flower garden.
Video examples of the design of beds in the cottage
