We really want our garden plots to please us not only with a good harvest, but also with the bright appearance of beautifully decorated flower beds and flower beds. The right combination of shape and color and, of course, the types of annual and perennial ornamental plants will allow us to create our own masterpiece of landscape design.
There are many options for designing a flower garden and flower bed in your own personal plot. Some people prefer alpine slides, others like to grow flowers in separate large flowerpots. I would like to note that vertical flower beds are very popular today.
Natural materials such as wood or stone are very suitable for growing and beautifully decorating flowers planted in the garden, so if you have a desire and need ideas, let’s look at the options and photographs.
We choose the design taking into account the area of your site, climatic conditions and most importantly, listening to your inner gardener.
Decorating a flower bed with stone
Stone is one of the favorite materials used by landscape designers when decorating flower beds, flower beds and even miniature flowerpots. And this is understandable; durable “rocks” will serve us reliably and for a long time, without losing their attractiveness and withstanding the effects of any climatic conditions.
You can not only use stone to lay out the “borders” of your lawn or flower garden, but also decorate it in an original style. Large and small pebbles will look very interesting; such material is in harmony with succulents and perennial flowering plants.
If you use large stones to decorate a flower bed or masonry around ornamental plants, you can paint or whiten them, this will protect the surface from wear and make them uniform in color. This design will contrast beautifully with the soil and greenery.
Another original and interesting idea, in my opinion, is the idea of creating stone flowerpots from hollow bricks or concrete blocks. You can use them to make a small corner flower bed or give it any other shape - it’s like with a Lego toy - it’s interesting even for adults)
Stone design for a flower garden looks advantageous on almost any garden or summer cottage, especially if yours has some uneven spots. Just make the wall of this “tier” stone - and in front of you is no longer an annoying mound, but a designer flowerbed created with your own hands. By the way, plants with bright colors, for example, or multi-colored ones, are very suitable for her.
Using stone, you can also decorate the area on the shady side of your country house. Properly selected plants that do not really like excess sunlight will find their place on a small stone “island”. And since the stones on the soil will become a protective layer from the rapid evaporation of moisture, we will avoid frequent or heavy watering near the house.
Even small space in your garden can be turned into a wonderful relaxation area, which will look great and placed on summer period pots with indoor flowers, and small garden lanterns or figurines.
If you need to decorate, or rather transform, the drainage system, while solving the problem of the appearance of puddles and at the same time giving a very aesthetic appearance to the structure itself. Stones can be taken of absolutely any shape and size - here you should start from “what is” and from your fantasies.
You can also arrange a flower bed using artificial decorative stone, simply by purchasing it at a hardware or specialty store in any color, shape and size. So we just give freedom to our inner designer and create beauty with our own hands.
How to make wooden flowerpots
The combination of natural wood and fresh flowers looks very harmonious. A flower bed designed or created using this material can have any shape and, by the way, you can use recyclable wood, for example, pallets or ordinary boxes. Of course, it is recommended to pre-treat the wood with a special solution to avoid rotting or deformation from contact with a damp environment.
Wooden flowerpots are one of the simplest and most convenient ways to decorate a flowerpot in your garden, especially if you buy ready-made frames of the desired shape. Such structures are convenient to assemble, and if they have a bottom and are not very large, then we can put them together with the planted plants in a greenhouse or winter garden for the cold period.
It is important to remember that wood requires special treatment. In such flowerbeds it is better to grow plants that do not require abundant watering.
We, as designers, are very pleased with the fact that this material can be painted in any desired color and create an entire composition in the same style and color. You can assemble a flowerpot in several tiers, or a single long one, placing it on the windowsill. This option is well suited for those who grow.
And if you are lucky and in your family there is the owner of golden hands, then “order” him a whole bench-flower bed made of wood, I think this will be your favorite relaxation spot and an excellent solution for decorating a flower garden on your personal plot.
In some options, wood is used only as a lining for ceramic or metal flowerpots to make them warmer and more natural in appearance. According to landscape designers, wood very correctly emphasizes both the lush greenery and bright colors of the flower garden.
Vertical flower beds
If on your garden plot there isn’t a lot of free space, but you still really want to create a flower garden, then vertical flower beds are for you! This option is also perfect for zoning - you can use it to fence a porch or gazebo, decorate an empty wall, or even “hide” it beautifully.
Now it is very fashionable to create hanging panels from fresh flowers or use hanging pots and vases. This will save space and decorate yours in a very original way. country house or an apartment, but in this case you need to choose good fasteners to securely fix the structure.
There is a great idea for creating a whole vertical bed, on which you can grow not only flowers, but also fresh herbs and your favorite ones. By posting wooden boxes in a checkerboard pattern and securely fastened, cover their bottom and walls with insulation and fill them with soil for seedlings - now you can plant the selected plants and enjoy the result.
You can also fill vertical space, for example, decorate a wall with flowers, using a wooden or metal frame. And if you have a climbing flowering plant, then the composition will be an excellent decoration for a gazebo, a veranda, and even a porch.
It is very convenient to use, so to speak, a “movable” frame for vertical flowerpots, but such a wall requires very reliable materials and furniture wheels. Of course, you will have to tinker, but you will be able to move such a flower bed to any place in your house or on your summer cottage.
Another huge advantage of vertical flowerpots is their easy and convenient use in your city apartment, for example on a balcony or loggia. Try to design a “shelf” with succulents like this, you will probably like it.
Alpine coaster
An alpine slide or rock garden is a very popular way to design a flower garden from lithophytes and plants adapted to the alpine and subalpine zone. In creating it in mandatory used natural stone. This solution is perfect for decorating corners and for decorating artificial ponds on your site.
An alpine slide on the shore of an artificial reservoir will look win-win; here, of course, the requirements for the quality of stone and installation materials are increased, but you will have your own garden of Eden! Proper drainage will allow you to grow such a flowering beauty as, which does not like “top” irrigation, and its roots will get moisture from a sufficient depth.
Make a small rock garden using different colored rocks and succulents. To do this, by the way, you don’t have to replant your cacti in the soil, but place them among the pebbles directly in pots, lowering them into shallow (at ground level) holes, and in winter, take them indoors until the next season.
Is there a free corner in your summer cottage? Let's decorate it with stones and ornamental plants. Plant bright ones there, or even better, “send” bright green ones for the summer; this, of course, is a capricious plant, but its aroma and flowers will undoubtedly delight you.
The installation of an alpine slide as a decoration and an additional drainage layer for the drainage system will be an excellent technical solution to the problem of accumulation of excess water and at the same time will truly decorate your garden or summer cottage.
In the case where the terrain on the site is uneven, you can play with this fact with a very positive result. Try to arrange a stone patio or an open area for picnics, and decorate the slopes in the style of a rock garden, this way we will not only strengthen the “walls”, but also decorate everything in a very original way.
Don’t forget the main rule of creating and decorating “beautiful” places on your site - do what you like, and if you want your own alpine slide, you can make it even a hole) even in several tiers. Stone gardens are both simple and cozy - and here you can safely give free rein to your fantasies.
Personally, I like the idea of creating an alpine hill on my site just because I can include my favorite evergreen shrub in its composition - with it the flowerbed will be beautiful and bright all year round, and not just in the warm season.
In our lives we always need to find a place for something beautiful, and flowers, like nothing else, can delight and decorate our world with bright colors and magical aromas. Some people choose , others those that are more or less unpretentious in growing, it doesn’t matter! The important thing is that they lift your spirits. And of course - do not forget about timely and correct weed control.
Owners of suburban areas do not count on the help of landscape designers, but prefer to independently create a creative fairy-tale garden, which is unthinkable without flowers. If you are planning to build flower beds with your own hands in the courtyard of a private house, photos and descriptions will help you choose the type, shape, material, place for picturesque flower beds, and give you ideas for their design. Take as a basis ready-made solutions, add your ideas and create an oasis that blooms all summer long.
Choosing a place for a flower bed in the yard
When planning to plant a flower garden in front of the house or a flower bed in the garden, you need to carefully choose the place where the planned flower arrangement will be located.
Floral yard design
What influences the choice of location for a flower garden
When choosing a place for a garden masterpiece in a private yard, you need to consider the following factors:
- Microclimate - quantity sunlight, humidity or dryness of the soil, its acidity, fertility. This will help you outline the idea of a flower garden and choose the right plants for it.
- The presence of a background for the composition, its material, color, texture. Based on the characteristics of the background, you can choose the color palette of the plants to be planted, mentally mark the border, consider whether it is worth making it rigid, and decide on the type of fencing.
- Viewpoint. This is the place from which you will most often glance at your property. This could be an entrance gate or a seating area.
Choosing a suitable location is very important
Considering that giving people beauty and pleasant emotions is the main purpose of any flower garden, you should start choosing a location based on the vantage point. To do this, you need to analyze which places in your yard you visit most often, and place the blooming decor opposite such places. If you prefer to spend most of your time in the house, sitting with a book by the window, a flower bed under the window is the most acceptable option.
Island of waters window
The best places for a flower garden in the local area
It’s good when space for a flower garden is left at the stage of building a house. But in a private yard the choice is limited: paths, buildings, a platform or a garage for a car occupy a significant area. However, you can almost always find a piece of free land to plant ornamental plants. When deciding how best to place a flower bed in front of the house, you need to remember the following:
- Most flowers are sun-loving - the best area for such will be the area in front of the southern wall of the building. However, some of them cannot tolerate prolonged insolation, then areas near the western or eastern wall of the house will be more suitable.
- Flowers for the most part do not like wind or drafts - flower beds should be located on the leeward side of the building if possible.
- Many flowers do not tolerate stagnant moisture in the soil - low areas near the house are not for them.
- Excess moisture, dangerous for the root system, can also form if rainwater flowing from the roof falls in the immediate vicinity of the flower bed. Needless to say, it is completely unacceptable if it pours onto the plantings.
Location in front of the house
Returning to the concept of viewpoint, we can conclude that good place and a wonderful backdrop for the elegant flower bed at the front of the house is the green lawn in the front garden.
No one coming to the house or passing by the yard will be left indifferent by the modest fence of the front garden, along which climbing roses are planted.
The location of the flower bed near the porch of the house can be called successful. A virtuoso gardener will be able to create a creative carpet composition here, where the flowers will form the inscription: “Welcome.” But for the first experiments you can choose more simple options, looking at the photo below.
If they reign in Dor paving slabs or concrete, and there is no free land left for a flower bed near the entrance to the house, containers will help out.
Successful areas for flower beds on a personal plot
For flower beds in the courtyard of a private house, you can find many suitable places, based on the above requirements, taking into account the viewpoint. The main role of the flower garden here remains to decorate the landscape and create a positive mood among the owners. Thus, flower beds near the gazebo or in the recreation area will provide an opportunity to enjoy the beauty and aroma of flowers while drinking tea or having fun outdoor gatherings with guests.
Other options for placing flower beds are also good. A flower bed along a garden path made of any material will enliven, decorate it, and make a walk through the garden extremely pleasant. A blooming oasis at the intersection of paths in the garden will certainly make you pause and admire the natural harmony.
An alpine hill will perfectly complement a landscape with a boring slope, on which it is difficult to place your favorite beds.
However, in the courtyard of a private house, another purpose of a flower garden also appears: it can level out or hide some defects in the area, buildings, and emphasize the functionality of a particular area. For example, a flowerbed in front of a fence will distract attention from an unassuming fence, while climbing or tall plants in the form of a hedge can completely hide it from view. But if the fence is beautiful in itself, flowers will add grace to it.
Living plants look expressive against the background of buildings - it’s a good idea to designate any building in the courtyard of a private house with at least a small flowering composition. For example, an esthete car owner will be pleased to take his “iron horse” out to a tidy area near the garage, decorated with a bright flower bed, and a mini-flower bed in a tire hanging on the wall of the building will be evidence that a car lives in it.
Many private yards have a structure called a septic tank. A small flower bed in a container, which can be rearranged if necessary, will help decorate its nondescript lid.
What kind of flower beds can there be?
Having figured out which places in the courtyard of a private house are suitable for creating flower beds, you need to decide on the type, shape, and materials for their arrangement.
Type and shape of flower beds on the site
Flowerbeds can be very different in appearance and shape. It is worth mentioning here what is the difference between the first and the second: novice “garden designers” often do not imagine this, considering these terms to be synonyms. In fact, a flowerbed is usually called a flowering composition that has rigid boundaries of a regular geometric shape, slightly raised above the level of the surrounding ground.
A regular flower bed requires constant care
Experts distinguish two types:
- Regular. They are characterized by a selection of low specimens that bloom at the same time, strict, clear lines floral pattern. To ensure this, careful constant care of the plantings is required, which is beyond the capabilities of a novice gardener.
- Irregular. They are more often found on individual farmsteads and dachas. They are usually filled with long-flowering plants of the same variety, or various species with staggered flowering periods, thereby ensuring a decorative composition throughout the season.
Similar scales are good for a spacious yard
There are many varieties of flower beds, differing in size and shape. When choosing the parameters of a blooming island, you should focus on the general style and size of your property. Obviously, in a yard with a small area, an excessively large flower bed will look out of place.
As for the shape, it is better for beginners to opt for simple geometry. After looking at a few photos, you can make sure that flower beds are round, square, rectangular, and indeed any simple configuration can look great.
Corner flower beds deserve special attention, as they fit perfectly into the space between the house and the garage, between the porch and the wall of the building, and so on.
High flower beds allow you to successfully decorate your yard while occupying a small area. The highlight of the garden or local area can be a structure made of gabions.
Common types of flower beds
Flower garden - more general concept, which also includes other types:
- mixborders,
- discounts,
- flower borders,
- rockeries,
- alpine slides.
Compositions with shrubs
Mixborders. These are compositions of arbitrary shape, which can contain any types of plants, including trees, shrubs, vines, annuals, perennials with different flowering periods and colors. They can decorate almost any corner of the yard, the main thing is to choose the right composition of species.
Discounts. Long flower beds in the form of a strip from half to one and a half meters wide, where up to 3-4 types of ornamental plants are planted in even rows. In fact, they are not much different from regular rectangular flower beds; they look good in spacious areas among green lawns.
Flower borders. Narrow (up to half a meter) ribbons of low-growing flowers, often of one type. They are usually used as an edging for other flower beds, and as a frame for paths in the garden.
Rockeries, alpine slides. These spectacular free-form rocky gardens, recreating a mesmerizing mountain landscape in miniature, can be laid out where capricious specimens will not take root. When decorating private homes, undemanding conifers, annuals and perennials, and ground covers are used.
When you start landscaping your yard for the first time, you should practice creating flower beds of simple geometric shapes and borders from unpretentious plants with your own hands. Having mastered the skills and having artistic inclinations, you can, if desired, move on to creating magnificent, fancy flower beds, like the masters make.
Material for making impressive flower beds
Even in private courtyards, flower beds that do not have a fence, or are fenced in with whatever is at hand, can look too unassuming and unfinished. Having chosen the look and shape for your creation, you should think about a worthy frame for it. Perhaps it will be the already mentioned flower border or specially made flower bed structures made of stone, brick, and other materials.
With even a little construction skills, making such structures is quite simple. But for some, a simpler task will be to arrange wooden flower beds in the yard. Depending on the style, this option can be very practical. The charming compositions in the photo below convince of this.
Stone border
If wicker weaving is your favorite hobby, making such a cute “basket” will not be difficult.
It is not difficult to build a structure from concrete blocks, turning the gray, dull material into an elegant flower garden near the house in a private yard.
Often, owners of dachas and garden plots use strips of old slate. This approach can also be welcomed, but it should be remembered that cuts of sheets of this material are quite dangerous, so it is better to build slate side walls into a wooden frame, as in the photo below.
If we are talking about available materials, we cannot ignore flower beds made from tires, which at one time became popular due to their cheap cost and the ability to use scraps. It cannot be said that it is painted in a flashy bright color a tire laid on the lawn and filled with flowers looks aesthetically pleasing. But if you use your imagination, you can make quite decent and original frames for flowers from waste material.
Another example of using scrap materials for a creative flower garden is old barrels. The cost is zero, and the view is inimitable.
Making flower beds and flower beds near the house with your own hands
Having decided on the type, shape and size of the future blooming oasis, all that remains is to properly arrange the flower bed in the place chosen for this. However, it is too early to rush there with a shovel and rake. There is still some preparatory work to be done: design development, selection of planting material, soil preparation.
The beginning of the beginning - planning
Any gardener, looking at the luxurious flowering islands in the parks in the photo or in reality, “tryes” them on own home. But thoughtlessly transferring landscaping elements into a private yard can result in disappointment if you don’t know how to plan a flower garden in front of the house or in another suitable place. To begin with, this should be done on paper approximately in this order:
- Draw a scale sketch of the location where the colorful island will be located.
- Draw contours on the sketch, also observing the scale.
- Determine which buildings or plantings will become the background, what their color and texture are.
- Indicate the areas where soloist plants and complementary specimens will be planted.
- Outline the color scheme of these zones, taking into account the compatibility of colors.
This is how a plan is drawn
In order for a composition created with your own hands to look harmonious and surprise everyone with its perfection, it is useful to familiarize yourself with the basics of color. Colors and their combinations not only satisfy people’s aesthetic needs, but also have a psycho-emotional, even therapeutic effect on others. They can invigorate, calm, give a state of serenity or cause unconscious irritation and aggressiveness.
Combination and proximity of colors
Nature itself suggests good combinations of shades: if you grow pansies, take a closer look at them - this is where the color scheme is clearly presented!
For the first experiments, it is worth remembering the following:
- Cool shades (green, purple, dark blue) are good for creating a general background.
- Dominant plants should be distinguished by warm tones (red, yellow, orange), which attract the eye.
- Contrasting combinations evoke a surge of strength, and smooth play of tones pacify.
- Monotony, dullness, as well as excessive variegation, do not suit a flower garden.
Pansies - color in nature
Miscalculations when planning flower beds
When thinking about the design of a flowerbed in the courtyard of a private house for decoration with your own hands, you need to try to avoid common mistakes. The main mistakes when planning plantings:
- The choice of location for a flower garden is based only on the consideration that it should cover an unsightly area, without taking into account the nature of the soil and microclimate in this area.
- Excessively large flower bed sizes. This makes it out of place in a small yard and makes it much more difficult to care for the plantings located in the center of the composition.
- Forming a flower bed in the tree trunk. This is the sin of owners of small areas who strive to make maximum use of space. The soil under fruit trees is practically unsuitable for beautifully flowering plants. As an option, you can consider building a small rock garden in such a place.
- Too crowded plantings, without taking into account the upcoming growth. When placing your green friends, you need to focus on the size of adult plants. This is doubly important for perennials: they grow over two or even three seasons.
- A thoughtless, impulsive approach to the selection of seedlings. It is unwise to purchase copies that simply attracted attention. When deciding what to plant in a flowerbed, it is necessary to evaluate whether the “new residents” will combine with the plants already established in the courtyard of a private house, and whether the growing conditions here are suitable for newcomers. You also need to remember that there are antagonistic plants. For example, a rose with its wonderful aroma will not please a carnation as its neighbor.
Video: Mistakes when designing flower beds with your own hands
The nuances of selecting and planting plants in a flower garden
It is better to make the basis of a flower arrangement in a flower bed from beautiful perennials, placing in the center (in the background in a one-way view) the tallest or most beautiful specimens - they are called dominant or soloists. Annuals planted annually will make an effective addition. When selecting and planting flowers, you should adhere to the intended plan, diagram and follow a few more rules:
- When forming a flower bed in the yard, plant the plants in increasing order from the perimeter to the center.
- Choose species and varieties that match in color, have similar requirements for growing conditions, and get along well with each other.
- Consider the decorative period so that when some specimens fade, the buds of their neighbors begin to open. In this way it is organized continuous flowering. Another option would be to plant plants that bloom all summer.
- Pay attention to the decorative qualities of the leaves so that they continue to decorate your creation after flowering has ended.
- If possible, do not include varieties that require staking or support.
- Maintain optimal planting density. If plants are planted densely around the perimeter and sparsely planted in the center, this adds to the attractiveness.
Central flower bed
It is impossible to immediately master all the subtleties of composing flowering compositions. For example, developing the correct patterns for flower beds near the house and on the plot requires knowledge and certain experience. If you don’t have any, you shouldn’t be sad: you can see some options for simple schemes in the photo.
Composition of annuals
Do flower gardens need decorations?
Admiring the blooming result of their labors, some people think about how to further decorate the flowerbed and make it even more beautiful. It's important not to overdo it here. If you make the right flower arrangement, build a beautiful fence in harmony with it from natural or improvised materials, this will be enough. You can also install garden lanterns so that the flowers are mysteriously illuminated in the evening, decorating the yard.
In some cases, if there are free areas of soil between the plants, it is a good idea to fill them with wood chips, screenings, and fine gravel. But it’s worth arguing about garden figurines. They can be very different, but try not to offend your green friends by being next to colorful bad taste.
From all that has been said, the obvious conclusion is that amateur garden design is not an easy task. And yet, beautifully decorating a flower bed near the house with your own hands is within the power of almost everyone. Show enthusiasm, charge yourself with positivity, turn on your imagination, punctually follow the necessary recommendations - the result will be a unique flowering island in your yard.
And if you cannot rely on your own knowledge, creativity, sense of proportion, then the best way out is to entrust your yard to specialists.
It’s hard to imagine a garden without flowers. Flower beds decorate landscape design, thereby hiding its shortcomings and emphasizing its main advantages. That is why flower beds should occupy an honorable and most prominent place on the site. In order for DIY flower beds to look beautiful in any weather, you need to take into account and observe a lot important nuances. There are four general rules, helping to create an attractive flower garden.
- Plants that are taller should always be planted closer to the center.
- Color combinations should be in harmony.
- It is better to plant flowers sparsely in the center, but densely along the edges.
- When designing, it is better to avoid complex patterns; beauty is in simplicity.
By observing these simple nuances, you can very easily give the area freshness and uniqueness. You don't have to choose only colors that go together. Contrasting flowers will look good in one composition. Most try to create flower beds that match all the buildings on the site.
A variant of a mixborder in the shade, the main tone is set by hostas and coleus.
What should you pay attention to before designing any flower bed?
Before you start creating beautiful flower beds, you need to remember the correct soil, lighting, and humidity. In most cases it depends on the type of flowers planted. There are certain guidelines that need to be followed.
Lighting should be optimal for all types of flowers planted, so that the plants are exposed to direct sunlight for at least seven hours a day. All plants must be light-loving.
Determine the type and acidity of the soil. For better growth and flowering, the acidity and type can be slightly adjusted or completely changed. To give it better aeration, you can add compost and sand. Use chalk to improve the acidified type. We must not forget about minerals, organic fertilizers. Add them to any type of substrate.
Water should not stagnate in the soil. Especially applies to melt water. If you do not follow a simple rule, putrefactive processes will arise in the tubers, rhizomes, and bulbs of perennial plants. In addition to putrefactive processes, root respiration of flowers will become difficult or, in the worst case, stop completely. 
What types of flower beds exist near the house?
Several flower beds can be placed on one plot, regardless of its size. All of them can be made in different styles. In this case, it is necessary to take into account their sizes. There is a rule of the golden ratio, which states that their dimensional ratio should be 3:5:8.
In general, there are several types of flower beds:
- . As stated above, the flower garden is made in compliance with the main rules, tall flowers are planted in the center and sparsely, and low ones are densely planted along the edges. The colors are in harmony with each other. She looks like this
- Curb. These are placed on the sides of the paths. Their color does not have to be monochromatic. Usually the color is selected depending on the landscape design or individual preferences of the owners.
- Monoclumba. Views like these prove that beauty lies in simplicity. A pleasant solid color can either stand out from other colors or harmonize with them.
- Flowerpot. They have become very popular due to the fact that they can be moved to different parts of the garden. They look beautiful almost anywhere.
- Regular. It is ideal for a large area with a small pond or fountain.
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Ideal for decorating a fence or home. This design shows all the creative nature of the residents.
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A clear stripe of various colors in a strict, often geometric, thoughtful form.
- Vertical. Such compositions can stand in the middle of the site or serve as a fence.
- Group. They combine completely different plants that are not similar to each other. If you follow the above rule that large plants should be in the center, then such plantings will decorate absolutely any area.
When choosing one type or another, consider first of all where the flowers will grow. Near the house, borders are most often planted or flowerpots are installed. And the vertical one will look best on the wall of the building. There are frequent cases of combining the two types. For example, curb and group. It looks especially attractive if the color varies. 
How to make a flower bed?
The composition should be higher than the rest of the landscape. Make it simply from soil or using various materials. For example, to create flower beds they use materials such as:
- natural stone;
- wooden boards;
- logs;
- bricks, fortan.
Using stone, they can create any pattern for a flower garden. Before you begin, draw or find diagrams of beautiful flower beds, then use them as a guide. Even a woman can easily cope with such work, because it does not require complex installation work.
When the shape and dimensions have been chosen, you need to lay out a small fence made of stones of the required height around the perimeter. The stones should fit very tightly against each other. Secure them for durability of the structure with cement mortar. Inside, remove a small layer of soil, up to about 15 centimeters. Fill the hole with sand, gravel or crushed stone. Now fill the stone building with soil and plant the plants.
Here are examples of how to beautifully decorate a flower garden using stone. 
A flower bed made of wooden boards will fit perfectly if there is a wooden house on the site or all selected boards need to be sanded. Afterwards, you must first cover them with sealant, then with varnish. Having chosen the desired shape, you need to drive pegs into the ground, and then install planks around the perimeter. The composition is created from the pegs themselves. To do this, they are simply driven into the ground close to each other.
Many people still have materials after construction, which raises the question of how to make flower bed made of logs? Making such a flower garden is quite easy if you follow all the steps and rules. The diameter of the logs should be approximately the same. The logs that will be at the bottom need to be cut lengthwise into ½ diameter. Afterwards you need to prepare the material to increase the height of the walls. The next sequence of actions is as follows:
- On one side, make a groove that exactly equals half the diameter.
- Make notches on both sides to connect the logs into crowns.
- At the site of the future flower bed, you need to remove about 15 cm of soil.
- Fill the hole with crushed stone.
- After preparation, the logs themselves must be treated with a special protective sealant. Lay the bottom logs first, and those with grooves across the top.
Brick compositions will look good on any land. In skillful hands, flower beds turn out to be both perfectly straight and curved.
Brick buildings must be installed on a solid concrete foundation. And if you plan to connect it to the walls of the house, then be sure to install waterproofing so as not to damage the wall.
So, when the surface of the base has dried well, start laying bricks. On the bottom row, leave a few seams unfilled. Because it is necessary to provide drainage holes. When laying, periodically check how level the walls are.
Borders for flower beds
A clear line of the flower bed near the house is half the success. In the photo gallery below there are a lot of possible options. Wooden: from the remains of beams, from bent tree trunks, wicker from branches, miniature likenesses - the stone is generally very beautiful, you can create the likeness of a stone stream along the flowerbed, use both huge boulders and small pebbles. Also used: different types of bricks, concrete, an impeccable line along it looks very beautiful, and an original border made of decorative cabbage.
The simplest ways to beautifully decorate a flower bed near your home
Many people don’t know how to beautifully decorate a flowerbed without making an effort or using a lot of material. There are several easiest ways.
- Use an earthen mound to create a small hill
- Flower beds should not blend into the ground.
- Then shape the area using a ruler or string.
- Now plant the plants.
To prevent the flower garden from becoming overgrown with other plants, weeds or grass from the city, it must be fenced off.
To fence it off, pour gravel along the edges and place heavy stones on top. Compositions that are fenced with a small stone border look very aesthetically pleasing.
Another simple way to decorate a flower bed: place flower pots on top of each other to hold them together, secure with glue.
The monoflower is considered one of the simplest. It adds style and elegance to the space. One type of flower needs to be planted on a small hill, fenced with stones.
With such simple flower beds you can plant the entire plot. The main thing is to fence them off from each other with crushed stone, stone chips, and small cobblestones.
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When all the large-scale work on the site is completed - the house is erected, built, the trees are planted, the paths are laid, and the areas are paved, it is time to think about the design of the flower beds at the dacha in order to give your own country property a complete look. A lived-in, cozy hacienda is unthinkable without beautiful flower beds, creating the mood and joyful feeling of country life.
Types of country flower beds
Flowerbed is the general name for all flower or decorative plantings, fenced or having a clear shape.
- Types of flower beds: free (landscape), regular (strictly shaped, symmetrically designed), annuals, perennials, including ornamental trees, shrubs, various.
- Mixborder is an elongated flower bed along paths, enclosing structures, where plants are selected in height from smaller to taller, and according to flowering time so as to look impressive for most of the growing season.
- Parterre is an extensive flower garden of strict shape (square, rectangle), occupying a central place in the garden, where plants are planted in contrasting patterns.
- Rabatka is a strip bordering paths where there are relatively low flowering plants create a clearly defined ornament.
- – involves planning flower beds from the gate to the entrance of the house, with the presence of tapeworms (single plants that attract attention) to create a beautiful appearance of the cottage, visible from the driveways.
When choosing plants for flower beds, take into account the timing of flowering so that some flowers replace others and the flower bed is not empty. Keep in mind that each plant variety has its own “early birds” and “night owls”, i.e. varieties that will bloom later with a difference of 2-3 weeks.
An important point to consider when laying out a flower bed is its visibility. Some flower beds assume a circular appearance, i.e. they are equally impressive from several viewpoints. Planar flower beds look better from elevated positions and are also interesting for use on terraces. Vertically and horizontally oriented flower beds emphasize the necessary dominants, visually expand the space or add intimacy to the dacha corner.
Where to start
Having decided to create a decorative corner - a flower bed - in your garden plot, you need to perform several sequential operations:
- Collect illustrative material (magazines with flower bed diagrams, websites on landscape design, gardening forums on the Internet will help with this).
- Decide on desires and capabilities (what plants you like, what will survive in a particular climate, what are the financial resources allocated for the purchase of planting material).
Self-cultivation will help reduce financial costs required quantity specimens from seeds. This process takes more time, but does not put a strain on the family wallet, especially if the area of the flower beds is large and the number of plants approaches a hundred or more.
- Lay out a flowerbed, think about its fencing (stone, wood, concrete, plastic, earthen ditch separating the flower bed from the lawn).
- Prepare the land for planting (add the necessary soil components, apply the required fertilizers).
- Create a diagram (your own sketch) taking into account the dimensions (height and width) of the plants.
- Decide how the flowerbed will be planted - for growth or so that it looks good on the first day. Calculate planting density.
- Place pots with plants in the area to check the correctness and harmony of their placement not on paper, but visually.
- Plant and water. Mulch open areas of soil between plants, leaving clean soil 10-15 cm from the stems (trunks).
- Support the survival rate of plants (provide the necessary watering, shading if the weather is very hot).
- Enjoy the result and start making new plans.
Which plants to choose
In order for the flower garden to charm guests and delight the family for a long time (for example, peonies and clematis grow in one place for several decades), select only climate-resistant, unpretentious plants. Having planted specimens that you really like, but require care and shelter and do not tolerate Russian winters well, you will carefully care for them.
However, after 3-5 years, when you remove dead bushes that did not survive the winter in the spring, you will realize that you no longer have the strength to care for the whims. At this moment you will come to the decision to replace all the “southerners” with zoned ones ornamental plants. So why not immediately pay attention to those flowers that feel good in your climate?
The initial selection of suitable planting material for flower beds, varieties and species that are resistant to the climatic conditions of the region has many advantages:
- Easy maintenance (no need to build serious winter shelters).
- Preservation of one’s own nervous system (no worries about poorly covered or poorly timed open plants, fear of damping off, getting wet, damage by moles or mice that like to live under shelters in winter).
- Lower financial costs (there are no costs for purchasing new replacement plants).
- Labor costs are reduced (there is no annual digging up of “dead” specimens and planting new ones in their place).
- More neat appearance flower beds in winter (flat snowy spaces with bushes covered with frost or snow caps look much more presentable than wooden boxes or arc structures throughout the area).
Every passionate summer resident who feels like a landscape designer of a particular plot needs a rest. Without time to admire your own achievements, there will be no pleasure from the task completed and country life in general. Therefore, plant more unpretentious plants, they will allow you to enjoy the surrounding beauty more.
Fashion trends and non-standard solutions
Modern landscape design offers a wide variety of compositions for flower beds in a suburban area. The main direction is “harmony in simplicity.” There are several ways to implement it.
| Type of design | Solution |
| Monochrome (use of a single color scheme) | Greens in different shades: silver-green, blue-green, dark green, lemon green |
| Green-white: tree hydrangea, derain, astilbe, white peonies, white-flowered primrose, jasmine, spotted-leaved hosta, spirea vangutta, mock orange | |
| Green-pink: peonies, roses, clematis, astilbe, heuchera, chrysanthemums, bergenia | |
| Red: red-leaved maples, ornamental barberries, heucheras | |
| Monoformity (selection of planted plants of a single shape) | A combination of plants with a round crown in one flower bed: spherical willow, spherical thuja, round spirea, large-leaved hydrangea bushes, roses on a trunk, rounded forms of herbaceous plants (gray fescue) |
| Contrast (choosing plants with flowers of rich colors) | Blue-yellow (delphinium, irises, violas, suitable varieties of marigolds, nasturtiums, yellow daylilies) |
| Blue-pink (roses and framed with lavender, verbena, matthiola bicorne) |
Another interesting technique is to create vertical flower beds. Strengthening flower containers on the walls of buildings and planting bright annuals in them will decorate boring corners of the garden, and creating columns with petunias placed throughout the height will add originality and rich aroma, turning a flat area into a luxurious voluminous flower garden. Clematis planted near an old tree (species can be used as it is more resistant to unfavorable conditions) will cover the trunk with a wave of flowers, delighting the summer resident with continuous flowering for 3 months.
Decorative design of flower beds in a summer cottage
Landscape design rules allow you to decorate flower beds with a variety of decorations. Almost any of them, with some effort, can be done with your own hands. A similar move is especially appropriate when arranging central flower beds, where decorative element visible from all sides, as well as “secret corners” for relaxation, hidden from direct view and full of intimate charm.
The following is often used as the basis around which the flowerbed composition is formed:
- mosaic balls, birdbaths, sundial;
- wooden snags, carts, logs, stumps, wheels;
- sculptures;
- mirrors;
- trellises, arches, figured structures;
- plants with a dense crown, trimmed in the form of various figures (topiary art).
Each of these elements plays a solo role in the flowerbed. Plants of different sizes create a common background, and some specimens (for example, climbing roses) often act as a duet with the decorations.
In addition to the central elements, a major role in the decorative design of flower beds is played by:
- fencing;
- solar-powered lamps;
- mulching with colored wood chips and different shades of gravel.
In the latter case, alternating multi-colored wavy stripes can emphasize the interesting shape of a flower bed or present a bright plant in an advantageous way.
Combination of beautiful and useful
Recently in landscape design It has become fashionable to use them instead of flower beds in a regular style. Placing an artistically laid out vegetable garden close to your home allows you to enjoy a beautiful view, concentrated aromas of herbs and save time (everything you need for a salad is nearby).
In the original (French royal vegetable garden), the framing of the beds was made of trimmed boxwood. In our climate, this plant requires shelter for the winter, but even this does not guarantee survival. And its “deputy”, privet, will require a lot of time for cutting in order to maintain the border in perfect shape.
Therefore, when laying out flower beds of the “ornamental vegetable garden” type, it is better to limit yourself to creating raised beds from timber, thick processed boards with a platband along the upper perimeter, or laying out the walls from slab stone.
Having laid the earthen composition inside the beds, all that remains is to plant garden plants in even rows or geometric patterns. A contrasting pattern can be obtained by arranging different varieties of lettuce (green, red, lemon flowers), purple and green basil, varieties of ornamental cabbage (it can be eaten), dividing the space into cells, using lines of radishes or dill as a border.
Nowadays, many people have a dacha, and it doesn’t matter whether it is close to the city or several hundred kilometers away, people still willingly go there in the summer to relax. After all, a house outside the city is not only a place where you can hide from the bustle of the city.
A dacha is a reason to relax, barbecue, forget about problems at work and enjoy nature and clean air. It’s not enough to just buy a house and visit there from time to time. It is important to make this space comfortable, and what can give greater aesthetic pleasure than flowers?
Arranging and planning a flower bed is not an easy task, which requires a special approach and effort. From this article you will learn how to make your garden space even more pleasant and create your own oasis in front of the window.
Types of flower garden layouts
Nowadays the most popular layout is called “curb”. It is a line, the dimensions of which vary depending on your desire. You can make a short border that covers the area near the porch, and in this way you can extend it around the entire house, creating a beautiful effect of “a house drowning in flowers.”
Borders are also good for enclosing space on a site: for example, you need to separate a gazebo and a garden, or make garden paths more interesting. Gardeners are happy to create a border line along the fence, especially if it is wooden and low.
Near the window you can make a shaped flower bed: round, oval, rectangular, or even completely arbitrary in shape - it all depends on your imagination.
It is better to make such flower beds on small hills, which can be created artificially (an embankment of crushed stone, stones, peat or just earth).
Various decorations are often placed among flowers, ranging from lanterns to garden sculptures.
Flower beds placed in vases or any household items that no one has needed for a long time look quite impressive. For example, these could be tires, wooden fruit boxes, oak barrels with rims, where wine was once poured and stored. Large majestic flowerpots will look chic and rich at the entrance if you place them on the sides of the porch. A similar flower garden layout is suitable for those places where there is no open ground (the space next to the gazebo or under the windows of houses is often concreted).
Now the style that conquered France in the 19th century is gaining popularity. These are the so-called “flower gardens,” a type of flower bed in which flowers are planted instead of fences, creating a border and giving the flower bed its shape.
With the help of things that you dig up in your attic or in an old barn, you can create a flower garden in the “country” style (translated from English as “country”) on your site. In this way, you can place a cart right in front of the window, from which shoots of clematis or honeysuckle will descend picturesquely.
Maybe someone will dig up a car body or an old boat with a rotten bottom. In any case, do not rush to throw away all these things, but rather use them to accomplish your goals. design ideas and fantasies.
You can also cover the wall of the house with a chain-link mesh or put up long sticks along which sweet peas or morning glory will then climb. Many create living wall from the Zabella grape, which looks very attractive during its flowering period.
A good idea for creating a flower garden in front of the house is a front garden in which they will be grouped various types flowers and plants.
The design of the flower garden in front of the house photo will help you decide what layout you will choose for yourself.
Important points when planning a flower garden in front of the house
So, if you decide to create beautiful flower bed, full of fragrant flowers, it is important to consider some points that will make your task easier and help you not get confused when planning.
If you don’t have any ideas at all, you can look at the design of the flower garden in front of the house photo and adopt the layout proposed by experienced gardeners and designers for your summer cottage.
In fact, it is not so easy to create the perfect flower garden from scratch that will meet all your requirements.
Advice! A good solution would be to look at different layouts and partially select the details you like from each. And then, like puzzles, assemble your flower garden.
How to keep a flower garden beautiful and tidy?
Caring for a flower garden in the future is no less complicated than creating it. You need to follow some tips, and then your flowerbed will be in perfect condition.
After planting flowers, fertilizers must be added to the soil of the flower bed. The most common and cheap option(but very effective) - cow or horse manure.
It is diluted at a ratio of 1:3. It is very important to prepare the mixture correctly, otherwise concentrated or diluted manure in too small a proportion can harm the flowers and burn their leaves and roots. You can get it on farms or in places where cows graze.
No less common fertilizers are phosphorus, potassium, and nitrogen. They can be purchased at gardening stores.
You can also find fertilizers at home:
- Ash that remains in the stove. In many dachas, the heating system is a traditional stove. After heating the firebox several times, collect the ash in a container and sprinkle a thin layer on the surface of the flowerbed.
- Tea leaves, which can be poured into a separate container after each tea party, and then, when you have accumulated a sufficient amount, sprinkle the soil in the flowerbed.
It is important to weed the flower garden on time.
Weeds not only spoil the appearance of the flowerbed, but also take up a lot of nutrients from the soil, which are subsequently lacking in the crops that you planted.
Pay attention to watering, take into account the moisture-loving nature of the plants. Great option There will be drip irrigation.
Spray gun on site
During frosts and cold nights, the flower garden should be covered with film or non-woven covering material so that heat-loving plants do not die.
The design of a flower garden in front of the house photo can also help you decide color scheme. Beautiful combinations recommended by designers:
- Yellow – cold green – red (hosta, rudbeckia, nasturtium).
- Purple - red - pink (sedum, lavender, sage, cloves).
- Burgundy - yellow - blue (primrose, yellow calendula, forget-me-not, bluebell).
It is worth knowing that if you are going to make a flower garden in a shaded place, you should not risk planting anthuriums, coreopsis, heleniums, monardas and rudbeckias there.
You risk not getting the desired flowering and creating uncomfortable conditions for the plant; it will only suffer and twist the stem in the hope of finding more sunlight. The same goes for plants that love shade. These are hosta, cladium, geranium, impatience, arizema, hellebore and tiarella. Their leaves and flowers will fade very much under the bright scorching sun.
If you are not sure about enough shade or light in your area, it is better to choose unpretentious plants, such as:
- yarrows of different varieties;
- common crocus;
- calendula;
- muscari;
- daffodils;
- aquilegia;
- astilbe.
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